Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Stanwyck was one of the most versatile and charismatic stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. Best known for her unforgettable ...

Does it truly feel like Christmas without a classic black and white movie? Everyone has fond memories of watching It’s A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street with their families during the ...

Stanwyck is often remembered for her versatility. Rightly so. As an expansive retrospective of her films runs this month and the next at the Bell Lightbox in Toronto, a range of styles impresses ...

Celebrity biographies are rarely as long and dense as Victoria Wilson's nearly 900-page tome about screen star Barbara Stanwyck (Volume 1, no less, ending right before World War II). Such ambitious ...

Sure, Stanwyck could play a bad-ass Vargas girl come to life, complete with a face and voice that exuded come-hither smokiness. But as the Belcourt retrospective demonstrates, she excelled at playing ...

A definitive new biography sheds light on the life of the former Ruby Stevens of Coney Island Stephen M. Silverman is the former founding editor of PEOPLE.com. He left PEOPLE in 2015. Tough-talking, ...

It’s a sure sight for sore eyes to see the name “Stanwyck” emblazoned on a cinematheque marquee. Then again, not everyone today may be familiar with this name — but the uninitiated have every reason ...

Though it belongs—or appears to belong—to the gutter-bound caste of celebrity biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940 puts one in a philosophical frame of mind. Author Victoria ...

She was one of the hardest working, most versatile actresses of the Golden Era of Hollywood, lauded by directors, costars and crew members for her professionalism and pleasant demeanor. During a time ...