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Title | A life of Barbara Stanwyck |
Item type | Book |
Author(s) | Wilson, Victoria |
Edition | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition |
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Language | English |
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Physical description | volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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245 12 A life of Barbara Stanwyck /|cVictoria Wilson.
250 First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 |gVolume 1.|tSteel-true, 1907-1940.
520 "Fifteen years in the making, the first volume of the full
-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen
actresses whose career in pictures spanned four decades
beginning with the coming of sound--the first to delve
deeply into Stanwyck's rich, complex life and to explore
her extraordinary range of eighty-eight motion pictures,
many of them iconic; her work, her world, her Hollywood
through an American century. Frank Capra called her, "The
greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known." Yet
she was one of its most natural, timeless, and underrated
stars. Now Victoria Wilson, gives us the most complete
portrait we have yet had, or will have, of this
magnificent actresses, seen as the quintessential Brooklyn
girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock ...
her years in New York as dancer and Broadway star ... her
fraught marriage to Frank Fay, Broadway genius, who
influenced a generation of actors and comedians (among
them, Jack Benny and Stanwyck herself) ... the adoption of
a son, embattled from the outset; her partnership with the
"unfunny" Marx brother, Zeppo, together creating one of
the finest horse breeding farms in the west; her fairytale
romance and marriage to the younger Robert Taylor,
America's most sought-after male star ... Here is the
shaping of her career working with many of Hollywood's
most important directors: among them, Capra, King Vidor,
Cecil B. Demille, Preston Sturges, all set against the
times--the Depression, the rise of the unions, the coming
of World War II and a fast-evolving coming-of-age motion
picture industry. At the heart of the book, Stanwyck
herself--her strengths, her fears, her desires--how she
made use of the darkness in her soul, keeping it at bay in
her private life, transforming herself from shunned
outsider into one of Hollywood's--and America's--most
revered screen actresses. Written with full access to
Stanwyck's family, friends, colleagues, and never-before-
seen letters, journals and photographs"--|cProvided by
publisher.
520 A first volume of a full-scale portrait of the acclaimed
screen actress includes coverage of her years as a dancer
in New York, her fraught marriage to Broadway figure Frank
Fay, her partnership with Zeppo Marx and her marriage to
Robert Taylor.
600 10 Stanwyck, Barbara,|d1907-1990.
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