Ball of Fire: Barbara Stanwyck
January 14–February 26, 2022
Barbara Stanwyck was the screen archetype of the independent woman, with her wits about her, alert, and often on the make. This spotlight showcases many of her best roles and demonstrates her remarkable talent.
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Ball of Fire
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Baby Face
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Double Indemnity
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Films - Past
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Past Films
Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
United States, 1944Friday, January 14 7 PMView DetailsBarbara Stanwyck’s peroxide blonde is the archetype of the noir femme fatale in Billy Wilder’s gleefully cynical tale of murder and insurance fraud, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Stanwyck for Best Actress.
Baby Face
Alfred E. Green
United States, 1933Sunday, January 16 4:30 PMView DetailsBarbara Stanwyck sleeps her way to the top in this notorious pre-Code saga; shown here with the censored scenes reinstated, “it has to be seen to be not quite believed” (New York Times).
Stella Dallas
King Vidor
United States, 1937Saturday, January 22 4:30 PMView DetailsIn the ultimate 1930s “women’s weepie,” directed by King Vidor, Barbara Stanwyck sacrifices everything to give her daughter a shot at respectability, earning herself an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
The Lady Eve
Preston Sturges
United States, 1941Sunday, January 30 5 PMView DetailsStarring Barbara Stanwyck as a card sharp who plays naive ale heir Henry Fonda not once but twice, Preston Sturges’s comedy of innocence and experience is “one of the most liberatingly funny films ever made” (New Yorker).
Ball of Fire
Howard Hawks
United States, 194135mm Archival Print
Friday, February 4 7 PMView DetailsShowgirl Barbara Stanwyck gives naive encyclopedist Gary Cooper lessons in slang, and love, in Howard Hawks’s comedy classic, named to the National Film Registry in 2016.
Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
United States, 1944Saturday, February 12 6:30 PMView DetailsBarbara Stanwyck’s peroxide blonde is the archetype of the noir femme fatale in Billy Wilder’s gleefully cynical tale of murder and insurance fraud, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Stanwyck for Best Actress.
There’s Always Tomorrow
Douglas Sirk
United States, 1956Saturday, February 19 7 PMView DetailsBarbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray rekindle an old flame in Douglas Sirk’s melodrama that “demolishes the social fantasy of the ‘happy home’” (Time Out). Stanwyck beautifully conveys the ambivalence of an ethical person who wants what she can’t have.
Forty Guns
Samuel Fuller
United States, 1957Saturday, February 26 7 PMView DetailsSam Fuller’s wildly Freudian Western—brilliantly blatant in its conflation of sex, violence, and power and its “perversion” of the Western’s usual treatment of all three—stars Barbara Stanwyck as a “high-ridin’ woman with a whip.
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