Monday, May 08, 2023
Barbara Stanwyck, TV Star!
[“She wasn’t Pretty, and She Had No Figure, but Ay, What a Sexy Wench! Robert Siodmak and Ketti Frings’ The File on Thelma Jordan (1950), Starring Barbara Stanwyck, with Wendell Corey, Joan Tetzel, and Richard Rober.”]
By RM
monday, may 8, 2023 at 8:59:00 p.m. edt
If you’ve never seen her Loretta Young-like anthology series, The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961), it’s available near-complete on DVD (some episodes are “lost”). Very enjoyable, and she can play anything convincingly-a gun moll one week, a terrorized heroine the next. The only thing she’s awkward at are the introductions, where she’s just being herself! -RM
By RM
monday, may 8, 2023 at 11:26:00 p.m. edt
Here’s the Stanwyck series (the later episodes tend to be better- more mystery-suspense oriented- than the earlier ones): https://archive.org/details/the-barbara-stanwyck-show -RM
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Wench, come hither. Yes indeed, you could do worse.
Wench, come hither. Yes indeed, you could do worse.
Not a big Stanwyck fan--just one of those things.
--GRA
jerry pdx
Agree, she wasn't the kind of actress that stirred my loins the way others did, mostly I remember her for the role of Victoria Barkley on Big Valley, she had the kind of face that was good for a strong, independent type of woman. There are rumors that she was a lesbian, or at least swung both ways, but you could uncover rumors like that about every other actor or actress in Hollywood. If you are the slightest bit butch as a woman, less than uber masculine as a man or just private about your private life the gay mafia will fabricate gay rumors about you:
https://www.out.com/entertainment/today-gay-history/2013/07/16/today-gay-history-inimitable-barbara-stanwyck
Not an attractive woman, as NS said, but an emotional powerhouse with the right material. She's gut-wrenching at the finale of "Meet John Doe" (my favorite Capra movie), and "Jeopardy!" (1953) is an under-appreciated gem with a daring theme for its time- she has to "give the villain what he wants" in order to save her husband's life. -RM
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