Barbara Stanwyck
Highest Rated: 100% All I Desire (1953)
Lowest Rated: 40% The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Birthday: Jul 16, 1907
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Barbara Stanwyck was a dazzling study in contrasts. At times sultry and sweet; vulnerable and tough; comedic and dramatic; joyous and tragic - she simply was one of the greatest and most unique actresses during Hollywood's Golden Era. She could play whatever the part required, whether it was madcap glamour in comedies like "The Lady Eve" (1941), tough-minded feminism in weepies like "Stella Dallas" (1937), or poisonous vixens in noir classics like "Double Indemnity" (1944). A working-class girl from Brooklyn, she became one of the richest women in the United States due to wise investments. On a personal level, she was wildly popular among her peers, yet died a virtual recluse. Most astounding of all, she gave some of the most unforgettable performances in film history, yet never won an Academy Award for her work. Like many an aging glamour girl, she moved reluctantly into TV in the 1950s and 1960s when her movie career declined, but became an even bigger star than she had been before. Barbara Stanwyck - an American original and the true essence of the word "dame" - like no other actress of her generation enjoyed a long, varied career in film and television while remaining beloved by her millions of fans.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Letters | Geraldine Parkington (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Taste of Evil | Miriam Jennings (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | The House That Would Not Die | Ruth Bennett (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Night Walker | Irene Trent (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 56% | 56% | Roustabout | Maggie Morgan (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 60% | 57% | Walk on the Wild Side | Jo Courtney (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 80% | 34% | Crime of Passion | Kathy Ferguson Doyle (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Trooper Hook | Cora Sutliff (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 95% | 66% | Forty Guns | Jessica Drummond (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 86% | 83% | There's Always Tomorrow | Norma Miller Vale (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | These Wilder Years | Ann Dempster (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | The Violent Men | Martha Wilkinson (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escape to Burma | Gwen Moore (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | The Maverick Queen | Kit Banion (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Witness to Murder | Cheryl Draper (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 100% | 73% | Executive Suite | Julia O. Tredway (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Cattle Queen of Montana | Sierra Nevada Jones (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 100% | 74% | All I Desire | Naomi Murdoch (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 23% | Blowing Wild | Marina Conway (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | The Moonlighter | Rela (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Jeopardy | Helen Stilwin (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 91% | 66% | Titanic | Julia Sturges (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 69% | 70% | Clash by Night | Mae Doyle D'Amato (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | The Man With a Cloak | Lorna Bounty (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | No Man of Her Own |
Helen Ferguson/ |
- | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | To Please a Lady | Regina Forbes (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 90% | 80% | The Furies | Vance Jeffords (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | The File on Thelma Jordon | Thelma Jordon (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | The Lady Gambles | Joan Boothe (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 43% | 73% | East Side, West Side | Jessie Bourne (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 87% | 78% | Sorry, Wrong Number | Leona Stevenson (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | B.F.'s Daughter | Pauline `'Polly'` Fulton Brett (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Other Love | Karen Duncan (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Variety Girl | Unknown (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 40% | 67% | The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Sally Morton Carroll (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Cry Wolf | Sandra Marshall (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 9% | The Bride Wore Boots | Sally Warren (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | My Reputation | Jessica Drummond (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | California | Lily Bishop (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 100% | 74% | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | Martha Ivers (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 89% | 75% | Christmas in Connecticut | Elizabeth Lane (Character) | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Victory Caravan | Self | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Hollywood Canteen | Self | - | 1944 |
| 97% | 95% | Double Indemnity | Phyllis Dietrichson (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 91% | Flesh and Fantasy | Joan Stanley (Character) | - | 1943 |
| 67% | 51% | Lady of Burlesque | Deborah Hoople (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | The Great Man's Lady | Hannah Sempler (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Gay Sisters | Fiona Gaylord (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | You Belong to Me | Helen Hunt (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 91% | 83% | Meet John Doe | Ann Mitchell (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 100% | 87% | The Lady Eve |
Jean Harrington/ |
- | 1941 |
| 100% | 89% | Ball of Fire | Katherine 'Sugarpuss' O'Shea (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 100% | 84% | Remember the Night | Lee Leander (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 80% | 47% | Golden Boy | Lorna Moon (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 83% | 65% | Union Pacific | Mollie Monahan (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Always Goodbye | Margot Weston (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | The Mad Miss Manton | Melsa Manton (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Internes Can't Take Money | Janet Haley (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | This Is My Affair | Lil Duryea (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Breakfast for Two | Valentine Ransome (Character) | - | 1937 |
| 89% | 83% | Stella Dallas | Stella Dallas (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 11% | The Bride Walks Out | Carolyn Martin (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Banjo on My Knee | Pearl Elliott Holley (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 11% | His Brother's Wife | Rita Claybourne (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | The Plough and the Stars | Nora Clitheroe (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Message to Garcia | Senorita Raphaelita Maderos (Character) | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Woman in Red | Shelby Barret Wyatt (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret Bride | Ruth Vincent (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Annie Oakley | Annie Oakley (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Red Salute | Drue Van Allen (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Gambling Lady | Lady Lee (Character) | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Lost Lady | Marian (Character) | - | 1934 |
| 100% | 65% | The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Megan Davis (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Ladies They Talk About |
Nan Taylor/ |
- | 1933 |
| 100% | 81% | Baby Face | Lily Powers (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | Ever in My Heart | Mary Archer Wilbrandt (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Shopworn | Kitty Lane (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Forbidden | Lulu (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Purchase Price | Joan Gordon (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | So Big | Selina Peake De Jong (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Ten Cents a Dance | Barbara O'Neill (Character) | - | 1931 |
| 82% | 73% | Night Nurse | Lora Hart (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Illicit | Anne Vincent Ives (Character) | - | 1931 |
| 100% | 76% | The Miracle Woman | Florence 'Faith' Fallon (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | Ladies of Leisure | Kay Arnold (Character) | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | The Locked Door | Ann Carter (Character) | - | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mexicali Rose | Mexicali Rose (Character) | - | 1929 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thorn Birds | Mary Carson (Character) | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Valley | Victoria Barkley (Character) | 1965-1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961-1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962-1963 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joey Bishop Show | Dora (Guest Star) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Barbara Stanwyck Show | Host | 1960-1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theater | Unknown (Character) | 1958-1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Showcase 39 | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |