Barbara Stanwyck
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
Miracle Woman, The (1931)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy
- Barbara Stanwyck teams with dir. Frank Capra for this captivating pre–Code film about a preacher's daughter who becomes disillusioned by the…
Bitter Tea of General Yen, The (1933)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck
- Barbara Stanwyck plays an American missionary in Shanghai who comes to fall in love with her Chinese warlord abductor. Eloquent, sensual cinema with…
Baby Face (1933)
- Dir. Alfred E. Green
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent
- Pre–code Hollywood–era revenge drama that ruffled a few feathers in it's day, with Barbara Stanwyk playing a woman who decides to turn…
Annie Oakley (1935)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas…
- Sharpshooter Barbara Stanwyck joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for friendly rivalry with resident top gun Preston Foster. A romantic–comic…
Stella Dallas (1937)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles
- Definitive family melodrama in which Barbara Stanwyck compels as the social–climbing Stella, ultimately driven to painful self–knowledge…
Golden Boy (1939)
- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck
- William Holden, in his starring debut, plays a gifted youth who trades off a promising career as a musician to make it as a boxer.
Remember the Night (1940)
- Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi…
- Preston Sturges scripted this forgotten yuletide gem, about an assistant D.A. (MacMurray) who, feeling sorry for a glamorous jewel thief (Stanwyck),…
Lady Eve, The (1941)
- Dir. Preston Sturges
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn…
- One of the greatest Hollywood screwball comedies ever, this begins with naïve zoologist Henry Fonda (“Snakes are my life”) falling in love with…
Meet John Doe (1941)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan…
- Always partial to a ripe political parable, dir. Capra has Barbara Stanwyck leading hickster Gary Cooper around by the nose on a national goodwill…
Ball of Fire (1941)
- Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Dana Andrews…
- Screwball comedy with Gary Cooper playing a professor working hard on a new encyclopedia with his colleagues, who meets a nightclub performer…
Double Indemnity (1944)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
- The jewel in the crown of all things film noir has hardly dated an iota despite countless imitations. You'll savour each moment as…
Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin…
- Compelling noir with Barbara Stanwyck as the eponymous rich bitch whose dark secret threatens to topple her off her ivory tower.
Two Mrs Carrolls, The (1947)
- Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
- Bogie plays the baddie in this tense psychodrama – a mad artist who paints his female models before killing them. Barbara Stanwyk is the latest…
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
- Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster
- The great Barbara Stanwyck cracks up in this crime melodrama, an enjoyably overrought 'visualisation' of what was a gripping and highly successful…
Furies, The (1950)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Wendell Corey
- Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston lock horns in this colossal, psychosexual western, notable for its Oedipal complex and Freudian horseplay. Anthony…
Clash by Night (1952)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe
- Simmering jealousies in a run–down fishing village provide downbeat fare from the pen of Clifford Odets. With Barbara Stanwyk, Robert Ryan and…
Titanic (1953)
- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner…
- The infamous maritime disaster goes down here in grand Hollywood style, reflecting the onboard marital downswing of Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyk.…
All I Desire (1953)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck
- Template Sirk melodrama features Barbara Stanwyck as an ambitious stage actress who abandons her husband and family for Broadway, only to return when…
Witness to Murder (1954)
- Dir. Roy Rowland
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill…
- Film noir following a woman who doubts her sanity after witnessing a murder from her apartment window.
While the cops think she is just some…
Violent Men, The (1955)
- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn Ford, Edward G. Robinson…
- Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson transform a standard conflict of the land into a notable diversion.
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Bennett
- Resolute Sirk melodrama tugs at the heartstrings of a disenchanted family man whose chance encounter with an old–flame compels his children to…
Forty Guns (1957)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger…
- A surreal, somewhat lurid Western set in Tombstone, Arizona pits voluptuous land–baroness Stanwyck against the new, world–weary marshall…
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Jane Fonda, Capucine…
- A schlocky tease–fest with Laurence Harvey as a penniless cowboy who hitches to New Orleans with a drifter (Jane Fonda) searching for his…
Roustabout (1964)
- Dir. John Rich
Feat. Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck
- Relatively pleasing Elvis Presley vehicle. The King joins a carnival run by Barbara Stanwyk.
Thorn Birds, The (TV Mini-series) (1977)
- Dir. Daryl Duke
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck…
- Over–ambitious priest Richard Chamberlain is exiled to Australia, where he becomes embroiled in the dynastic power struggles of a wealthy…