Barbara Stanwyck : the miracle woman / Dan Callahan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callahan, Dan, 1977-

Series:

Hollywood legends series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990.

Stanwyck, Barbara.

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 252 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]

Contents:

Orphan of the Storm: The Locked Door, Mexicali Rose 5

The Capra Miracle: Ladies of Leisure, The Miracle Woman, Forbidden, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Meet John Doe 17

The Rough-and-Tumble Wellman Five: Night Nurse, So Big I, The Purchase Price, The Great Man's Lady, Lady of Burlesque 36

Pre-Code Sex: Illicit, Ten Cents a Dance, Shopworn, Ladies They Talk About, Baby Face 46

Drama Grab Bag, 1930s: Ever in My Heart, Gambling Lady, A Lost Lady, The Secret Bride, The Woman in Red, Red Salute, A Message to Garcia, Banjo on My Knee, Internes Can't Take Money, Always Goodbye 56

Screwball Stanwyck: The Bride Walks Out, Breakfast for Two, The Mad Miss Manton, You Belong to Me, Christmas in Connecticut, The Bride Wore Boots 67

Private Lives: Fay's End, Robert Taylor (His Brother's Wife, This is My Affair, The Night Walker), Robert Wagner 73

The Scratch and the Itch: Stella Dallas 81

Stage Stanwyck: The Plough and the Stars, Golden Boy, Clash by Night 99

Sturges/Stanwyck: Remember the Night, The Lady Eve 109

Stanwyck Soap and 1950s Drama: The Gay Sisters, Flesh and Fantasy, My Reputation, The Other Love, B. F.'s Daughter, East Side, West Side, To Please a Lady, Titanic, Executive Suite, These Wilder Years 121

Wilder/Stanwyck: Ball of Fire, Double Indemnity 134

Stanwyck Noir: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Cry Wolf, The Lady Gambles, The File on Thelma Jordan, No Man of Her Own, The Man with a Cloak, Jeopardy, Witness to Murder, Crime of Passion 151

Ordeal for Oscar: Sorry, Wrong Number 171

Two for Sirk: All I Desire, There's Always Tomorrow 178

Wild West Stanwyck: Annie Oakley, Union Pacific, California, The Furies, The Moonlighter, Blowing Wild, Cattle Queen of Montana, The Violent Men, Escape to Burma, The Maverick Queen, Trooper Hook, Forty Guns 186

Aftermath: The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Walk on the Wild Side, Roustabout, The Big Valley, The House That Would Not Die, A Taste of Evil, The Letters, The Thorn Birds, The Colbys 206.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-240) and index.

ISBN:

9781617031830

1617031836

9781617031847

1617031844

OCLC:

728102175