Barbara Stanwyck

Actor, Film actor

1907 – 1990

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Who was Barbara Stanwyck?

Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.

Orphaned at the age of four and partially raised in foster homes, by 1944 Stanwyck had become the highest paid woman in the United States. She was nominated for the Academy Award four times, and won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. She was the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1981, the American Film Institute in 1987, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Screen Actors Guild. Stanwyck has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is ranked as the 11th greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

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Born
Jul 16, 1907
Brooklyn
Also known as
  • Ruby Catherine Stevens
  • Ruby Katherine Stevens
  • Missy
  • Babs
  • The Queen
  • Miss Barbara Stanwyck
  • Ruby Stevens
  • The Best Actress Who Never Won an Oscar
Parents
Siblings
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Protestant
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Erasmus Hall High School
Lived in
  • Brooklyn
Died
Jan 20, 1990
Santa Monica

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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