Barbara Stanwyck — Actor (62)
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Complicated Women (2003) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Complicated Women
director: Hugh Munro Neely actor: Jane Fonda / Frances Dee …
other title: Mujeres liberadas
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
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To Please a Lady (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
To Please a Lady
director: Clarence Brown actor: Clark Gable / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Indianapolis / Tod im Nacken …
Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain and boo him mercilessly. Independent, beautiful reporter Regina Forbes tries to interview him but is put off by his gruff chauvinism, and when Brannon's daredevil tactics cause the death of a fellow driver, he finds himself a pariah in the sport thanks to her articles. When she finds him earning money as a barnstorming daredevil driver hoping for a comeback, they begin to become mutually attracted.
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Trooper Hook (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Trooper Hook
director: Charles Marquis Warren actor: Joel McCrea / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Schiava degli Apaches / Vingança no coração …
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son.
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The Other Love (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Other Love
director: André de Toth actor: Barbara Stanwyck / David Niven …
other title: Orchidea bianca / Eine brennende Liebe …
Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attracted to Dr Tony Stanton she ignores his warnings of possibly fatal consequences unless she rests completely. Rather, she opts for a livelier time in Monte Carlo with dashing Paul Clermont.
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My Reputation (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
My Reputation
director: Curtis Bernhardt actor: Barbara Stanwyck / George Brent …
other title: Quella di cui si mormora / Le droit d'aimer …
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
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The Maverick Queen (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Maverick Queen
director: Joseph Kane actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Barry Sullivan …
other title: Il mio amante è un bandito / Até a Última Bala …
Kit Banion, a Virginia-born beauty and product of post-Civil War chaos, has settled in Wyoming and prospered; acquiring a fortune and a hotel, which, like the owner bears the name of "The Maverick Queen."---a title picked up by Kit in her earlier days in Wyoming when she took every unbranded steer and put her own brand on it. Love and trouble enter her life in the person of a Pinkerton detective posing as Jeff Younger, nephew of the infamous Younger brothers. He is dedicated to catching Butch Cassidy and the members of The Wild Bunch
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Variety Girl (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Variety Girl
director: George Marshall actor: Bing Crosby / Bob Hope …
other title: Rivista di stelle / Mädchen für Hollywood …
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
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California (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
California
director: John Farrow actor: Ray Milland / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Californie terre promise / Califórnia …
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
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The Great Man's Lady (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Great Man's Lady
director: William A. Wellman actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: L'ispiratrice / Una gran señora …
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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The Man with a Cloak (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Man with a Cloak
director: Fletcher Markle actor: Joseph Cotten / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: La casa del corvo / Der Mann in Schwarz …
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
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Golden Boy (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Golden Boy
director: Rouben Mamoulian actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: Passione / Sueño dorado
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.