Barbara Stanwyck — Actor (62)
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Forbidden (1932)
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Frank Capra actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Adolphe Menjou …
other title: Proibito / Sehnsucht ohne Ende …
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Bob, but also wants to marry Lulu.
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Crime of Passion (1956)
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Gerd Oswald actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Sterling Hayden …
other title: Delitto senza scampo / Das war Mord, Mr. Doyle …
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
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The Purchase Price (1932)
The Purchase Price
William A. Wellman actor: Barbara Stanwyck / George Brent …
other title: Il prezzo da pagare / Einsame Herzen …
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
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Union Pacific (1939)
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Cecil B. DeMille actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: La via dei giganti / Pacific Express …
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Blowing Wild (1953)
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Hugo Fregonese actor: Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Ballata selvaggia / Sangue da Terra …
Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.
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The Moonlighter (1953)
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Roy Rowland actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Fred MacMurray …
other title: Notturno selvaggio / Le Voleur de minuit
Wes Anderson is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they don't know what he looks like. Still, they break into the prison and lynch a hobo they think is Wes, while the actual culprit sneaks off to see his old flame, Rela, who has recently taken up with his straitlaced brother, Tom (William Ching). But Tom is envious of his outlaw brother, and he decides to join Wes in a life of crime.
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
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Peter Godfrey actor: Humphrey Bogart / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: La seconda signora Carroll / Die zwei Mrs. Carrolls …
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.
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The Lady Gambles (1949)
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Michael Gordon actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Robert Preston …
other title: La roulette / Spielfieber …
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
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Peter Godfrey actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Dennis Morgan …
other title: Il sergente e la signora / Weihnachten nach Maß …
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
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The Bride Walks Out (1936)
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Leigh Jason actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Gene Raymond …
other title: La forza dell'amore / Cásate y verás …
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
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Breakfast for Two (1937)
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Alfred Santell actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Herbert Marshall …
other title: Déjeuner pour deux / Desayuno para dos
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.