A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940

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  Night Nurse (1931)

  Director: William A. Wellman. Based on the novel by Dora Macy. Adaptation: Oliver H. P. Garrett. Photography: Barney McGill. Editor: Edward M. McDermott. Production: Warner Bros. Distribution: Warner Bros., Vitaphone. Release date: July 16, 1931. Running time: 72 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Lora Hart), Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, Blanche Friderici, Charlotte Merriam, Charles Winninger, Edward J. Nugent, Vera Lewis, Ralf Harolde, Walter McGrail.

  The Miracle Woman (1931)

  Producer: Harry Cohn. Director: Frank Capra. Based on the play Bless You, Sister by John Meehan and Robert Riskin. Adaptation: Jo Swerling. Photography: Joseph Walker. Editor: Maurice Wright. Production and distribution: Columbia (Frank Capra Productions received production credit). Release date: July 20, 1931. Running time: 90 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Florence Fallon), David Manners, Sam Hardy, Beryl Mercer, Russell Hopton, Charles Middleton, Eddie Boland, Thelma Hill.

  Forbidden (1932)

  Producer: Harry Cohn. Director: Frank Capra. Story: Frank Capra. Adaptation: Jo Swerling. Photography: Joseph Walker. Editor: Maurice Wright. Production and distribution: Columbia (Frank Capra Productions received production credit). Release date: January 9, 1932. Running time: 85 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Lulu), Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson, Thomas Jefferson, Myrna Fresholt, Charlotte Henry, Oliver Eckhardt.

  Shopworn (1932)

  Director: Nicholas Grinde. Story: Sarah Y. Mason. Screenplay: Jo Swerling, Robert Riskin. Photography: Joseph Walker. Editor: Gene Havlick. Production and distribution: Columbia. Release date: March 25, 1932. Running time: 72 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Kitty Lane), Regis Toomey, Zasu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield, Clara Blandick, Robert Alden, Oscar Apfel, Maud Turner Gordon, Albert Conti, James Durkin.

  So Big (1932)

  Director: William A. Wellman. Based on the novel by Edna Ferber. Adaptation: J. Grubb Alexander, Robert Lord. Photography: Sid Hickox. Editor: William Holmes. Production: Warner Bros. Distribution: Warner Bros., Vitaphone. Release date: April 30, 1932. Running time: 81 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Selina Peake De Jong), George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis, Mae Madison, Hardie Albright, Alan Hale, Earle Foxe, Robert Warwick, Dorothy Peterson, Noel Francis, Dick Winslow.

  The Purchase Price (1932)

  Director: William A. Wellman. Based on the novel The Mud Lark by Arthur Stringer. Adaptation: Robert Lord. Photography: Sid Hickox. Editor: William Holmes. Production: Warner Bros. Distribution: Warner Bros., Vitaphone. Release date: July 23, 1932. Running time: 68 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Joan Gordon), George Brent, Lyle Talbot, Hardie Albright, David Landau, Murray Kinnell, Leila Bennett.

  The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

  Director: Frank Capra. Based on the novel by Grace Zaring Stone. Screenplay: Edward Paramore. Photography: Sid Hickox. Editor: Edward Curtis. Production and distribution: Warner Bros. (Frank Capra Productions received production credit). Release date: January 6, 1933. Running time: 88 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Megan Davis), Nils Asther, Toshia Mori, Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon, Lucien Littlefield, Richard Loo, Helen Jerome Eddy, Emmett Corrigan.

  Ladies They Talk About (1933)

  Directors: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley. Based on the play by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles. Adaptation: Brown Holmes, William McGrath, Sidney Sutherland. Photography: John Seitz. Editor: Basil Wrangel. Production: Warner Bros. Distribution: Warner Bros., Vitaphone. Release date: February 4, 1933. Running time: 69 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Nan Taylor), Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Lillian Roth, Maud Eburne, Ruth Donnelly, Harold Huber, Robert McWade.

  Baby Face (1933)

  Director: Alfred E. Green. Story: Darryl F. Zanuck (as Mark Canfield). Screenplay: Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola. Photography: James Van Trees. Editor: Howard Bretherton. Production: Warner Bros. Distribution: Warner Bros., Vitaphone. Release date: July 1, 1933. Running time: 71 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Lily Powers), George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier, Henry Kolker, Margaret Lindsay, Arthur Hohl, John Wayne, Robert Barrat, Douglass Dumbrille, Theresa Harris.

  Ever in My Heart (1933)

  Executive producer: Hal B. Wallis. Director: Archie Mayo. Story: Beulah Marie Dix, Bertram Millhauser. Screenplay: Bertram Millhauser. Photography: Arthur Todd. Editor: Owen Marks. Production and distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: October 28, 1933. Running time: 68 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Mary Archer Wilbrandt), Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Laura Hope Crews, Frank Albertson, Ronnie Cosby, Clara Blandick, Willard Robertson, Nella Walker, Harry Beresford, Virginia Howell.

  Gambling Lady (1934)

  Associate producer: Robert Presnell Sr. Director: Archie Mayo. Story: Doris Malloy. Screenplay: Ralph Block, Doris Malloy. Photography: George Barnes. Editor: Harold McLernon. Production: Warner Bros. Distribution: Warner Bros., Vitaphone. Release date: March 31, 1934. Running time: 66 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Lady Lee), Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien, Claire Dodd, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Barrat, Arthur Vinton, Phillip Reed, Philip Faversham, Robert Elliott, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Willard Robertson, Huey White.

  A Lost Lady (1934)

  Producer: James Seymour. Directors: Alfred E. Green, Phil Rosen. Based on the novel by Willa Cather. Screenplay: Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola. Photography: Sid Hickox. Editor: Owen Marks. Production: Warner Bros. Distribution: First National, Vitaphone. Release date: September 29, 1934. Running time: 61 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Marian Ormsby Forrester), Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed, Hobart Cavanaugh, Henry Kolker, Rafaela Ottiano, Edward McWade, Walter Walker, Samuel S. Hinds, Willie Fung, Jameson Thomas.

  The Secret Bride (1934)

  Associate producer: Henry Blanke. Director: William Dieterle. Based on the play Concealment by Leonard Ide. Screenplay: Tom Buckingham, F. Hugh Herbert, Mary McCall Jr. Photography: Ernest Haller. Editor: Owen Marks. Production: Warner Bros. Distribution: Warner Bros., Vitaphone. Release date: December 22, 1934. Running time: 64 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Ruth Vincent), Warren William, Glenda Farrell, Grant Mitchell, Arthur Byron, Henry O’Neill, Douglass Dumbrille, Arthur Aylesworth, Willard Robertson, William B. Davidson, Russell Hicks, Vince Barnett.

  The Woman in Red (1935)

  Producer: Harry Joe Brown. Director: Robert Florey. Based on the novel North Shore by Wallace Irwin. Screenplay: Mary McCall Jr., Peter Milne. Photography: Sol Polito. Editor: Terry Morse. Production and distribution: First National. Release date: March 25, 1935. Running time: 68 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Shelby Barret Wyatt), Gene Raymond, Genevieve Tobin, John Eldredge, Phillip Reed, Dorothy Tree, Russell Hicks, Nella Walker, Claude Gillingwater, Doris Lloyd, Hale Hamilton, Edward Van Sloan, Forrester Harvey, Bill Elliott, Frederick Vogeding, Eleanor Wesselhoeft, Brandon Hurst.

  Red Salute (1935)

  Producer: Edward Small. Director: Sidney Lanfield. Story: Humphrey Pearson. Screenplay: Humphrey Pearson, Manuel Seff. Photography: Robert H. Planck. Editor: Grant Whytock. Production: Reliance (Edward Small Productions received production credit). Distribution: United Artists. Release date: September 13, 1935. Running time: 77 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Drue Van Allen), Robert Young, Hardie Albright, Cliff Edwards, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Jones, Paul Stanton, Purnell Pratt, Nella Walker, Arthur Vinton, Edward McWade, Henry Kolker, Allan Cavan, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Selmer Jackson, David Newell.

  Annie Oakley (1935)

  Associate producer: Cliff Reid. Director: George Stevens. Story: Joseph A. Fields, Ewart Adamson. Screenplay: Joel Sayre, John Twist. Photography: J. Roy Hunt, Harold Wenstrom. Editor: Jack Hively. Production and distribution: RKO Radio Pictures. Release date: November 15, 1935. Running time: 90 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Annie Oakley), Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Moroni Olsen, Pert Kelton, Andy Clyde, Chief Thunderbird, Margaret Armstrong, Delmar Watson, Adeline Craig.

  A Message to Garcia (1936)

  Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Director: George Marsh
all. Based on the book How I Carried the Message to Garcia by Lieutenant Andrew S. Rowan. Screenplay: W. P. Lipscomb, Gene Fowler. Photography: Rudolph Maté. Editor: Herbert Levy. Production and distribution: 20th Century–Fox (“A Darryl F. Zanuck Twentieth Century Production” received credit). Release date: April 10, 1936. Running time: 77 minutes. Cast: Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck (Raphaelita Maderos), John Boles, Alan Hale, Herbert Mundin, Mona Barrie, Enrique Acosta, Juan Torena, Martin Garralaga, Blanca Vischer, José Luis Tortosa, Lucio Villegas, Frederick Vogeding, Pat Moriarity, Octavio Giraud.

  The Bride Walks Out (1936)

  Producer: Edward Small. Director: Leigh Jason. Story: Howard Emmett Rogers. Screenplay: Philip G. Epstein, P. J. Wolfson. Photography: J. Roy Hunt. Editor: Arthur Roberts. Production and distribution: RKO Radio Pictures (“An Edward Small Production” received credit). Release date: July 10, 1936. Running time: 75 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Carolyn Martin), Gene Raymond, Robert Young, Ned Sparks, Helen Broderick, Willie Best, Robert Warwick, Billy Gilbert, Wade Boteler, Hattie McDaniel.

  His Brother’s Wife (1936)

  Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Story: George Auerbach. Screenplay: Leon Gordon, John Meehan. Photography: Oliver T. Marsh. Editor: Conrad A. Nervig. Production and distribution: Loew’s (“A W. S. Van Dyke Production” received credit). Release date: August 7, 1936. Running time: 90 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Rita Wilson Claybourne), Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt, Joseph Calleia, John Eldredge, Samuel S. Hinds, Phyllis Clare, Leonard Mudie, Jed Prouty, Pedro de Cordoba, Rafael Storm, William Stack, Edgar Edwards.

  Banjo on My Knee (1936)

  Executive producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Director: John Cromwell. Based on the novel by Harry Hamilton. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson. Photography: Ernest Palmer. Editor: Hanson Fritch. Production and distribution: 20th Century–Fox (“Darryl F. Zanuck in charge of production” received credit). Release date: December 11, 1936. Running time: 95 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Pearl Elliott Holley), Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Helen Westley, Walter Catlett, Tony Martin, Katherine DeMille, Victor Kilian, Minna Gombell, Spencer Charters, the Hall Johnson Choir, George Humbert, Hilda Vaughn, Cecil Weston, Louis Mason.

  The Plough and the Stars (1936)

  Associate producer: Cliff Reid. Director: John Ford. Based on the play by Sean O’Casey Screenplay: Dudley Nichols. Photography: Joseph H. August. Editor: George Hively. Production and distribution: RKO Radio Pictures. Release date: December 26, 1936. Running time: 78 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Nora Clitheroe), Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Denis O’Dea, Eileen Crowe, F. J. McCormick, Una O’Connor, Arthur Shields, Moroni Olsen, J. M. Kerrigan, Bonita Granville, Erin O’Brien-Moore, Neil Fitzgerald, Robert Homans, Brandon Hurst, Cyril McLaglen.

  Internes Can’t Take Money (1937)

  Producer: Benjamin Glazer. Director: Alfred Santell. Story: Max Brand. Screenplay: Rian James, Theodore Reeves. Photography: Theodor Sparkuhl. Editor: Doane Harrison. Production and distribution: Paramount. Release date: April 16, 1937. Running time: 78 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Janet Haley), Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan, Stanley Ridges, Lee Bowman, Barry Macollum, Irving Bacon, Steve Pendleton, Pierre Watkin, Charles Lane, James Bush, Nick Lukats, Anthony Nace, Fay Holden, Frank Bruno.

  This Is My Affair (1937)

  Producer: Kenneth Macgowan. Director: William A. Seiter. Screenplay: Allen Rivkin, Lamar Trotti. Photography: Robert Planck. Editor: Allen McNeil. Production and distribution: 20 Century–Fox (“Darryl F. Zanuck in charge of production” received credit). Release date: May 28, 1937. Running time: 101 minutes. Cast: Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck (Lil Duryea), Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, John Carradine, Douglas Fowley, Alan Dinehart, Sig Ruman, Robert McWade, Sidney Blackmer, Frank Conroy, Marjorie Weaver, J. C. Nugent, Tyler Brooke, Willard Robertson, Paul Hurst, Douglas Wood.

  Stella Dallas (1937)

  Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: King Vidor. Based on the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty. Dramatization: Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Gertrude Purcell. Screenplay: Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman. Photography: Rudolph Maté. Editor: Sherman Todd. Production: Howard Productions. Distribution: United Artists. Release date: August 5, 1937. Running time: 106 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas), John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O’Neil, Alan Hale, Marjorie Main, George Walcott, Ann Shoemaker, Tim Holt, Nella Walker, Bruce Satterlee, Jimmy Butler, Jack Egger, Dickie Jones.

  Breakfast for Two (1937)

  Producer: Edward Kaufman. Director: Alfred Santell. Based on the novel A Love Like That by David Garth. Screenplay: Charles Kaufman, Paul Yawitz, Viola Brothers Shore. Photography: J. Roy Hunt. Editor: George Hively. Production and distribution: RKO Radio Pictures. Release date: October 22, 1937. Running time: 67 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Valentine Ransome), Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore, Donald Meek, Etienne Girardot, Frank M. Thomas, Pierre Watkin.

  Always Goodbye (1938)

  Associate producer: Raymond Griffith. Director: Sidney Lanfield. Based on the film Gallant Lady by Gilbert Emery and Franc Rhodes. Screenplay: Kathryn Scola, Edith Skouras. Photography: Robert H. Planck. Editor: Robert L. Simpson. Production and distribution: 20 Century–Fox (“Darryl F. Zanuck in charge of production” received credit). Release date: July 1, 1938. Running time: 75 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Margot Weston), Herbert Marshall, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero, Lynn Bari, Binnie Barnes, Johnny Russell, Mary Forbes, Albert Conti, Marcelle Corday, Franklin Pangborn, Ben Welden, Eddie Conrad.

  The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

  Associate producer: P. J. Wolfson. Director: Leigh Jason. Story: Wilson Collison. Screenplay: Philip G. Epstein. Photography: Nicholas Musuraca. Editor: George Hively. Production and distribution: RKO Radio Pictures (“Pandro S. Berman in charge of production” received credit). Release date: October 21, 1938. Running time: 80 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Melsa Manton), Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Frances Mercer, Stanley Ridges, Whitney Bourne, Vickie Lester, Ann Evers, Catherine O’Quinn, Linda Perry, Eleanor Hansen, Hattie McDaniel, James Burke, Paul Guilfoyle, Penny Singleton, Leona Maricle, Kay Sutton, Miles Mander.

  Union Pacific (1939)

  Executive producer: William LeBaron. Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Based on the novel Trouble Shooter by Ernest Haycox. Adaptation: Jack Cunningham. Screenplay: Walter DeLeon, C. Gardner Sullivan, Jesse Lasky Jr. Photography: Victor Milner. Editor: Anne Bauchens. Production and distribution: Paramount. Release date: May 5, 1939. Running time: 135 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Mollie Monahan), Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy, Robert Barrat, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Ridges, Henry Kolker, Francis McDonald, Willard Robertson, Harold Goodwin, Evelyn Keyes, Richard Lane, William Haade, Regis Toomey, J. M. Kerrigan, Fuzzy Knight, Harry Woods, Lon Chaney Jr., Joseph Crehan, Julia Faye, Sheila Darcy.

  Golden Boy (1939)

  Producer: William Perlberg. Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Based on the play by Clifford Odets. Screenplay: Lewis Meltzer, Daniel Taradash, Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman. Photography: Nick Musuraca, Karl Freund. Editor: Otto Meyer. Production and distribution: Columbia (“A Rouben Mamoulian Production” received credit). Release date: September 5, 1939. Running time: 99 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Lorna Moon), Adolphe Menjou, William Holden, Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Calleia, Sam Levene, Edward Brophy, Beatrice Blinn, William H. Strauss, Don Beddoe.

  Remember the Night (1940)

  Executive producer: William LeBaron. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Screenplay: Preston Sturges. Photography: Ted Tetzlaff. Editor: Doane Harrison. Production and distribution: Paramount. Release date: January 19, 1940. Running time: 94 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Lee Leander), Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Willard Robertson, Sterling Holloway, Charles Waldron, Paul Guilfoyle, Charles Arnt, John Wray, Thomas W. Ross, Snowflake, Tom Kennedy, Georgia Caine, Virginia Brissac, Spencer Charters.

  The Lady Eve (1941)

  Executive producer: William LeBaron.
Director: Preston Sturges. Story: Monckton Hoffe. Screenplay: Preston Sturges. Photography: Victor Milner. Editor: Stuart Gilmore. Production and distribution: Paramount. Release date: March 21, 1941. Running time: 93 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Jean), Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper, Martha O’Driscoll, Janet Beecher, Robert Greig, Dora Clement, Luis Alberni.

  Meet John Doe (1941)

  Director: Frank Capra. Based on the short story “A Reputation” by Richard Connell. Screenplay: Robert Riskin. Photography: George Barnes. Editor: Daniel Mandell. Production: Frank Capra Productions. Distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: May 3, 1941. Running time: 123 minutes. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck (Ann Mitchell), Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod La Rocque, Irving Bacon, Regis Toomey, J. Farrell MacDonald, Warren Hymer, Harry Holman, Andrew Tombes.

  You Belong to Me (1941)

  Director: Wesley Ruggles. Story: Dalton Trumbo. Screenplay: Claude Binyon. Photography: Joseph Walker. Editor: Viola Lawrence. Production and distribution: Columbia. Release date: October 22, 1941. Running time: 94 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Helen Hunt), Henry Fonda, Edgar Buchanan, Roger Clark, Ruth Donnelly, Melville Cooper, Ralph Peters, Maud Eburne, Renie Riano, Ellen Lowe, Mary Treen, Gordon Jones, Fritz Feld, Paul Harvey.

  Ball of Fire (1941)

  Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Howard Hawks. Story: Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe. Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder. Photography: Gregg Toland. Editor: Daniel Mandell. Production: Samuel Goldwyn. Distribution: RKO Radio Pictures. Release date: December 2, 1941. Running time: 111 minutes. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck (Sugarpuss O’Shea), Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S. Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall, Leonid Kinskey, Richard Haydn, Aubrey Mather, Allen Jenkins, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, Ralph Peters, Kathleen Howard, Mary Field, Charles Lane, Charles Arnt.

 

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