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

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  The Great Man’s Lady (1942)

  Director: William A. Wellman. Based on the short story “The Human Side” by Viña Delmar. Story: Adela Rogers St. Johns, Seena Owen. Screenplay: W. L. River. Photography: William C. Mellor. Editor: Thomas Scott. Production and distribution: Paramount (“A William A. Wellman Production” received credit). Release date: April 29, 1942. Running time: 90 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Hannah Sempler), Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, K. T. Stevens, Thurston Hall, Lloyd Corrigan, Etta McDaniel, Frank M. Thomas, William B. Davidson, Lillian Yarbo, Helen Lynd, Mary Treen, Lucien Littlefield, John Hamilton, Fred “Snowflake” Toones.

  The Gay Sisters (1942)

  Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: Irving Rapper. Based on the novel by Stephen Longstreet. Screenplay: Lenore J. Coffee. Photography: Sol Polito. Editor: Warren Low. Production and distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: August 1, 1942. Running time: 108 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Fiona Gaylord), George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Gig Young, Nancy Coleman, Gene Lockhart, Larry Simms, Donald Woods, Grant Mitchell, William T. Orr, Anne Revere, Helene Thimig, George Lessey, Charles Waldron, Frank Reicher, David Clyde, Mary Thomas.

  Lady of Burlesque (1943)

  Producer: Hunt Stromberg. Director: William A. Wellman. Based on the novel The G-String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee. Screenplay: James Gunn. Photography: Robert de Grasse. Editor: James E. Newcom. Production: Hunt Stromberg Productions. Distribution: United Artists. Release date: May 1, 1943. Running time: 91 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Dixie Daisy), Michael O’Shea, Iris Adrian, Charles Dingle, J. Edward Bromberg, Frank Conroy, Victoria Faust, Gloria Dickson, Marion Martin, Frank Fenton, Stephanie Bachelor, Pinky Lee, Eddie Gordon, Janis Carter, Lou Lubin, Gerald Mohr, Bert Hanlon, Claire Carleton, George Chandler, Lee Trent, Don Lynn.

  Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

  Producer: Charles Boyer. Director: Julien Duvivier. Story: Ellis St. Joseph (segment 1), Oscar Wilde (segment 2), László Vadnay (segment 3). Screenplay: Ernest Pascal, Samuel Hoffenstein, Ellis St. Joseph. Photography: Stanley Cortez, Paul Ivano. Editor: Arthur Hilton. Production and distribution: Universal. Release date: October 29, 1943. Running time: 94 minutes. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck (Joan Stanley; segment 3), Betty Field, Robert Cummings, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Winninger, Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Benchley, Edgar Barrier, David Hoffman.

  Double Indemnity (1944)

  Director: Billy Wilder. Based on the novel by James M. Cain. Screenplay: Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler. Photography: John Seitz. Editor: Doane Harrison. Production and distribution: Paramount. Release date: April 24, 1944. Running time: 107 minutes. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck (Phyllis Dietrichson), Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, Fortunio Bonanova, John Philliber.

  Hollywood Canteen (1944)

  Executive producer: Jack Warner. Director: Delmer Daves. Screenplay: Delmer Daves. Photography: Bert Glennon. Editor: Christian Nyby. Production and distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: December 15, 1944. Running time: 124 minutes. Cast: the Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Kitty Carlisle, Jack Carson, Dane Clark, Joan Crawford, Helmut Dantine, Bette Davis, Faye Emerson, Victor Francen, John Garfield, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Hale, Paul Henreid, Robert Hutton, Andrea King, Joan Leslie, Peter Lorre, Ida Lupino, Irene Manning, Nora Martin, Joan McCracken, Dolores Moran, Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige, Eleanor Parker, William Prince, Joyce Reynolds, John Ridgely, Roy Rogers, Trigger, S. Z. Sakall, Zachary Scott, Alexis Smith, Barbara Stanwyck (Herself), Craig Stevens, Joseph Szigeti, Donald Woods, Jane Wyman.

  Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

  Producer: William Jacobs. Director: Peter Godfrey. Story: Aileen Hamilton. Screenplay: Lionel Houser, Adele Comandini. Photography: Carl Guthrie. Editor: Frank Magee. Production and distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: August 11, 1945. Running time: 102 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Elizabeth Lane), Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S. Z. Sakall, Robert Shayne, Una O’Connor, Frank Jenks, Joyce Compton, Dick Elliott.

  My Reputation (1946)

  Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Based on the novel Instruct My Sorrows by Clare Jaynes. Screenplay: Catherine Turney. Photography: James Wong Howe. Editor: David Weisbart. Production and distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: January 26, 1946. Running time: 94 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Jessica Drummond), George Brent, Warner Anderson, Lucile Watson, John Ridgely, Eve Arden, Jerome Cowan, Esther Dale, Scotty Beckett, Bobby Cooper, Leona Maricle, Mary Servoss, Cecil Cunningham, Janis Wilson, Ann E. Todd.

  The Bride Wore Boots (1946)

  Producer: Seton I. Miller. Director: Irving Pichel. Based on the play The Odds on Mrs. Oakley by Harry Segall. Screenplay: Dwight Mitchell Wiley. Photography: Stuart Thompson. Editor: Ellsworth Hoagland. Production and distribution: Paramount. Release date: May 31, 1946. Running time: 85 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Sally Warren), Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Patric Knowles, Peggy Wood, Robert Benchley, Willie Best, Natalie Wood, Gregory Marshall, Mary Young.

  The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

  Director: Lewis Milestone. Story: Jack Patrick. Screenplay: Robert Rossen. Photography: Victor Milner. Editor: Archie Marshek. Production: Hal Wallis Productions. Distribution: Paramount. Release date: July 24, 1946. Running time: 117 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Martha Ivers), Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson, Roman Bohnen, Darryl Hickman, Janis Wilson, Ann Doran, Frank Orth, James Flavin, Mickey Kuhn, Charles D. Brown.

  California (1947)

  Producer: Seton I. Miller. Director: John Farrow. Story: Boris Ingster. Screenplay: Frank Butler, Theodore Strauss. Photography: Ray Rennahan. Editor: Eda Warren. Production and distribution: Paramount (“A John Farrow Production” received credit). Release date: February 21, 1947. Running time: 97 minutes. Cast: Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck (Lily Bishop), Barry Fitzgerald, George Coulouris, Albert Dekker, Anthony Quinn, Frank Faylen, Gavin Muir, James Burke, Eduardo Ciannelli, Roman Bohnen, Argentina Brunetti, Howard Freeman, Julia Faye.

  The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)

  Producer: Mark Hellinger. Director: Peter Godfrey. Based on the play by Martin Vale. Screenplay: Thomas Job. Photography: Peverell Marley. Editor: Frederick Richards. Production and distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: March 4, 1947. Running time: 99 minutes. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck (Sally Morton Carroll), Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce, Isobel Elsom, Patrick O’Moore, Ann Carter, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Barry Bernard.

  The Other Love (1947)

  Director: André De Toth. Based on the short story “Beyond” by Erich Maria Remarque. Screenplay: Ladislas Fodor, Harry Brown. Photography: Victor Milner. Editor: Walter Thompson. Production: Enterprise. Distribution: United Artists (“The David Lewis Production” received credit). Release date: May 14, 1947. Running time: 95 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Karen Duncan), David Niven, Richard Conte, Gilbert Roland, Joan Lorring, Lenore Aubert, Maria Palmer, Natalie Schafer, Edward Ashley, Richard Hale.

  Cry Wolf (1947)

  Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: Peter Godfrey. Based on the novel by Marjorie Carleton. Screenplay: Catherine Turney. Photography: Carl Guthrie. Editor: Folmar Blangsted. Production and distribution: Warner Bros. (“A Thomson Production” received credit). Release date: August 19, 1947. Running time: 83 minutes. Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck (Sandra Marshall), Geraldine Brooks, Richard Basehart, Jerome Cowan, John Ridgely, Patricia Barry, Rory Mallinson, Helene Thimig, Paul Stanton, Barry Bernard.

  B.F.’s Daughter (1948)

  Producer: Edwin H. Knopf. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Based on the novel by John P. Marquand. Screenplay: Luther Davis. Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg. Editor: George White. Production and distribution: MGM/Loew’s (“A Robert Z. Leonard Production” received credit). Release date: April 2, 1948. Running time: 108 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Pauline “Polly” Fulton Brett), Van Hef
lin, Charles Coburn, Richard Hart, Keenan Wynn, Margaret Lindsay, Spring Byington, Marshall Thompson, Barbara Laage, Thomas E. Breen, Fred Nurney.

  Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

  Producer: Hal Wallis. Director: Anatole Litvak. Based on the radio play by Lucille Fletcher. Screenplay: Lucille Fletcher. Photography: Sol Polito. Editor: Warren Low. Production: Hal Wallis Productions. Distribution: Paramount. Release date: September 1, 1948. Running time: 89 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Leona Stevenson), Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea, Ed Begley, Leif Erickson, William Conrad, John Bromfield, Jimmy Hunt, Dorothy Neumann, Paul Fierro.

  The Lady Gambles (1949)

  Producer: Michael Kraike. Director: Michael Gordon. Story: Lewis Meltzer, Oscar Saul. Adaptation: Halsted Welles. Screenplay: Roy Huggins. Photography: Russell Metty. Editor: Milton Carruth. Production and distribution: Universal. Release date: May 20, 1949. Running time: 99 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Joan Boothe), Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett, John Hoyt, Elliott Sullivan, John Harmon, Philip Van Zandt, Leif Erickson, Curt Conway, Houseley Stevenson.

  East Side, West Side (1949)

  Producer: Voldemar Vetluguin. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Based on the novel by Marcia Davenport. Screenplay: Isobel Lennart. Photography: Charles Rosher. Editor: Harold F. Kress. Production and distribution: MGM/Loew’s (“A Mervyn LeRoy Production” received credit). Release date: December 22, 1949. Running time: 108 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Jessie Bourne), James Mason, Van Heflin, Ava Gardner, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Davis, Gale Sondergaard, William Conrad, Raymond Greenleaf, Douglas Kennedy, Beverly Michaels, William Frawley, Lisa Golm, Tom Powers.

  The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)

  Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Director: Robert Siodmak. Story: Marty Holland. Screenplay: Ketti Frings. Photography: George Barnes. Editor: Warren Low. Production: Wallis-Hazen. Distribution: Paramount (“Hal Wallis’ Production” received credit). Release date: January 18, 1950. Running time: 100 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Thelma Jordon), Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges, Richard Rober, Minor Watson, Barry Kelley, Kasey Rogers, Basil Ruysdael, Jane Novak, Gertrude Hoffman, Harry Antrim, Kate Drain Lawson, Theresa Harris, Byron Barr, Geraldine Wall, Jonathan Corey, Robin Corey.

  No Man of Her Own (1950)

  Producer: Richard Maibaum. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Based on the novel I Married a Dead Man by William Irish. Screenplay: Sally Benson, Catherine Turney. Photography: Daniel L. Fapp. Editor: Alma Macrorie. Production and distribution: Paramount (“A Mitchell Leisen Production” received credit). Release date: May 3, 1950. Running time: 98 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Helen Ferguson), John Lund, Jane Cowl, Phyllis Thaxter, Lyle Bettger, Henry O’Neill, Richard Denning, Carole Mathews, Harry Antrim, Catherine Craig, Esther Dale, Milburn Stone, Griff Barnett.

  The Furies (1950)

  Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Director: Anthony Mann. Based on the novel by Niven Busch. Screenplay: Charles Schnee. Photography: Victor Milner. Editor: Archie Marshek. Production: Wallis-Hazen. Distribution: Paramount. Release date: August 16, 1950. Running time: 109 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Vance Jeffords), Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez, Beulah Bondi, Albert Dekker, John Bromfield, Wallace Ford, Blanche Yurka, Louis Jean Heydt, Frank Ferguson, Charles Evans, Movita, Craig Kelly, Myrna Dell.

  To Please a Lady (1950)

  Director: Clarence Brown. Screenplay: Barré Lyndon, Marge Decker. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Robert J. Kern. Production and distribution: MGM/Loew’s (“A Clarence Brown Production” received credit). Release date: October 13, 1950. Running time: 91 minutes. Cast: Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck (Regina Forbes), Adolphe Menjou, Will Geer, Roland Winters, William C. McGaw, Lela Bliss, Emory Parnell, Frank Jenks, Helen Spring, Bill Hickman, Lew Smith, Ted Husing.

  The Man with a Cloak (1951)

  Producer: Stephen Ames. Director: Fletcher Markle. Story: John Dickson Carr. Screenplay: Frank Fenton. Photography: George J. Folsey. Editor: Newell P. Kimlin. Production and distribution: MGM/Loew’s. Release date: October 19, 1951. Running time: 81 minutes. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck (Lorna Bounty), Louis Calhern, Leslie Caron, Joe De Santis, Jim Backus, Margaret Wycherly, Richard Hale, Nicholas Joy, Roy Roberts, Mitchell Lewis.

  Clash by Night (1952)

  Producer: Harriet Parsons. Director: Fritz Lang. Based on the play by Clifford Odets. Screenplay: Alfred Hayes. Photography: Nicholas Musuraca. Editor: George Amy. Production: Wald-Krasna Productions, RKO Radio Pictures. Distribution: RKO Radio Pictures. Release date: June 16, 1952. Running time: 105 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Mae Doyle D’Amato), Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, J. Carrol Naish, Silvio Minciotti, Keith Andes.

  Jeopardy (1953)

  Producer: Sol Baer Fielding. Director: John Sturges. Based on the radio play A Question of Time by Maurice Zimm. Screenplay: Mel Dinelli. Photography: Victor Milner. Editor: Newell P. Kimlin. Production and distribution: MGM/Loew’s. Release date: March 30, 1953. Running time: 69 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Helen Stilwin), Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker, Lee Aaker.

  Titanic (1953)

  Producer: Charles Brackett. Director: Jean Negulesco. Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard L. Breen. Photography: Joe MacDonald. Editor: Louis Loeffler. Production and distribution: 20th Century–Fox. Release date: May 27, 1953. Running time: 98 minutes. Cast: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck (Julia Sturges), Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter, Brian Aherne, Richard Basehart, Allyn Joslyn, James Todd, Frances Bergen, William Johnstone.

  All I Desire (1953)

  Producer: Ross Hunter. Director: Douglas Sirk. Based on the novel Stopover by Carol Brink. Adaptation: Gina Kaus. Screenplay: James Gunn, Robert Blees. Photography: Carl Guthrie. Editor: Milton Carruth. Production and distribution: Universal. Release date: July 3, 1953. Running time: 79 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Naomi Murdoch), Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Marcia Henderson, Lori Nelson, Maureen O’Sullivan, Richard Long, Billy Gray, Lotte Stein, Dayton Lummis, Fred Nurney.

  Blowing Wild (1953)

  Producer: Milton Sperling. Director: Hugo Fregonese. Writer: Philip Yordan. Photography: Sid Hickox. Editor: Alan Crosland Jr. Production: United States Pictures. Distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: October 17, 1953. Running time: 90 minutes. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck (Marina Conway), Ruth Roman, Anthony Quinn, Ward Bond, Ian MacDonald, Richard Karlan, Juan García.

  The Moonlighter (1953)

  Producer: Joseph Bernhard. Director: Roy Rowland. Story and screenplay: Niven Busch. Photography: Bert Glennon. Editor: Terry Morse. Production: Abtcon Pictures/J.B. Productions. Distribution: Warner Bros. Release date: September 19, 1953. Running time: 77 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Rela), Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond, William Ching, John Dierkes, Morris Ankrum, Jack Elam, Charles Halton, Norman Leavitt, Sam Flint, Myra Marsh, William Kerwin, Tom Keene.

  Executive Suite (1954)

  Producer: John Houseman. Director: Robert Wise. Based on the novel by Cameron Hawley. Screenplay: Ernest Lehman. Photography: George Folsey. Editor: Ralph E. Winters. Production and distribution: MGM/Loew’s. Release date: April 20, 1954. Running time: 104 minutes. Cast: William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck (Julia O. Tredway), Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, Paul Douglas, Louis Calhern, Dean Jagger, Nina Foch, Tim Considine, William Phipps, Lucy Knoch, Edgar Stehli, Mary Adams, Virginia Brissac, Harry Shannon.

  Witness to Murder (1954)

  Producer: Chester Erskine. Director: Roy Rowland. Screenplay: Chester Erskine. Photography: John Alton. Editor: Robert Swink. Production: Chester Erskine Pictures. Distribution: United Artists. Release date: April 15, 1954. Running time: 83 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Cheryl Draper), George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Jesse White, Harry Shannon, Claire Carleton, Lewis Martin, Dick Elliott, Harry Tyler, Juanita Moore, Joy Hallward, Adeline de Walt Reynolds.

  Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)

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sp; Producer: Benedict Bogeaus. Director: Allan Dwan. Screenplay: Robert Blees, Howard Estabrook. Photography: John Alton. Editor: James Leicester. Production: Filmcrest Productions/RKO Radio Pictures. Distribution: RKO Radio Pictures. Release date: November 18, 1954. Running time: 88 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Sierra Nevada Jones), Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam, Yvette Duguay, Morris Ankrum, Chubby Johnson, Myron Healey, Rodd Redwing, Paul Birch, Byron Foulger, Burt Mustin.

  The Violent Men (1955)

  Producer: Lewis J. Rachmil. Director: Rudolph Maté. Based on the novel Smoky Valley by Donald Hamilton. Screenplay: Harry Kleiner. Photography: Burnett Guffey, W. Howard Greene. Editor: Jerome Thoms. Production and distribution: Columbia. Release date: January 26, 1955. Running time: 96 minutes. Cast: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck (Martha Wilkison), Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, May Wynn, Warner Anderson, Basil Ruysdael, Lita Milan, Richard Jaeckel, James Westerfield, Jack Kelly, Willis Bouchey, Harry Shannon.

  Escape to Burma (1955)

  Producer: Benedict Bogeaus. Director: Allan Dwan. Based on the short story “Bow Tamely to Me” by Kenneth Perkins. Screenplay: Talbot Jennings, Hobart Donavan. Photography: John Alton. Editor: James Leicester. Production: Filmcrest Productions/RKO Radio Pictures. Distribution: RKO Radio Pictures. Release date: April 9, 1955. Running time: 86 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Gwen Moore), Robert Ryan, David Farrar, Murvyn Vye, Lisa Montell, Robert Warwick, Reginald Denny, Robert Cabal, Peter Coe, Alex Montoya, Anthony Numkena, John Mansfield, Gavin Muir.

  There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

  Producer: Ross Hunter. Director: Douglas Sirk. Remake of 1934 film of same name. Based on a story by Ursula Parrott. Screenplay: Bernard C. Schoenfeld. Photography: Russell Metty. Editor: William M. Morgan. Production and distribution: Universal. Release date: February 1956. Running time: 84 minutes. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Norma), Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds, Pat Crowley, Gigi Perreau, Jane Darwell, Race Gentry, Myrna Hansen, Judy Nugent, Paul Smith, Helen Kleeb, Jane Howard, Frances Mercer, Sheila Bromley, Dorothy Bruce, Hermine Sterler, Fred Nurney, Hal Smith.

 

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