her fraught marĀriage to Frank Fay, Broadway genius, who influenced a generation of actors and comedians (among them, Jack Benny and Stanwyck herself ). her years in New York as a dancer and Broadway star. We see the quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock. Here is her work, her world, her Hollywood. Now, Victoria Wilson gives us the first full-scale life of Barbara Stanwyck, whose astonishing career in movies (eighty-eight in all) spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound, and lasted in television from its infancy in the 1950s through the 1980s-a book that delves deeply into her rich, complex life and explores her extraordinary range of motion pictures, many of them iconic. Frank Capra called her "The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known." She was one of its most natural, timeless, and underrated stars. Fifteen years in the making, the first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound-the first to delve deeply into Stanwyck's rich, complex life and to explore her extraordinary range of eighty-eight motion pictures, many of them iconic her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century.
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