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Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman: Hollywood Legends

Autor Dan Callahan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 2012

Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood s most talented leading women-and America s highest paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes as a child, she took a number of low-wage jobs while she determinedly made the connections that landed her in successful Broadway productions. Stanwyck then acted in a stream of high-quality films from the 1930s through the 1950s. Directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra treasured her particular magic. A four-time Academy Award nominee, winner of three Emmys and a Golden Globe, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy.

Dan Callahan considers both Stanwyck s life and her art, exploring her seminal collaborations with Capra in such great films as "Ladies of Leisure," "The Miracle Woman," and "The Bitter Tea of General Yen"; her Pre-Code movies "Night Nurse" and "Baby Face"; and her classic roles in "Stella Dallas," "Remember the Night," "The Lady Eve," and "Double Indemnity." After making more than eighty films in Hollywood, she revived her career by turning to television, where her role in the 1960s series "The Big Valley" renewed her immense popularity.

Callahan examines Stanwyck s career in relation to the directors she worked with and the genres she worked in, leading up to her late-career triumphs in two films directed by Douglas Sirk, "All I Desire" and "There s Always Tomorrow," and two outrageous westerns, "The Furies" and "Forty Guns." The book positions Stanwyck where she belongs-at the very top of her profession-and offers a close, sympathetic reading of her performances in all their range and complexity."

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ISBN-13: 9781617031830
ISBN-10: 1617031836
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 162 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: University Press of Mississippi
Seria Hollywood Legends


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"Callahan soars when he takes aim at Stanwyck's acting and films, so much so that "The Miracle Woman"'s primary value may be as a friendly reference book to pull off the shelf every time you see a Stanwyck picture and wish to hear an erudite, witty voice offer much more than two cents Callahan writes of her with the ever-present respect one shows a great artist, and "The Miracle Woman" is brimming with penetrating observations [his] writing is often humorously piquant, hitting the reader like a lime spritz in a margarita."Matthew Kennedy, "The Bay Area Reporter"

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