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Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Katherine Stevens)
(July 16 1907 – January 20 1990) was an United
States|American film and television actor|actress.


She was born in New York City, and her mother died
when she was only four, not long before her father
abandoned the family. She was raised by an elder
sister but began working at age 13, and was a
Broadway chorine in 1922 at age 15. She took her
film name from the name of a play, Barbara
Frietchie, about a fictional American Civil
War|Civil War heroine. The play starred a British
actress named Joan Stanwyck. Her first husband was
established actor Frank Fay(U.S.-born), and they
were married from 1928 to 1936. They adopted a
son, Dion, on December 5, 1932. 

Stanwyck starred in almost a hundred films during
her career and received four nominations for the
Academy Award for Best Actress: Stella Dallas
(1937), Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity
(1944), and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). She
received an Academy Honorary Award "for
superlative creativity and unique contribution to
the art of screen acting" in 1982. In her later
years, she also starred in television, notably in
the 1960s Western series, The Big Valley. Her last
starring role was in 1985, in The Colbys.  

Her younger brother, Byron Stevens, became an
actor in Hollywood, possibly with his sister's
connections, but he never found fame.

During her life, Stanwyck was the subject of rumor
that she was a lesbian, and that her marriage to
the actor Robert Taylor (actor)|Robert Taylor was
a "lavender marriage", designed to conceal the
fact that both were homosexuality|homosexual. She
was interviewed late in life by Boze Hadleigh for
his book about Hollywood lesbians, and ended up
throwing him out of her Santa Monica house. After
her death, it was revealed that she in fact had
had affairs with other women. Nevertheless, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Taylor enjoyed their time together
outdoors, at least publicly, and were proud owners
of many acres of prime West L.A. property. 
Stanwyck and Taylor owned a large ranch and home
in the Mandeville Canyon section of Brentwood,
California, that is still to this day referred to
by locals as the "old Robert Taylor ranch."

For her contribution to the motion picture
industry, Barbara Stanwyck has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1751 Vine Street. In
1973, she was inducted into the Western Performers
Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western
Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

==Filmography==

*The Night Walker (aka The Dream Killer) (1964)
*Roustabout (1964)
*Walk on the Wild Side (Algren)|Walk on the Wild
Side (1962)
*Forty Guns (1957)
*Trooper Hook (1957)
*Crime of Passion (1957)
*There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
*These Wilder Years (1956)
*The Maverick Queen (1956)
*Escape to Burma (1955)
*The Violent Men (aka The Bandits)(aka Rough
Company) (1955)
*Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
*Executive Suite (1954)
*Witness to Murder (1954)
*Blowing Wild (1953)
*Jeopardy (1953)
*All I Desire (aka Stopover) (aka You Belong to
Me) (1953)
*The Moonlighter (1953)
*Titanic (1953 movie)|Titanic (1953)
*Clash by Night (1952)
*The Man with a Cloak (1951)
*The Furies (1950)
*To Please a Lady (aka Red Hot Wheels) (1950)
*East Side, West Side (1949)
*The File on Thelma Jordan, (aka Thelma Jordan)
(1949)
*The Lady Gambles (1949)
*No Man of Her Own (aka I Married a Dead Man)
(1949)
*B. F.'s Daughter (aka Polly Fulton) (1948)
*Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
*Cry Wolf (1947)
*The Other Love (1947)
*Variety Girl (1947)
*The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
*The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
*California (1946)
*The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
*My Reputation (1946)
*Christmas in Connecticut (aka Indiscretion)
(1945)
*Hollywood Canteen (1944)
*Double Indemnity (1944)
*Flesh and Fantasy (aka Six Destinies) (1943)
*Lady of Burlesque (aka The G-String Murders) (aka
Striptease Lady) (1943)
*The Gay Sisters (1942)
*The Great Man's Lady (1942)
*The Lady Eve (1941)
*Ball of Fire (aka The Professor and the Burlesque
Queen) (1941)
*You Belong to Me (aka Good Morning, Doctor)
(1941)
*Meet John Doe (aka John Doe, Dynamite) (1941) 
*Remember the Night (1940)
*Union Pacific (1939)
*Golden Boy (1939)
*Always Goodbye (1938)
*The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
*Internes Can't Take Money (aka You Can't Take
Money) (1937)
*Breakfast for Two (1937)
*Stella Dallas (1937)
*This Is My Affair (aka His Affair) (1937)
*Banjo on My Knee (1936)
*The Bride Walks Out (1936)
*The Plough and the Stars (1936)
*A Message to Garcia (1936)
*His Brother's Wife (aka Lady of the Tropics)
(1936)
*Red Salute (aka Arms and the Girl) (aka Her
Enlisted Man) (aka Her Uncle Sam) (aka Runaway
Daughter) (1935)
*The Woman in Red (1935)
*Annie Oakley (1935)
*Gambling Lady (1934)
*The Secret Bride (aka Concealment) (1934)
*A Lost Lady (aka Courageous) (1934)*
*Ever in My Heart (1933)
*Ladies They Talk About (aka Women in Prison)
(1933)
*Baby Face (film)|Baby Face (1933)
*The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
*The Purchase Price (1932)
*So Big! (1932)
*Shopworn (1932)
*Forbidden (1932)
*Night Nurse (1931)
*The Miracle Woman (1931)
*The Slippery Pearls (aka The Stolen Jools)
(short) (1931)
*Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
*Illicit (1931)
*Ladies of Leisure (1930)
*The Locked Door (1929)
*Mexicali Rose (aka The Girl from Mexico) (1929)
*Broadway Nights (1927)

==See also==
* Notable figures in Western films|Other notable
figures in Western films

==References==
*Peter B. Flint.  "Barbara Stanwyck, Actress, Dead
at 82."  The New York Times.  January 22 1990. 
D11.

==External links==
*imdb name | id=0001766 | name=Barbara Stanwyck