Description
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.
About the Author
Dan Callahan is author of Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave; The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960; The Art of American Screen Acting, 1970 to Today; The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock; and the novel That Was Something. He has written for Film Comment, Sight & Sound, New York Magazine, The Criterion Collection, and many other publications.
Book Information
ISBN 9781496843432
Author Dan Callahan
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint University Press of Mississippi
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Series Hollywood Legends Series
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 15mm
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.
About the Author
Dan Callahan is author of Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave; The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960; The Art of American Screen Acting, 1970 to Today; The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock; and the novel That Was Something. He has written for Film Comment, Sight & Sound, New York Magazine, The Criterion Collection, and many other publications.
Book Information
ISBN 9781496843432
Author Dan Callahan
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint University Press of Mississippi
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Series Hollywood Legends Series
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 15mm
Details
Subtitle: |
The Miracle Woman |
Series: |
Hollywood Legends Series |
Imprint: |
University Press of Mississippi |
