Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: Martha
The strange love of Martha Ivers  1946. Paramount
Director:Lewis Milestone
Cast : Barbara Stanwyck ( Martha Ivers)
         Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas,
          Judith Anderson, Roman Bohnen
Costumes: Edith Head
Barbara Stanwyck, Ann Carter, Humphrey Bogart
Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas
                               
The film has everything going for it: a superior script, hard-hitting direction, a score by Miklos Rozsa and exciting camera work.  As a child Martha murdered her aunt. Some eighteen years later, Stanwyck's Martha has married Kirk Douglas, who had witnessed the crime,  to keep him from talking. They have had an innocent man  hanged in her place; and Martha, who inherited her aunt's wealth, has pushed Douglas into public office where he is going to be*whatever his wife wants him to be*. he has turned to drink and she to lovers. When Van Heflin, to whom she was attracted as a child, return to town, she tries to get him to kill Douglas. This fails and she and Douglas commit suicide . Stanwyck and Douglas played to the hilt two of the meanest and most seriously interesting characters that addicted to homicidial melodrama are likely to meet with on the screen.
California  1947.   Paramount
Director: John Farrow
Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck  (Lily Bishop)
         Ray Milland, Barry Fitzgerald,
          George Coulouris, Albert Dekker,
           Anthony Quinn, Eduardo Ciannelli
Women Costumes: Edith Head
(top&left) Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin
                               
, Kirk Douglas, Barbara Stanwyck
                               
This Western teamed Barbara with Ray Milland.
It was also Barbara's first Technicolor film.
She was an adventuress with an unhappy past , the ability to clear everybody at cards, and a love-hate relationship with Milland that causes a lot of trouble.
She was beautifully gowned in Edith Head's copies of museum pieces and was photographed by master of Technicolor ray Rennahan.
Barbara Stanwyck
Although patriotic to the extreme, Stanwyck had always remained uninvolved politically. Robert Taylor, on the other hand, had become increasingly active in politics since his hitch in the Navy.
These were the early days of the great Red Scare soon to obsess the country and Taylor voluntarily testified to the House Un_American Activities Committee. He became very active and was one of the first to  single out fellow actors as Communists.