Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: After Stella
Breakfast for two 1937. RKO
Director: Alfred Santell
Cast : Barbara Stanwyck ( Valentine Ransom)
        Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore,
          Donald Meek, Etienne Girardot.
Costumes:  Edward Stevenson.
Barbara Stanwyck ,
It was the same old story.   After an Actress had a great success, she was caught without a suitable follow-up film waiting.  Miss Standwyck had a great success in "Forbidden " and had to follow up with"Shopworn"  and now with a great movie like "Stella Dallas"  she followed up with a sophisticated comedy of the sort popular in the thirties,opposite Herbert Marshall and in a  not very demanding role.
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Always goodbye 1938.
Twentieth Century-Fox
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck  (Margot Weston)
         Herbert Marshall, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero,
           Lynn Bari, Binnie Barnes, Johnnie Russell,                  Mary Forbes,
Costumes; Royer
,Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall
                               
Herbert  Marshall, Barbara Stanwyck, Eric Blore
The mad miss Manton 1938. RKO
Director: Leigh Jason
Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck  (Melsa Manton)
        Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Frances Mercer,
          Stanley Ridges, Hattie McDaniels,
Costumes; Edward Stevenson
Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck
                               
Barbara Stanwyck,
                               
After having been put in suspension for refusing several  scripts she deemed unsuitable for her , Miss Stanwyck, accepted  to appear in another film with Herbert Marshall.
A remake of "Gallant lady"  another story  of mother love and sacrifice, but only a poor man's version of S"Stella Dallas".

The film was well received and she got, as usual, good reviews.
Having fulfilled her responsabilities  at Fox, Barbara next set out to do the same with RKO. Happily , the film at hand was somewhat more appealing.
Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall
Barbara worked well with Marshall and the critics and public were pleased. Stanwyck said in an interview that she  couldn't have followed 'Stella Dallas" with another emotional role and that the comedy was really like a vacation.
A delightful screwball comedy in which Stanwyck portrayed a madcap heiress who, together with a group of her debutante friends, solves a double murder, It was the first of three films Barbara and henry Fonda made together. The critics as usual were impressed and liked the pairing.