Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: After Phyllis
Hollywood Canteen 1944. Warner Brothers
Director:
Delmer Daves
Cast : Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dane Clark,Janis Paige,
Guest appearences by Barbara Stanwyck and many other Warner stars.
Phyllis opened up a new direction for Barbara Stanwyck. The fact that audiences not only accepted her as a heavy, but liked her, meant that she had added the final dimension to what she could play.
Comedy or drama,heroine or villainess--She would have her choice from now on.
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Christmas in Connecticut  1945.
Warner Brothers
Director:
Peter Godfrey
Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck  (Elizabeth Lane)
        
Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet,
           Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall,
          Una O'Connor.
Costumes: Edith Head
George Brent, Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Hutton, Jane Wyman
My Reputation 1946. Warner Brothers
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck  (Jessica Drummond)
       
George Brent, Warner Anderson,
          Lucile Watson, Eve Arden, John Ridgely,
Stanwyck Costumes; Edith Head
Warner Anderson, Bobby Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Scotty Beckett, Eve Arden,
John Ridgely
                               
Barbara Stanwyck, S.Z. Sakall
                               
The film was a delightful farce with romantic overtones, a real pleasure to see even today.
Stanwyck is a young widow battling a domineering mother and a group of hypocritical socialites and falling in love with George Brent.
Barbara Stanwyck had just a brief cameo in  the all stars "Hollywood Canteen,"
Among others, Bette Davis and  John Garfield (founders of the Canteen),, Jane Wyman, Jack Carson,
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan
                               
Stanwyck's portrayal is one of her best, mature,real, deep. The gentle nature of this character wins the audience instantly, and wit and intelligence keep them interested.  The role may look easy to do, but is not.
She has to be timid without washing out,have hysterics without being showy, and be funny without appearing to try. Stanwyck meets the challenge sio subtly that her 'Jessica'  hatches in a most artful(and,seemingly, artless) manner.
The film was shown first overseas  to bring home to those  in the service and then  released in the States in 1946.