| Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: 1942 - 1943 |
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| The gay sisters 1942. Warner Brothers Director: Irving Rapper Cast : Barbara Stanwyck ( Fiona Gaylord) George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Gig Young, Nancy Coleman, Gene Lockhart, Donald Woods, Anne Revere, Costumes: Edith Heads |
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| Flesh and fantasy 1943. Universal Director: Julien Duvivier Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Joan Stanley) Charles Boyer, Edward G. Robinson, Betty Field, Robert Cummings, Thomas Mitchell , Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty, Charles Winninger, Stanwyck Costumes: Edith Head |
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| Lady of Burlesque 1943. United Artists Director: William A. Wellman Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Dixie Daisy) Michael O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg, Iris Adrian, Gloria Dickson Stanwyck Costumes; Edith Heads |
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| This film, shot in 1942 but released one year later was directed by French expatriate director Julien Duvivier and consisted of three separate stories and casts ( linked together by prologue, epilogue and connecting commentary)concerned with fate versus free will. Stanwyck is in the third episode and she is a fugitive from justice with whom circus aerialist Boyer becomes involved. |
| This film was at the same time moody and different , but was also extremely sucessfull. It is a psychological study of a type of woman that she will play often, a dark, discontented one, the product of a changing world. |
| Since "Stella Dallas" in 1937, Barbara had appeared in 12 films, each of them very successful and better than the average film fare. In a thirteen-year film career, Barbara had had surprisingly few embarassing cinematic moments. "Lady of Burlesque", the last of her films directed by Wellman, was one of the few. |
| In Spring of 1943 Robert Taylor enlisted in the Naval Air Corps. He was commissioned a lieutenant and asked for combat service as a pilot, but he was 32 and considered too old. Instead he wound up a flying instructor and director of seventeen training films. At home, Barbara sold the Beverly Hill house and moved into another, somewhat smaller. Her spare time was spent at the Hollywood Canteen,where such top stars as Judy Garland and Bette Davis entertained the West Coast-based servicemen. |
| Based on Gypsy Rose Lee's novel,'The G-String murders' the film was an *A picture* that had *B picture* written all over it. It was barbara's second shot at portraying a burlesque queen. she was as usual good. Barbara Stanwyck was a veteran of fourty-four films by now and shown versatility with many styles. There remained one kind of role, an integral part of the spectrum of an actress, that she had never done, and the time was right for it. It was still early enough for audiences to be shaken up by a thoroughly evil woman. Phyllis Dietrichson was waiting for her..... |