Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: Natural Actress
Ten cents a Dance 1931. Columbia
Director: Lionel Barrymore
Cast;  Barbara Stanwyck  ( Barbara O'Neil)
          Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley,
          Sally Blane, Blanche Friderici,
Stanwyck portrays a dime-a-dance girl whose hell of a husband forces to compromise herself to save him from prison.
(right)Ricardo Cortez,
Barbara Stanwyck
Monroe Owsley, Barbara Stanwyck
(above) Barbara Stanwyck
(Right) Phyllis Crane, Barbara Stanwyck
Night Nurse 1931. Warner Brothers
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck  ( Lora Hart)
          Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable,
           Blanche Friderici,

Stanwyck is a nurse who helps mistreated children,whose mother is  too deeply involved with booze and a villainous chaffeur after their inheritance ,played by newcomer Gable.
(above & left) 
Barbara Stanwyck
(above ) 
Ben Lyon, Clark Gable
As Barbara Stanwyck 's career grew more and more successful, her husband's career seemed to run itself into the ground. His films bombed and he began to drink more heavily and rumors of trouble began to circulate. Barbara denied it vehemently.

In Spring of 1931, Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Capra were reunited in their second collaboration , a film called "The Miracle Woman".
It was based on the play " Bless you , Sister" by John Meehan and Robert Riskin.
It was the story of an Aimee Semple McPherson-type evangelist who is in the business only to milk her believers for all she can get.
Somehow her sermons give courage to a blind ex-aviator, played by David Manners, who is considering suicide. They fall in love and in the end she abandons her phony 'calling' but not before her temple is set on fire.  She remain on stage,valiantly forcing the crowd to sing 'Onward Christian Soldiers' as they calmly march out to safety. Then, surrounded by flames, she is saved by David Manners.