Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: sunset

TWilliam Windom, Barbara Stanwyck

Leslie Nielsen, Barbara Stanwyck

On November 21, 1966 Barbara received what was probably the greatest honor of the many she had earned up to that time. She had been aked by by the Screen Actors Guild to present an award to Governor Ronald Reagan at the Guild annual membership meeting. Shew was standing in the wings waiting to present the award when she heard Regan begin speaking about the award she thought she was presenting  to him. She was the one presented  with the award.

The house that wouldn't die  1970 ABC Movie of the week Director: John Llewellyn Moxey Cast:   Barbara Stanwyck  (Ruth Bennett)          Richard Egan, Michael Anderson Jr.,     Costumes: Nolan Miller

IThe Big Valley was cancelled  in the Spring of 1969 and Barbara was undoubtedly disappointed.  But she had no time for regrets because in June of 1969 she was hit by a much greater heartbreak.  On June 8, 1969, Robert  Taylor succumbed to lung cancer after a year long battle, Barbara was devastated. She attended the funerals and she and Ursula "Bob's two wives" spent some time together.

The Seventies were to be a decade of privacy and inactivity for Barbara Stanwyck, but started with a private nightmare.  A fan, a 45 year-old transient from Ohio by the name of Henry Roy Balmert was possessed by an unreal love for a woman he had never met and once he found her address on a map  of the houses of the stars, he began to stalk Barbara. She  was forced to bring charges against him and go through a process , Eventually Barbara had to sell her house and move to another one. Barbara appeared in three Tv movies in the seventies.

Barbara Stanwyck

1980-  Barbara appears in a segment of "Charlie's angels" called  "Toni's Boys" were she plays Antonia Blake, head of an elite male detective agency . The episode was a spin-off for a series. But the project never realized.

A taste of evil  1971 ABC Movie of the week Director: John Llewellyn Moxey Cast:   Barbara Stanwyck  (Miriam Jennings)          Barbara Parkins, Roddy McDowall,            William Windom, Arthur O'Connell   Costumes: Nolan Miller

The letters  1973 ABC Movie of the week Director: John Llewellyn Moxey Cast: (story#2)  Barbara Stanwyck  (Geraldine Parkington)          Leslie Nielsen, Dina Merrill   Costumes: Nolan Miller

In  November 1971, while filming  Fitzgerald and Pride, Barbara had to be recovered and undergo surgery to remove one kidney as the doctors determined she suffered from  a ruptured kidney wall. The operation was a success and she remained in hospital for 2 weeks and then two months convalescence at home. The film was  reshot with Susan Hayward under the title Heat of Anger.

James E.Brodhead, Bob Seagren, Bruce Bauer, Stephen Shortridge, Barbara Stanwyck, Jaclyn Smith, Sheril Ladd, Shelley Hack

On April 13, 1981 the Film Society of Lincoln Center honored Stanwyck's 50-year career in motion picture with a black tie gala. Barbara attended escorted by William Holden who'd flown in from Africa to be with her

, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden