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You may remember the sparks flying between Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in the movie version. On the verge of being pink-slipped, Ann bangs out a column about John Doe, an Everyman so fed up with the sorry state of America that, in protest, he vows to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge on Christmas Eve. (Washington Times)
Herman Stein, 91; horror film composer Mar 25, 2007
Beginning with his first composing assignment for the Ozzie and Harriet Nelson comedy "Here Come the Nelsons" Stein wrote scores for every film genre, including an Audie Murphy western, an Abbott and Costello comedy and a Barbara Stanwyck drama. He also wrote music for the Ma and Pa Kettle and Francis the Talking Mule film series. (Los Angeles Times)
Noir America: Mar 15, 2007
Barbara Stanwyck, Claire Trevor, Jane Greer, and Peggy Cummins are each but separately the brilliant stars of Double Indemnity; Murder, My Sweet; Out of the Past; and Gun Crazy. They are the essential film noir amalgamations of Eve, Salome, and Carmen: there to bring men down through the pulsating syncopations of their glistening orifices. (Slate)
A force in films, Fisher turns to classic movies Mar 11, 2007
She is happy there are two Barbara Stanwyck films -- Ball of Fire and Sorry, Wrong Number -- in the series. "She's fantastic," Fisher says. (Orlando Sentinel)
SUZANNE FIELDS: Moving away from make-believe Mar 5, 2007
The days of the divas, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Barbara Stanwyck, have vanished. (Meryl Streep still has a reasonable facsimile of their aura. (Washington Times)
No Blake, but still plenty to fight about Mar 4, 2007
"I'm just lucky that Barbara Stanwyck was my mentor on [the 1960s TV show] 'The Big Valley.' She'd tell me to show up, learn my lines, and be a professional, and it has served me well. I struggled for months because I wanted so badly to rise to the occasion on stage.". Collins is correct when she obverses that the two have little in common. (Boston Globe -- Living)
PAUL KENGOR: How Hollywood produced a president Feb 19, 2007
Believe it or not, the motion picture industry even had its share of conservative Republicans: Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers, Claudette Colbert, to name a few. Once Hollywood even produced a president. (Washington Times)
Preston Sturges revisited Feb 15, 2007
At the very least it's helpful to know that the Paramount series began with a trio of hits, culminating in "The Lady Eve." Arguably the wittiest of all Hollywood romantic farces, it glorified fortune hunter Barbara Stanwyck in the process of twice seducing Henry Fonda, a wealthy sap who needs all her cleverness and dedication to rectify misunderstandings. The studio expected the farcical-harrowing split personality of "Sullivan's Travels" to catch the public off-guard, and it did. (Washington Times, DC)
Movies To Hit The Love Spot Feb 11, 2007
"That's why," he says, "my favorite of all time is 'The Lady Eve' (1941), where Henry Fonda learns that Barbara Stanwyck is a skank, but she tricks him and he falls in love again. You learn that they are never as great as you think but not as bad as you think, either. We're all just human.". Another favorite is "Truly, Madly, Deeply" (1991), in which Juliet Stevenson is so in love with Alan Rickman that he comes back, and Schwarzbaum says "she does one of the greatest crying scenes of all... (CBS News)
* Too many movies packed into 'The Holiday' Feb 9, 2007
" But Meyers, whose ambitions are telegraphed by her film's title, which directly invokes George Cukor's lovely 1938 romp Holiday, has created a cumbersome vehicle by saddling Iris with a flamboyantly glamorous Los Angeles double, Amanda. As played by Cameron Diaz with oodles of charm and not an ounce of persuasion, Amanda doesn't as much mirror Iris's love troubles as throw them into wincing relief. On the brink of Christmas, these two strangers trade homes for The Holidays and land smack in... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Featured TV DVD Release: 'The Big Valley' Feb 9, 2007
Victoria Barkley (Barbara Stanwyck) is one tough mama as the matriarch. Victoria has two quite different sons: steady lawyer Jarrod (Richard Long) and goofy but likable Nick (Peter Breck). (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Garner in Christmas Spirit Feb 1, 2007
The original 1945 comedy was directed by Peter Godfrey and starred Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, and Sydney Greenstreet. It was previously remade into a 1992 TV movie with Kris Kristofferson, Dyan Cannon, and Tony Curtis - and directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. (IGN FilmForce)
Smokin Aces more like a lame joker Jan 26, 2007
The idea is as old as Double Indemnity, in which Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck said goodbye with a lethal embrace, but it comes off as one of the fresher touches here. The rest is mostly Tarantino Lite. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Stanwyck tough as nails (Gary Arnold) Jan 18, 2007
The American Film Institute Silver Theatre gets a jump on the calendar with its centennial tribute to the late Barbara Stanwyck, who was born Ruby Stevens in Brooklyn on July 16, 1907. The 12 selections in the retrospective include the quartet that put Miss Stanwyck in competition for the Academy Award as best actress: "Stella Dallas" in 1937, "Ball of Fire" in 1941, "Double Indemnity" in 1944 and "Sorry, Wrong Number" in 1948. (Washington Times, DC)
A.I. Bezzerides, 98; novelist became a screenwriter known for film noir classics Jan 9, 2007
He also was the co-creator of "The Big Valley," the popular 1960s western series starring Barbara Stanwyck. To film buffs, Bezzerides was best known for "Thieves' Highway," director Jules Dassin's thriller based on Bezzerides' 1949 novel; "On Dangerous Ground," Nicholas Ray's 1952 crime drama; and "Kiss Me Deadly," Robert Aldrich's 1955 crime thriller loosely based on the Mickey Spillane novel. (Los Angeles Times)
Valley influenced Bezzerides' writing Jan 7, 2007
Bezzerides created the Barbara Stanwyck television series "The Big Valley," but complained that Hollywood bleached out its ethnic richness. Although he was often described as a film noir artist, he was adamant that he did not write pulp fiction, Nazarian said:"He was a working-class writer from the bare-knuckles school of writing. He thought you needed to write reality. He had a love for the truth. When I visited him, he still had ink spots on his fingers."Funeral arrangements are pending. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
A Prairie Home Companion (PG) Jan 5, 2007
I will cherish, among much else, the memory of Elliott Gould's proto-slacker Marlowe in The Long Goodbye, bemused at the gatekeeper's awful impressions of Barbara Stanwyck; of Keith Carradine's lovely performance of "I'm Easy" in Nashville; of Richard E Grant's manic pitching to Tim Robbins in The Player and of the deservedly famous tracking shot that opens it; and of a handful of stand-out performances - Maggie Smith, Emily Watson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam - in Gosford Park, his... (Independent)
TV producer Small dead at 83 Jan 3, 2007
The agency's clients included Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck and Sammy Cahn. In 1961, he negotiated a buyout with the Ashley-Steiner Agency, the precursor to today's ICM. He formed the Witzer Small Agency with Ted Witzer in 1970 and in 1975 he started Artists Career Management. (Variety)
The game of the name Jan 2, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Cecily DynesJanuary 3, 2007. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
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