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  • Meet John Doe
  • Meet John Doe review by A customer from Rye, East Sussex
    Rated - 3 stars Mr Capra Goes to town..... 10 November 2005
    ...omance, despair and finally redemption enscapulated in the two wonderful leads: Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper (Capra's pre-Jimmy Stewart muse). They rarely make them like th...  
  • The Lady Eve
  • The Lady Eve review by Swede from Oxford
    Rated - 5 stars Stanwyck In Excelsis 5 July 2005
    ... level businness that usually clutters up Sturges' films, The Lady Eve provides Barbara Stanwyck's finest moment. Her routine of a card sharp masquerading as an English duchess...  
  • Golden Boy
  • Golden Boy review by Leon Collins from London
    Rated - 3 stars In the ring. 19 July 2006
    ...lden (looking like Tom Hanks)gives a strong performance alongside love interest Barbara Stanwyck before she became a femme fatale. A 27-year old Lee J.Cobb plays Holden's 50+ I...  

Barbara Stanwyck - filmography


  • Roustabout on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Elvis Presley,  Barbara Stanwyck,  Joan Freeman
    Director: John Rich
    Certificate: U
    In ROUSTABOUT, Elvis plays Charlie Rogers, a carefree, leather-clad biker who joins the carnival of Maggie Morgan (Barbara Stanwyck). There he finds hard work, romance, and a job as a tent crooner. Inevitably, he attracts the attention of a sleazy rival. Raquel Welch makes her screen debut in a bit ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 62% from 371 members
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  • Double Indemnity on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Fred MacMurray,  Barbara Stanwyck,  Edward G. Robinson
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: PG
    Director Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler (Creator of the ultimate private investigator, Philp Marlowe - 'The Big Sleep', 'Farewell My Lovely'), adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this dark film noir. Insurance investigator Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) plans the perfect murder with the ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.0 78% from 1,553 members
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  • Meet John Doe on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Gary Cooper,  Barbara Stanwyck,  Edward Arnold
    Director: Frank Capra
    Certificate: U
    In this Frank Capra film, Gary Cooper plays Long John Willoughby, an unemployed man who is duped into becoming an American symbol by D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon. When Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is fired by Norton, she sends a fake suicide note to the publisher ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 63% from 337 members
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  • Stella Dallas (1937)
    Starring: Barbara Stanwyck
    Director: King Vidor
    Certificate: TBC
    Stella Martin marries ambitious Stephen Dallas and soon they have a daughter named Laurel. But Stella's vulgar ways and resistance to improving herself lead to divorce. Stephen later marries respectable widow Helen Morrison and Laurel becomes the focus of Stella's life and love. Nothing is too good ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 69% from 13 members
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  • The Bitter Tea of General Yen on DVD (1933)
    Starring: Barbara Stanwyck,  Nils Asther,  Toshia Mori
    Director: Frank Capra
    Certificate: PG
    Set in China during the "Warlord Period" of the late 20s and early 30s, the film concerns the strange abduction of a New England missionary and a cruel but highly cultured Chinese general. As the general tries to woo the missionary, her conflicted feelings for him come to the forefront, all the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 65% from 141 members
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  • The Miracle Woman on DVD (1931)
    Starring: Barbara Stanwyck,  David Manners,  Sam Hardy
    Director: Frank Capra
    Certificate: TBC
    After Florence Fallon's father is fired from the church where he preached for many years, she becomes embittered and loses faith. She teams up with Horsby, a con man, and performs fake miracles for profit. But the love and trust of a blind man restores her faith in God and her fellow man.
    Rate this: 3.0 57% from 62 members
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  • The Big Valley (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Barbara Stanwyck,  Lee Majors
    Certificate: PG
    Set in California's San Joaquin Valley in the 1870s, The Big Valley is the story of one family and their fight to survive and prosper on the frontier. Widow Victoria Barkley (Barbara Stanwyck) is the powerful head of the Barkley clan, which includes illegitimate son Heath (Lee Majors) and daughter ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 55% from 23 members
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Barbara Stanwyck facts

5 most recent films


Roustabout - 3.0 stars
Forty Guns - 3.0 stars
Executive Suite - 2.5 stars
Titanic - 3.0 stars
Sorry, Wrong Number - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Double Indemnity - 4.0 stars
The Lady Eve - 3.5 stars
The Bitter Tea of General Yen - 3.5 stars
Meet John Doe - 3.0 stars
Titanic - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Executive Suite - 2.5 stars
Golden Boy - 3.0 stars
The Big Valley - 3.0 stars
Sorry, Wrong Number - 3.0 stars
Stella Dallas - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


William Holden - 2 times - show films
Bob Hope - 1 times - show films
David Manners - 1 times - show films
Warren Hymer - 1 times - show films
Van Heflin - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Frank Capra - 3 times - show films
William A. Wellman - 1 times - show films
John Rich - 1 times - show films
Robert Wise - 1 times - show films
King Vidor - 1 times - show films