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A life of Barbara Stanwyck. Volume 1, Steel-true 1907-1940 by Wilson, Victoria is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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“860 glittering pages” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses—her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century. Frank Capra called her, “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives us the first volume of the rich, complex life of Barbara Stanwyck, an actress whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound (eighty-eight motion pictures) and lasted in television from its infancy in the 1950s through the 1980s. Here is Stanwyck, revealed as the quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock; her years in New York as a dancer and Broadway star; her fraught marriage to Frank Fay, Broadway genius; the adoption of a son, embattled from the outset; her partnership with Zeppo Marx (the “unfunny Marx brother”) who altered the course of Stanwyck’s movie career and with her created one of the finest horse breeding farms in the west; and her fairytale romance and marriage to the younger Robert Taylor, America’s most sought-after male star. Here is the shaping of her career through 1940 with
Who reads A life of Barbara Stanwyck. Volume 1, Steel-true 1907-1940?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Wilson, Victoria
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Limited
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780684831688
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Sports, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.73 / 5 (327 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14