Barbara Stanwyck

Born 1907 • Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress. A film and television star, she was known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence and was a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short stint as a stage actress, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television. Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award four times, and won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. She was the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the Motion Picture Academy, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Screen Actors Guild, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is ranked as the eleventh greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

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Filmography

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2020

Citizen Jane Fonda

Directed by Florence Platarets

as —

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2008

Warner at War

Directed by Constantine Nasr

as (archive footage)

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2005

Bad Girls Behind Bars

Directed by Sharon Zurek

as Nan Taylor (archive footage)

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2003

Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

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2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Directed by Richard Schickel

as Jessica Drummond (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

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1997

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

as Self (archive footage)

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1991

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

as Self (archive footage)

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1989

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

as Self

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1987

Hollywood Uncensored

Directed by James Forsher

as Self (archive footage)

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1982

Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

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1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)

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1981

This Is Elvis

Directed by Malcolm Leo

as —

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1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

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1973

The Letters

Directed by Paul Krasny

as Geraldine Parkington

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1973

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

as Self (archive footage)

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1971

A Taste of Evil

Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey

as Miriam Jennings

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1970

The House That Would Not Die

Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey

as Ruth Bennett

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1964

The Night Walker

Directed by William Castle

as Irene Trent

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1964

Calhoun

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg

as Abby Rayner

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1964

Roustabout

Directed by John Rich

as Maggie Morgan

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1962

Walk on the Wild Side

Directed by Edward Dmytryk

as Jo Courtney

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1961

Dragon by the Tail

Directed by Unknown

as Self - Host/Josephine Little

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1957

Trooper Hook

Directed by Charles Marquis Warren

as Cora Sutliff

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1957

Forty Guns

Directed by Samuel Fuller

as Jessica Drummond

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1956

There's Always Tomorrow

Directed by Douglas Sirk

as Norma Miller Vale

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1956

The Maverick Queen

Directed by Joseph Kane

as Kit Banion

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1956

These Wilder Years

Directed by Roy Rowland

as Ann Dempster

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1956

Crime of Passion

Directed by Gerd Oswald

as Kathy Ferguson

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1955

The Violent Men

Directed by Rudolph Maté

as Martha Wilkison

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1955

Escape to Burma

Directed by Allan Dwan

as Gwen Moore

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1954

Cattle Queen of Montana

Directed by Allan Dwan

as Sierra Nevada Jones

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1954

Executive Suite

Directed by Robert Wise

as Julia O. Tredway

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1954

Witness to Murder

Directed by Roy Rowland

as Cheryl Draper

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1953

Blowing Wild

Directed by Hugo Fregonese

as Marina Conway

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1953

The Moonlighter

Directed by Roy Rowland

as Rela

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1953

All I Desire

Directed by Douglas Sirk

as Naomi Murdoch

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1953

Titanic

Directed by Jean Negulesco

as Julia Sturges

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1953

Jeopardy

Directed by John Sturges

as Helen Stilwin

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1952

Clash by Night

Directed by Fritz Lang

as Mae Doyle D'Amato

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1951

The Man with a Cloak

Directed by Fletcher Markle

as Lorna Bounty

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1950

To Please a Lady

as Regina Forbes

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1950

No Man of Her Own

Directed by Mitchell Leisen

as Helen Ferguson

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1950

The Furies

Directed by Anthony Mann

as Vance Jeffords

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1949

East Side, West Side

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy

as Jessie Bourne

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1949

The Lady Gambles

Directed by Michael Gordon

as Joan Phillips Boothe

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1949

The File on Thelma Jordon

Directed by Robert Siodmak

as Thelma Jordon

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1948

B.F.'s Daughter

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard

as Pauline 'Polly' Fulton Brett

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1948

Sorry, Wrong Number

as Leona Cotterell Stevenson

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1947

The Other Love

Directed by André de Toth

as Karen Duncan

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1947

Variety Girl

as Barbara Stanwyck

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1947

The Two Mrs. Carrolls

as Sally Morton Carroll

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1947

Performers arrive in Hampshire

Directed by Unknown

as Self

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1947

California

Directed by John Farrow

as Lily Bishop

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1947

Cry Wolf

Directed by Peter Godfrey

as Sandra Marshall

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1946

My Reputation

Directed by Curtis Bernhardt

as Jessica Drummond

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1946

The Bride Wore Boots

Directed by Irving Pichel

as Sally Warren

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1946

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Directed by Lewis Milestone

as Martha Ivers

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1945

Christmas in Connecticut

Directed by Peter Godfrey

as Elizabeth Lane

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1945

Hollywood Victory Caravan

as Barbara Stanwyck

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1944

Double Indemnity

Directed by Billy Wilder

as Phyllis Dietrichson

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1944

Breakdowns of 1944

as Self

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1944

Hollywood Canteen

Directed by Delmer Daves

as Self

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1943

Lady of Burlesque

Directed by William A. Wellman

as Dixie Daisy

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1943

Flesh and Fantasy

Directed by Julien Duvivier

as Joan Stanley (segment 3)

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1942

The Gay Sisters

Directed by Irving Rapper

as Fiona Gaylord

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1942

Breakdowns of 1942

as Self

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1941

You Belong to Me

Directed by Wesley Ruggles

as Helen Hunt

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1941

The Great Man's Lady

Directed by William A. Wellman

as Hannah Sempler Hoyt

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1941

The Lady Eve

Directed by Preston Sturges

as Jean Harrington

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1941

Meet John Doe

Directed by Frank Capra

as Ann Mitchell

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1941

Ball of Fire

Directed by Howard Hawks

as Sugarpuss O’Shea

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1940

Remember the Night

Directed by Mitchell Leisen

as Lee Leander/Anna Rose Malone

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1939

Golden Boy

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian

as Lorna Moon

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1939

Union Pacific

as Mollie Monahan

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1938

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6

Directed by Ralph Staub

as Self

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1938

Hollywood Goes to Town

as Self

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1938

The Mad Miss Manton

Directed by Leigh Jason

as Melsa Manton

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1938

Always Goodbye

Directed by Sidney Lanfield

as Margot Weston

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1937

This Is My Affair

Directed by William A. Seiter

as Lil Duryea

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1937

Stella Dallas

Directed by King Vidor

as Stella Dallas

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1937

Breakfast for Two

Directed by Alfred Santell

as Valentine Ransome

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1937

Internes Can't Take Money

Directed by Alfred Santell

as Janet Haley

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1936

His Brother's Wife

Directed by W.S. Van Dyke

as Rita Wilson Claybourne

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1936

A Message to Garcia

Directed by George Marshall

as Raphaelita Maderos

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1936

The Bride Walks Out

Directed by Leigh Jason

as Carolyn Martin

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1936

Banjo on My Knee

Directed by John Cromwell

as Pearl Elliott Holley

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1936

The Plough and the Stars

Directed by John Ford

as Nora Clitheroe

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1935

Red Salute

Directed by Sidney Lanfield

as Drue Van Allen

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1935

Things You Never See on the Screen

Directed by Unknown

as Self

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1935

Annie Oakley

Directed by George Stevens

as Annie Oakley

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1934

The Secret Bride

Directed by William Dieterle

as Ruth Vincent

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1934

Gambling Lady

Directed by Archie Mayo

as Jennifer Lady Lee

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1934

A Lost Lady

Directed by Alfred E. Green

as Marian Ormsby Forrester

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1933

Ladies They Talk About

Directed by Howard Bretherton

as Nan Taylor

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1933

Ever in My Heart

Directed by Archie Mayo

as Mary Archer Wilbrandt

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1933

Baby Face

as Lily Powers

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1932

Forbidden

Directed by Frank Capra

as Lulu Smith

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1932

So Big!

Directed by William A. Wellman

as Selina Peake De Jong

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1932

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

Directed by Frank Capra

as Megan Davis

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1932

The Purchase Price

Directed by William A. Wellman

as Joan Gordon Gilson

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1932

Shopworn

Directed by Nick Grindé

as Kitty Lane

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1931

The Miracle Woman

Directed by Frank Capra

as Florence Fallon

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1931

Ten Cents a Dance

Directed by Lionel Barrymore

as Barbara O'Neill

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1931

Round About Hollywood

Directed by Unknown

as Self

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1931

Illicit

Directed by Archie Mayo

as Anne Vincent

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1931

The Stolen Jools

Directed by William C. McGann

as Mrs. Frank Fay

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1931

Night Nurse

as Lora Hart

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1931

Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)

Directed by Ralph Staub

as Self

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1930

Ladies of Leisure

Directed by Frank Capra

as Kay Arnold

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1929

The Locked Door

Directed by George Fitzmaurice

as Ann Carter

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1929

Mexicali Rose

Directed by Erle C. Kenton

as Mexicali Rose

About Barbara Stanwyck

Known for: Acting