BARBARA STANWYCK.(Interview)

Interview | March 1, 2001 | Copyright

HOLLYWOOD'S BALL OF FIRE IS STILL STRIKING SPARKS

You try to resist standard-issue Hollywood language when describing Barbara Stanwyck- legendary, unique, immortal--but you can't. Stanwyck remains, 11 years after her death, more than a great star of the movies; she's a touchstone. She created many of the ideals, standards, looks and aspirations three subsequent generations of actresses followed. Stanwyck not only conquered the movies, she did it on her own terms: She couldn't succeed via the favored beauty ideals of her day, so she made dispensing them the key to her ...

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