Barbara Stanwyck was nominated four times and never won, receiving an honorary award in 1982, which given Double Indemnity, Stella Dallas and Ball of Fire is a substantial oversight.
Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity is the definitive noir role, and the performance works because she plays a woman who is bored instead of wicked.
The Lady Eve shows a completely different instrument, playing screwball comedy at speed opposite Henry Fonda.
She was orphaned at four, worked as a chorus girl, and was for a period the highest-paid woman in the United States. She worked constantly across film and later television.
