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.
Barbara StanwyckA magazine columnist who has fabricated her domestic Connecticut life must host a war hero and her publisher for Christmas. Christmas in Connecticut is Peter Godfrey's 1945 American romantic comedy about a magazine columnist whose readers believe she lives on…
Barbara StanwyckA prosecutor takes a shoplifter home to Indiana for Christmas after her trial is delayed, and they fall in love. Remember the Night is Mitchell Leisen's 1940 American romantic drama about a Manhattan prosecutor who postpones a shoplifter's trial until…
Barbara StanwyckMeet John Doe is Frank Capra's 1941 American political drama about a newspaper columnist who invents a fictional everyman who threatens to commit suicide on Christmas Eve in protest against social injustice, and who must then find a real person…
Barbara StanwyckChandler co-wrote with Wilder. Double Indemnity is the Billy Wilder-directed Paramount Pictures noir that became the canonical template for the genre's mature middle period.
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