Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
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Apr 17, 2024 · Barbara Stanwyck’s six-decade career in Hollywood solidifies her as one of its greatest stars. She received numerous accolades, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and an honorary Oscar. Despite rumors, her sexuality remains unconfirmed, though she had connections to the LGBTQ+ community.
Jul 16, 2013 · In one of the more infamous examples of her reticence, Stanwyck reportedly threw journalist Boze Hadleigh out of her house after he asked whether she had ever partaken in lesbian sex, as...
Jul 6, 2015 · Crawford, Garbo and Dietrich were also lovers shared by Bankhead and Stanwyck. In 1928 Barbara married vaudevillian Frank Fay. They left for Hollywood to try their luck. Whenever he beat her up, which was often, she found solace in the arms of Crawford.
May 12, 2017 · Boze Hadleigh's 1994 book Hollywood Lesbians (Barricade Books) slammed open the closet door on some of Hollywood's most famous stars, including Barbara Stanwyck, Ann B. Davis, Agnes Moorehead,...
Jun 14, 2009 · “Most likely Barbara Stanwyck was bisexual but she had affairs with director Frank Capra and actor Robert Wagner, and flings with other men including Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper and William...
The next year, she portrayed the title tragic femme fatale in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. She garnered her fourth Oscar nomination for her performance as an invalid wife in the noir-thriller Sorry, Wrong Number (1948).
Mar 24, 2023 · Greta Garbo, Tallulah Bankhead, and even Joan Crawford are the ones most commonly brought up as part of the clique, as were Katharine Hepburn and Barbara Stanwyck.
Barbara Stanwyck, orphaned at the age of four and partially raised in foster homes, one day become the highest-paid woman in the United States.
It’s no secret that we at AFS love, love, love the great screen star Barbara Stanwyck. She is not only one of the best technicians of the actor’s art in all of classic Hollywood, she exemplifies a sort of independence and self-reliance that we think are always worth admiring and emulating.
Apr 2, 2014 · Stanwyck, along with Golden Age actresses like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, helped to redefine the typical role of women in film. Unlike the damsels in distress and happy housewives often...
