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Ally and Barbara and Garry...Coming to DVD

Two interesting upcoming TV on DVD titles announced this week. First, THE BARBARA STANWYCK SHOW VOLUME 1 . This is a set of 15 episodes from Stanwyck's anthology series from the early 1960's. This 3 DVD set from E1 Entertainment will sell for $39.99. While Amazon isn't listing it yet, expect discounts to make it under $30. It will be available October 13th. Next up, a more recent...

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Barbara Stanwyck Show, The: The Classic, Emmy-Winning NBC Anthology Series is Coming to DVD!

By David Lambert - NBC's 1960 anthology series, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, ran for a single season with 36 episodes produced (only four of which didn't star Stanwyck herself). The series, shown in black-and-white,... (more)

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Barbara Stanwyck: A femme fatale destroyed by love

BARBARA Stanwyck was one of the most enduring stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, with roles in such classics as Double Indemnity, Stella Dallas and The Lady Eve. GRAHAM BALL looks at the ruthlessness behind the legend as revealed in a new book.

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Meet John Doe

“Meet John Doe” may sound like you are meeting an unidentified dead man on "CSI;" however, don’t let the title fool you, this movie is simply about the worth of the ordinary man. In an attempt to save her job, Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) writes an outrageous letter from a fake “John Doe,” a simple man who has been shut out of the world and let down by the local government, thus he...

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The Hunger Season 2 and Other Announced Releases

New releases announced today, June 23: The Barbara Stanwyck Show - Volume 1 will be coming out October 13 Faerie Tale Theatre - Magical Tales and Faerie Tale Theatre - Bedtime Tales will be coming out October 20 The Hunger - The Complete 2nd Season will ...

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Farrah & Me

... and monied clientele, and more than a fair share of celebrities. Not to boast but I was a fave of Barbara Stanwyck who’d every other month or so would come to the backdoor and ask for me with a list — sometimes just for her, sometimes for her and her good friend Henry Fonda. Countless others would come in and browse entirely uninfested by paparrazi and when they did our friends in...

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40's movies marathon - part 14

The Lady Eve (1941, USA) - Barbara Stanwyck goes on the prowl on a cruise ship, looking for a sucker to swindle, and finds Henry Fonda, a naive millionaire. The production code means that no matter how delightfully crooked Stanwyck is, she and Fonda must eventually fall in love and get married and settle down forever and ever until death does them apart, but the route by which...

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Drum Boogie

Continuing our A Blog Supreme-inspired series of great jazz-on-film moments, here’s a sequence featuring Barbara Stanwyck and legendary jazz/swing drummer Gene Krupa — pretty much the Keith Moon of his day — from one of my personal favorite classic-era comedies, Howard Hawks’ 1941 “Ball of Fire.” You’ll also notice Gary Cooper in there, playing...

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The Lady Eve (1941)

USA Feature Film Director: Preston Sturges Writers: Preston Sturges, Monckton Hoffe Cinematographer: Victor Milner Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore Although far from being Sturges’s best work, this superior romantic comedy in which Stanwyck’s comely conwoman, against her better judgement, falls for Fonda’s...

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The Unseen ('til now)

The great mystery novelist Raymond Chandler wrote the screenplay for the 1944 movie Double Indemnity, which was directed by Billy Wilder and which starred Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. We all know that. But did you know that Mr. Chandler...

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TV highlights | June 10

... artists who target a naive dolt. But one of them unexpectedly falls in love with their prey. Stars Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.

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Fallen Angel

... a bunch of smart guys will do stupid things with the right incentive, and she succeeds, as well as Barbara Stanwyck ever did, and better than Lana Turner with John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice . Which is saying something. Not just the drifter, and not just the retired cop played by Charles Bickford, who ought to be in every movie ... even Pop, proprietor of Pop's Eats,...

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Queen of Technicolor!

... the topic comes up again in THE FILE ON THELMA JORDAN. But if you have Olivia DeHavilland or Barbara Stanwyck embodying it, or if you have Maria Montez embodying it, makes a difference to the kind of results you’re going to get. In case anybody’s not sold yet, COBRA WOMAN also features: Sabu. Lon Chaney Jnr. An arthritic chimpanzee. A volcano. Possibly the greatest movie in the world...

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Jo Weldon's Suggested Reading/Film/Video from her handbook.

... Russell, <-- If you haven't seen this by now, just go watch it. Now! Lady of Burlesque, Starring Barbara Stanwyck, The Big Town ( 1987), Starring Matt Dillon and Dianne Lane Slap Shot (1977), Starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean, Striporama, Teaseorama, and Vairetease The Josephine Baker Story (1991), starring Lynn Whitfield It's Burlesque! An A&E Production Pretty Things , An...

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Of interest: Notes on Obama, Camp, Walcott, fairy tales, Lambert

... of Steve Reeves, Victor Mature. The great stylists of temperament and mannerism, like Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Tallulah Bankhead, Edwige Feuillière. * Lucas Green on Walcott as Othello The Walcott-Oxford debacle satisfies a fetish for the ritual destruction of heroes-but specifically heroes who have asserted a lonely path, heroes who have sought refuge in art and told us they...