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 Today Barbara Stanwyck is remembered primarily as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkleys on the TV western The Big Valley (1965), wherein she played Victoria, and from the hit drama The Colbys (1985). But she was known to millions of other fans for her movie career, which spanned the period from 1927 until 1964, after which she appeared on television until 1986. It was a career that lasted for 59 years.Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Catherine Stevens on July 16, 1907, in Brooklyn, New York, to working class parents Catherine Ann (McPhee) and Byron E. Stevens. Her father, from Massachusetts, had English ancestry, and her Canadian mother, from Nova Scotia, was of Scottish and Irish descent. Stanwyck went to work at the local telephone company for fourteen dollars a week, but she had the urge (a dream--that was all it was) somehow to enter show business. When not working, she pounded the pavement in search of dancing jobs. The persistence paid off. Barbara was hired as a chorus girl for the princely sum of $40 a week, much better than the wages she was getting from the phone company. She was seventeen, and was going to make the most of the opportunity that had been given her.In 1928 Barbara moved to Hollywood, where she was to start one of the most lucrative careers filmdom had ever seen. She was an extremely versatile actress who could adapt to any role. Barbara was equally at home in all genres, from melodramas, such as Forbidden (1932) and Stella Dallas (1937), to thrillers, such as Double Indemnity (1944), one of her best films, also starring Fred MacMurray (as you have never seen him before). She also excelled in comedies such as Remember the Night (1940) and The Lady Eve (1941). Another genre she excelled in was westerns, Union Pacific (1939) being one of her first and TV's The Big Valley (1965) (her most memorable role) being her last. In 1983, she played in the ABC hit mini-series The Thorn Birds (1983), which did much to keep her in the eye of the public. She turned in an outstanding performance as Mary Carson.Barbara was considered a gem to work with for her serious but easygoing attitude on the set. She worked hard at being an actress, and she never allowed her star quality to go to her head. She was nominated for four Academy Awards, though she never won. She turned in magnificent performances for all the roles she was nominated for, but the "powers that be" always awarded the Oscar to someone else. However, in 1982 she was awarded an honorary Academy Award for "superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting." Sadly, Barbara died on January 20, 1990, leaving 93 movies and a host of TV appearances as her legacy to us.
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Today Barbara Stanwyck is remembered primarily as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkleys on the TV western The Big Valley (1965), wherein she played Victoria, and from the hit drama The Colbys (1985). But she was known to millions of other fans for her movie career, which spanned the period from 1927 until 1964, after which she appeared on television until 1986. It was a career that lasted for 59 years.Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Catherine Stevens on July 16, 1907, in Brooklyn, New York, to working class parents Catherine Ann (McPhee) and Byron E. Stevens. Her father, from Massachusetts, had English ancestry, and her Canadian mother, from Nova Scotia, was of Scottish and Irish descent. Stanwyck went to work at the local telephone company for fourteen dollars a week, but she had the urge (a dream--that was all it was) somehow to enter show business. When not working, she pounded the pavement in search of dancing jobs. The persistence paid off. Barbara was hired as a chorus girl for the princely sum of $40 a week, much better than the wages she was getting from the phone company. She was seventeen, and was going to make the most of the opportunity that had been given her.In 1928 Barbara moved to Hollywood, where she was to start one of the most lucrative careers filmdom had ever seen. She was an extremely versatile actress who could adapt to any role. Barbara was equally at home in all genres, from melodramas, such as Forbidden (1932) and Stella Dallas (1937), to thrillers, such as Double Indemnity (1944), one of her best films, also starring Fred MacMurray (as you have never seen him before). She also excelled in comedies such as Remember the Night (1940) and The Lady Eve (1941). Another genre she excelled in was westerns, Union Pacific (1939) being one of her first and TV's The Big Valley (1965) (her most memorable role) being her last. In 1983, she played in the ABC hit mini-series The Thorn Birds (1983), which did much to keep her in the eye of the public. She turned in an outstanding performance as Mary Carson.Barbara was considered a gem to work with for her serious but easygoing attitude on the set. She worked hard at being an actress, and she never allowed her star quality to go to her head. She was nominated for four Academy Awards, though she never won. She turned in magnificent performances for all the roles she was nominated for, but the "powers that be" always awarded the Oscar to someone else. However, in 1982 she was awarded an honorary Academy Award for "superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting." Sadly, Barbara died on January 20, 1990, leaving 93 movies and a host of TV appearances as her legacy to us.
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Often called "The Best Actress Who Never Won an Oscar."When she was awarded an Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement, the statuette was presented to her by John Travolta who later confessed that the experience was his supreme Oscar moment. Stanwyck had been a Travolta family favorite for years. (1982)A Star Is Born (1937) starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March is said to be modeled after Stanwyck's rise to stardom and first husband Frank Fay's descent into obscurity.Throughout her career she was known for her kindness and patience with younger performers. Marilyn Monroe, who worked with Stanwyck in the 1952 film Clash by Night (1952) said that Stanwyck was the only member of Hollywood's older generation who was kind to her.Lived near Joan Crawford during her marriage to Frank Fay. According to Christina Crawford, between 1932 and 1934, Stanwyck would escape from the alcoholic and volatile Fay when things got too hot by scaling a fence on their property. She would stay with Crawford, who lived across the street, until the heat died down. Stanwyck and Crawford had been friends since the days when they were single young actresses and remained friends until Crawford's death.William Holden was considered to be too lightweight for the lead role in Golden Boy (1939), but Stanwyck urged producers to keep him in the picture, and the role made him a star. In 1978, at the The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978), before starting the presentation of the sound award, Holden publicly thanked her for what she did. She nearly broke down in tears and kissed Holden, and the exchange received thunderous audience applause.Was best friends for many years with Frank Sinatra's first wife, Nancy.On October 27, 1981, Stanwyck was awakened by a burglar at 1:00 in the morning. She was hit on the head with an unknown object then forced into a closet while the intruder ransacked the house and got away with $5,000 worth of jewels. She was treated for minor head wounds at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and released the next day. Four years later, in 1985, the house was destroyed in a fire. She expressed upset at losing personal keepsakes, including love letters from Robert Taylor.Worked briefly as a fashion model in the late 1920s.Stanwyck had no funeral. She was cremated and the ashes scattered from a helicopter over Lone Pine, California, where she had made some of her Western films.In his autobiography, Cecil B. DeMille wrote that, among the actresses he directed, Barbara Stanwyck was his favorite. He said, "Barbara's name is the first that comes to mind, as one on whom a director can always count to do her work with all her heart".In 1944, when she earned $400,000, the government listed her as the nation's highest-paid woman.Planned to play the lead in Mildred Pierce (1945), but Joan Crawford was faster and got the role.According to the biographical film Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991), Stanwyck became a role model for female actors. Such stars as Sally Field and Virginia Madsen have publicly declared Stanwyck their role model.Her stormy, seven-year marriage to Frank Fay finally ended after a drunken brawl, during which he tossed their adopted son, Dion, into the swimming pool. Their divorce was finalized on December 30, 1935. The couple had adopted Dion on December 5, 1932. Dion (born John Charles Greene, February 5, 1932, Los Angeles County, California - died May 17, 2006, Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, California) became permanently estranged from Stanwyck in February 1951, when he was 19 years old; the rift never healed.In 1957, Dion was arrested for trying to sell lewd pictures while waiting to cash his unemployment check. When questioned by the press about his famous mother, he replied, "We don't speak." He and Stanwyck only saw each other a few times after their falling out. He was reportedly bequeathed some money from Stanwyck's estate on condition he never speak publicly about her.She starred in Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific (1939) and received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1986. Her acceptance speech: "Thank you very, very much. To my beloved television brother, Charlton Heston [in The Colbys (1985)]. As Moses he parted the Red Sea for Mr. DeMille, and I helped Mr. DeMille build the Union Pacific Railroad. And we both loved him. I considered it a privilege to work for him. And to the Foreign Press Awards, I thank them for giving me another privilege: his very own award. I thank the Foreign Press, I thank Mr. DeMille, and I thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you".Picked up the starring role in Ball of Fire (1941) after Ginger Rogers dropped out.She was voted the 40th "Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Entertainment Weekly.Was a heavy smoker who later developed bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); the latter claimed her life in 1990, aged 82.Three comedies that she starred in during 1941 (Meet John Doe (1941), Ball of Fire (1941), and The Lady Eve (1941)) were Oscar-nominated for Best Story, but none of them won the award.Her nickname among co-workers was "Missy" or "The Queen."Peter Breck, Lee Majors, and Linda Evans were said to be huge fans of hers, as little children. As adults, all three co-starred with her in the hit western series The Big Valley (1965).A massive, 1000-page biography of Stanwyck, published in 2013 by Victoria Wilson, is merely the first volume of an ongoing narrative of the star, one that covers only the first 33 years of Stanwyck's life.Was listed #11 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years of The Greatest Screen Legends."American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. (1987)Forty of the movies she appeared in in her 35-year-long career were screened through the month of December 2013 in a special tribute at New York City's Film Forum.Stanwyck, a staunch Republican, along with, among others, Ginger Rogers, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, and Irene Dunne, was a member of The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a right-wing political action group during the McCarthy Era of the early to mid-1950s.Her role as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944) was ranked #8 on the American Film Institute's "100 Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains" list. The performance also was ranked #98 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time list (2006) and #58 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time list.Stanwyck vehemently opposed the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. She felt that if someone from her disadvantaged background had risen to success, others should be able to do the same without government intervention or assistance.Was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).In a first-season episode of The Big Valley (1965) (called "Tunnel of Gold"), Stanwyck's character, Victoria Barkley, explained that she lost both of her parents as a young child and was raised in a foster home. Years later, Stanwyck explained it was written that way because the exact same thing had happened to her as a child.In Hollywood, as everywhere he went, Frank Fay did not make a lot of friends. A standard joke of the time went "Who's got the biggest prick in Hollywood?" Answer: "Barbara Stanwyck." The womanizing, alcoholic Fay's career floundered, while Stanwyck's flourished for decades. In 1935, the two were divorced, and Fay continued his downward spiral until 1944, when he was chosen to play Elwood P. Dowd in the original New York City Broadway production of "Harvey".She drew praise in 1984 when, during her Golden Globes acceptance speech for "The Thorn Birds," she spent much of her own limited time praising Ann-Margret for her performance in "Who Will Love My Children?", which was in a completely different category. It was noted in the press that this was typical of her, given Stanwyck's reputation for complimenting other actors during her own productions.Her stage name was inspired by a theatrical poster that read "Jane Stanwyck in 'Barbara Frietchie.'".Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1973.She has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Baby Face (1933), The Lady Eve (1941), Ball of Fire (1941) and Double Indemnity (1944).Sister of actor Bert Stevens and sister-in-law of actress Caryl Lincoln. Godmother of Bobbie Poledouris.Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1751 Vine St.Born Ruby Catherine Stevens of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, the youngest child of Massachusetts-born Byron Stevens (1872-1954), and Nova Scotia, Canada-born Catherine (n��e McPhee) Stevens (1870-1911). Ruby's siblings were Maude, Mable, Mildred, and Malcolm Byron ("Bert") Stevens (Bert Stevens). Not long after their mother's death, their father abandoned the family. Young Ruby was raised by her sisters.Actor Robert Wagner, more than 20 years Stanwyck's junior, claimed in his biography that he had a four-year relationship with the actress.Starred in only one film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: Double Indemnity (1944). She also starred in Union Pacific (1939), which won the Cannes Film Festival's first Palme d'Or Award.She was honored as Turner Classic Movie's Star of the Month for December 2012.Acting mentor and friend of Linda Evans and Lee Majors.Profiled in book "Funny Ladies" by Stephen Silverman. (1999)Cecil B. DeMille cast Stanwyck as Mollie Monahan in Union Pacific (1939) after offering the role to Claudette Colbert and Vivien Leigh. Colbert did not want to work with DeMille again as their temperaments had clashed while making their previous movies. Leigh purposefully asked DeMille for a higher salary because she wanted to play Scarlett O'Hara instead. He then gave the part to Stanwyck and was immediately impressed with her great talent and professionalism. She holds the distinction of being DeMille's all-time favorite actress. The movie also won the first Palme d'Or award, one of the most prestigious accolades in the film industry.Her papers are in the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, PO Box 3924, Laramie, WY 82071.She twice played a character named Jessica Drummond in two completely different movies: My Reputation (1946) and Forty Guns (1957).Through his friend Oscar Levant, Frank Fay met Stanwyck, a former chorus girl who had just gotten her first acting role on Broadway (in "Burlesque", 1927), earning good reviews. He and Stanwyck wed on August 26, 1928. In 1929, they performed a dramatic sketch as "Fay and Stanwyck" at the Palace. Later that year, they were called to Hollywood so Fay could star in the film. Show of Shows (1929).On August 1, 2020, she was honored with a day of her film work during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars Festival.Profiled in "Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames" by Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner (McFarland, 2004). |
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Barbara Stanwyck |
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Actress,Soundtrack (IMDB) |
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All World |
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Actress,Soundtrack |
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45 |
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| Height: |
5' 5' (1.65 m) |
| Biography: |
Today Barbara Stanwyck is remembered primarily as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkleys on the TV western The Big Valley (1965), wherein she played Victoria, and from the hit drama The Colbys (1985). But she was known to millions of |
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Often called "The Best Actress Who Never Won an Oscar."When she was awarded an Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement, the statuette was presented to her by John Travolta who later confessed that the experience was his supreme Oscar moment. Stanwyck had been a Travolta family favorite for years. (1982)A Star Is Born (1937) starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March is said to be modeled after Stanwyck's rise to stardom and first husband Frank Fay's descent into obscurity.Throughout her career she was known for her kindness and patience with younger performers. Marilyn Monroe, who worked with Stanwyck in the 1952 film Clash by Night (1952) said that Stanwyck was the only member of Hollywood's older generation who was kind to her.Lived near Joan Crawford during her marriage to Frank Fay. According to Christina Crawford, between 1932 and 1934, Stanwyck would escape from the alcoholic and volatile Fay when things got too hot by scaling a fence on their property. She would stay with Crawford, who lived across the street, until the heat died down. Stanwyck and Crawford had been friends since the days when they were single young actresses and remained friends until Crawford's death.William Holden was considered to be too lightweight for the lead role in Golden Boy (1939), but Stanwyck urged producers to keep him in the picture, and the role made him a star. In 1978, at the The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978), before starting the presentation of the sound award, Holden publicly thanked her for what she did. She nearly broke down in tears and kissed Holden, and the exchange received thunderous audience applause.Was best friends for many years with Frank Sinatra's first wife, Nancy.On October 27, 1981, Stanwyck was awakened by a burglar at 1:00 in the morning. She was hit on the head with an unknown object then forced into a closet while the intruder ransacked the house and got away with $5,000 worth of jewels. She was treated for minor head wounds at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and released the next day. Four years later, in 1985, the house was destroyed in a fire. She expressed upset at losing personal keepsakes, including love letters from Robert Taylor.Worked briefly as a fashion model in the late 1920s.Stanwyck had no funeral. She was cremated and the ashes scattered from a helicopter over Lone Pine, California, where she had made some of her Western films.In his autobiography, Cecil B. DeMille wrote that, among the actresses he directed, Barbara Stanwyck was his favorite. He said, "Barbara's name is the first that comes to mind, as one on whom a director can always count to do her work with all her heart".In 1944, when she earned $400,000, the government listed her as the nation's highest-paid woman.Planned to play the lead in Mildred Pierce (1945), but Joan Crawford was faster and got the role.According to the biographical film Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991), Stanwyck became a role model for female actors. Such stars as Sally Field and Virginia Madsen have publicly declared Stanwyck their role model.Her stormy, seven-year marriage to Frank Fay finally ended after a drunken brawl, during which he tossed their adopted son, Dion, into the swimming pool. Their divorce was finalized on December 30, 1935. The couple had adopted Dion on December 5, 1932. Dion (born John Charles Greene, February 5, 1932, Los Angeles County, California - died May 17, 2006, Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, California) became permanently estranged from Stanwyck in February 1951, when he was 19 years old; the rift never healed.In 1957, Dion was arrested for trying to sell lewd pictures while waiting to cash his unemployment check. When questioned by the press about his famous mother, he replied, "We don't speak." He and Stanwyck only saw each other a few times after their falling out. He was reportedly bequeathed some money from Stanwyck's estate on condition he never speak publicly about her.She starred in Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific (1939) and received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1986. Her acceptance speech: "Thank you very, very much. To my beloved television brother, Charlton Heston [in The Colbys (1985)]. As Moses he parted the Red Sea for Mr. DeMille, and I helped Mr. DeMille build the Union Pacific Railroad. And we both loved him. I considered it a privilege to work for him. And to the Foreign Press Awards, I thank them for giving me another privilege: his very own award. I thank the Foreign Press, I thank Mr. DeMille, and I thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you".Picked up the starring role in Ball of Fire (1941) after Ginger Rogers dropped out.She was voted the 40th "Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Entertainment Weekly.Was a heavy smoker who later developed bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); the latter claimed her life in 1990, aged 82.Three comedies that she starred in during 1941 (Meet John Doe (1941), Ball of Fire (1941), and The Lady Eve (1941)) were Oscar-nominated for Best Story, but none of them won the award.Her nickname among co-workers was "Missy" or "The Queen."Peter Breck, Lee Majors, and Linda Evans were said to be huge fans of hers, as little children. As adults, all three co-starred with her in the hit western series The Big Valley (1965).A massive, 1000-page biography of Stanwyck, published in 2013 by Victoria Wilson, is merely the first volume of an ongoing narrative of the star, one that covers only the first 33 years of Stanwyck's life.Was listed #11 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years of The Greatest Screen Legends."American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. (1987)Forty of the movies she appeared in in her 35-year-long career were screened through the month of December 2013 in a special tribute at New York City's Film Forum.Stanwyck, a staunch Republican, along with, among others, Ginger Rogers, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, and Irene Dunne, was a member of The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a right-wing political action group during the McCarthy Era of the early to mid-1950s.Her role as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944) was ranked #8 on the American Film Institute's "100 Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains" list. The performance also was ranked #98 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time list (2006) and #58 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time list.Stanwyck vehemently opposed the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. She felt that if someone from her disadvantaged background had risen to success, others should be able to do the same without government intervention or assistance.Was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).In a first-season episode of The Big Valley (1965) (called "Tunnel of Gold"), Stanwyck's character, Victoria Barkley, explained that she lost both of her parents as a young child and was raised in a foster home. Years later, Stanwyck explained it was written that way because the exact same thing had happened to her as a child.In Hollywood, as everywhere he went, Frank Fay did not make a lot of friends. A standard joke of the time went "Who's got the biggest prick in Hollywood?" Answer: "Barbara Stanwyck." The womanizing, alcoholic Fay's career floundered, while Stanwyck's flourished for decades. In 1935, the two were divorced, and Fay continued his downward spiral until 1944, when he was chosen to play Elwood P. Dowd in the original New York City Broadway production of "Harvey".She drew praise in 1984 when, during her Golden Globes acceptance speech for "The Thorn Birds," she spent much of her own limited time praising Ann-Margret for her performance in "Who Will Love My Children?", which was in a completely different category. It was noted in the press that this was typical of her, given Stanwyck's reputation for complimenting other actors during her own productions.Her stage name was inspired by a theatrical poster that read "Jane Stanwyck in 'Barbara Frietchie.'".Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1973.She has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Baby Face (1933), The Lady Eve (1941), Ball of Fire (1941) and Double Indemnity (1944).Sister of actor Bert Stevens and sister-in-law of actress Caryl Lincoln. Godmother of Bobbie Poledouris.Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1751 Vine St.Born Ruby Catherine Stevens of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, the youngest child of Massachusetts-born Byron Stevens (1872-1954), and Nova Scotia, Canada-born Catherine (n��e McPhee) Stevens (1870-1911). Ruby's siblings were Maude, Mable, Mildred, and Malcolm Byron ("Bert") Stevens (Bert Stevens). Not long after their mother's death, their father abandoned the family. Young Ruby was raised by her sisters.Actor Robert Wagner, more than 20 years Stanwyck's junior, claimed in his biography that he had a four-year relationship with the actress.Starred in only one film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: Double Indemnity (1944). She also starred in Union Pacific (1939), which won the Cannes Film Festival's first Palme d'Or Award.She was honored as Turner Classic Movie's Star of the Month for December 2012.Acting mentor and friend of Linda Evans and Lee Majors.Profiled in book "Funny Ladies" by Stephen Silverman. (1999)Cecil B. DeMille cast Stanwyck as Mollie Monahan in Union Pacific (1939) after offering the role to Claudette Colbert and Vivien Leigh. Colbert did not want to work with DeMille again as their temperaments had clashed while making their previous movies. Leigh purposefully asked DeMille for a higher salary because she wanted to play Scarlett O'Hara instead. He then gave the part to Stanwyck and was immediately impressed with her great talent and professionalism. She holds the distinction of being DeMille's all-time favorite actress. The movie also won the first Palme d'Or award, one of the most prestigious accolades in the film industry.Her papers are in the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, PO Box 3924, Laramie, WY 82071.She twice played a character named Jessica Drummond in two completely different movies: My Reputation (1946) and Forty Guns (1957).Through his friend Oscar Levant, Frank Fay met Stanwyck, a former chorus girl who had just gotten her first acting role on Broadway (in "Burlesque", 1927), earning good reviews. He and Stanwyck wed on August 26, 1928. In 1929, they performed a dramatic sketch as "Fay and Stanwyck" at the Palace. Later that year, they were called to Hollywood so Fay could star in the film. Show of Shows (1929).On August 1, 2020, she was honored with a day of her film work during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars Festival.Profiled in "Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames" by Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner (McFarland, 2004). |
| Trademarks: |
Seductive husky voice with Brooklyn accent
Frequently played women who must deal with their low class standing
Her shapely legs |
| Quotes: |
During Double Indemnity (1944), Fred MacMurray would go to rushes [viewings of daily completed shots]. I remember asking Fred, "How was I?" [Fred's response was] "I don't know about you, but I was wonderful!" Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves.
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I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.
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[referring to director Frank Capra] Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure, it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!
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Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.
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My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. |
| Salaries: |
Titanic (1953) - $75,000
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The Mad Miss Manton (1938) - $60,000
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Stella Dallas (1937) - $50 .000
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Gambling Lady (1934) - $50 .000
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Ever in My Heart (1933) - $50,000 |
| Job title: |
Actress,Soundtrack |
| Others works: |
(1941) Print ads: Lux Toilet Soap
(1922-29) Stage: Under the name Ruby Stevens, performed in many cabaret shows in New York.
(1923) Stage: Appeared in "Artists and Models" on Broadway. Musical revue. Shubert Theatre, New York.
(1923) Stage: A |
| Spouse: |
Robert Taylor (May 14, 1939 - February 25, 1952) (divorced)Frank Fay (August 26, 1928 - December 30, 1935) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Dion Anthony \"Tony\" Fay |
| Parents: |
Catherine Ann Stevens (McPhee)
Byron E Stevens |
| Relatives: |
Bert Stevens (Sibling)
Mable Stevens (Sibling)
Maude Stevens (Sibling)
Mildre \"Millie\" Stevens (Sibling) |
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