A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940

by Victoria Wilson

Book Overview

Fifteen years in the making, the first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound--the first to delve deeply into Stanwyck's rich, complex life and to explore her extraordinary range of eighty-eight motion pictures, many of them iconic; her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century. Frank Capra called her "The greatest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684831686
• ISBN13: 9780684831688
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 1044 Pages
• Weight: 3.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.7" x 9.6"