It’s going to be a Barbara Stanwyck Christmas at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Two free films starring the legendary actress will be shown on Dec. 15 and 29. On Dec. 15 at 2 p.m. the film is ...

Barbara Stanwyck starred in 84 films over a nearly 40 year period beginning in the late 1920s through the mid-1960s. Her hits spanned a number of genres from noir (Double Indemnity) to comedy (The ...

“She commands and men obey.” The line, from a ballad sung in Samuel Fuller’s feverish western Forty Guns (1957), is addressed to the formidable, black-clad dragoon leader played by Barbara Stanwyck, ...

It’s a sure sight for sore eyes to see the name “Stanwyck” emblazoned on a cinematheque marquee. Then again, not everyone today may be familiar with this name — but the uninitiated have every reason ...