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The Barbara Stanwyck Collection
Known for her passionate performances, Barbara Stanwyck was one of the brightest stars to ever grace the silver screen. Equally captivating in heavy dramas ( Sorry, Wrong Number ), lighthearted comedies ( The Lady Eve ), and dark film noirs ( Double Indemnity ), she is considered one of the best among Hollywood’s leading ladies. This collection of 6 rare films includes Internes Can’t Take Money, The Great Man’s Lady, The Bride Wore Boots, The Lady Gambles, All I Desire and There’s Always...
The Lady Gambles
Barbara Stanwyck stars as a once respectable and vibrant wife who has become a desperately out-of-control high roller in The Lady Gambles . A chance visit into a Las Vegas casino introduces Joan Booth (Stanwyck) to the seductive allure of poker and the craps table. All too soon, she ignores her devoted husband (Robert Preston) and older sister (Edith Barrett) as she compulsively chases after hard-hearted Lady Luck.
Internes Can't Take Money
Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea, Internes Can't Take Money launched a series of movies and TV programs featuring the famous Dr. Kildare character. Young Dr. Jimmie Kildare (McCrea), interning at a clinic, falls for his patient Janet Haley (Stanwyck). The feeling is mutual but Janet has a secret she will not divulge: She is the widow of a bank robber who hid their daughter before he died and she is desperately trying to find the little girl. She will use anyone - including Dr. Kildare...
The Bride Wore Boots
Screen legend Barbara Stanwyck stars alongside Robert Cummings and a young Natalie Wood in the outrageous comedy The Bride Wore Boots . Southern heiress Sally Warren (Stanwyck) loves everything to do with horseracing. Her bookish husband, Jeff (Cummings), cannot stand the creatures and would rather spend his time writing. When their incompatibilities land them in divorce court, it will take a little imagination and a lot of luck to restore the love in their hilariously mismatched relationship.
There's Always Tomorrow
Directed by Douglas Sirk, There's Always Tomorrow stars Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in an absorbing drama about family life, marriage and the temptation of past romances. Clifford Groves (MacMurray) wants to spend more time alone with his wife, Marion (Joan Bennett), but her domestic duties keep her busy. Alone on a getaway weekend he had planned with Marion, Clifford runs into Norma (Stanwyck), a stunning former employee - and old flame - who is now successful, divorced and seemingly...
Union Pacific
Barbara Stanwyk and Joel McCrea star in director Cecil B. DeMille’s explosive western, Union Pacific , about the struggle to build America’s first transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler (McCrea), overseer of the Union Pacific’s construction, finds a network of schemers bent on sabotage. Most prominent are gamblers Sid Campeau (Brian Donlevy), Jack Cordray (Anthony Quinn) and Dick Allen (Robert Preston). Dick is a former pal of Jeff’s, but their relationship changes as they fight over the...
All I Desire
Directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Ross Hunter, All I Desire stars Barbara Stanwyck as a stage actress who returns to the small town and family she abandoned. Ten years ago, a turn-of-the-century scandal forced Naomi Murdoch (Stanwyck) to desert her husband (Richard Carlson) and their children for a stage career. Now, returning to their small Wisconsin town to see her daughter in a play, she has hopes of reconciliation. Her appearance is a shock and the town is curious but unforgiving...
The Great Man's Lady
Screen legend Barbara Stanwyck stars as a 109-year-old woman who recounts the story of her eventful life in The Great Man's Lady . After Hoyt City dedicates a statue to its founder Ethan Hoyt (Joel McCrea), the woman who inspired his achievement, Hanna Sempler (Stanwyck), tells their story to a young biographer. She begins with their elopement in 1848 when she was a headstrong girl of 16 and Ethan was an idealist yearning to build a city in the West. Their future was fraught with difficulties,...
Flesh and Fantasy
Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Edward G. Robinson and Charles Boyer star in the haunting tale of the supernatural, Flesh and Fantasy . When a jittery businessman (Robert Benchley) complains of a disturbing dream, a friend relates three stories to help calm his nerves. In the first, a homely dressmaker (Betty Field) wears a mask of beauty to attract a man (Cummings) on Mardi Gras night. Then, a fortuneteller (Thomas Mitchell) predicts an eminent lawyer (Robinson) will commit a murder, in an...
Remember the Night
Screen legends Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray star in the heartwarming holiday classic Remember the Night (1940). Lee Leander (Stanwyck) is a petty shoplifter on trial for swiping an expensive bracelet from a local jewelry store. When her trial is postponed until after New Year’s, sympathetic Assistant District Attorney John Sargent (MacMurray) bails her out of jail. Together, they find themselves falling in love when he invites her to his family’s home for the holidays where she discovers...