Barbara Stanwyck: An ILX Film Snobs Thread

Night Nurse comes and goes on Criterion

Sorry, BABY FACE is showing after all.

THE LADY EVE comes and goes as well.

As does its related bonus material.

THE PURCHASE PRICE is available on TCM on Demand for about another week. Directed by William Wellman. It was kind of poorly received when it came out but seems pretty good as of the first six minutes. Some interesting business— she even sings at the beginning!

Oh yeah and one nearly universally reviled oddity that I kind of like just showed up on Max as well.

Uh-oh, her co-star in THE PURCHASE PRICE is George Brent, which I had been trying not to think about.

His worst picture of 1932, according to the man himself. So no SO BIG!, even though it seems intended as some sort of follow-up.

2 mrs carrols is hilarious and fun

THE PURCHASE PRICE ended up being reasonably consistent all the way through, even the frozen north part with George Brent, who I ended up not minding here. Stanwyck is excellent as usual, Lyle Talbot very good and William Wellman and Sid Hickox both deliver.

Speaking of singing, plus dancing, and a bit more, the former chorus girl also shined in this snacktime activity:

Lady of Burlesque (also known as The G-String Murders and in the UK, Striptease Lady) is a 1943 American musical comedy-mystery film, produced by RKO Pictures and directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea. It is a faithful, if sanitized,[1] adaptation of the 1941 novel The G-String Murders written by strip tease queen Gypsy Rose Lee.

A significant portion of the film is taken up with onstage performances, including comic bits and toned-down striptease acts. There is also a lot of backstage action not directly related to the evolving murder mystery but highlighting the characters and lifestyles of the performers and crew.

...The film depicted as much as censors would allow with respect to the nature of "bumps and grinds", as well as the slapdash nature of burlesque shows. When reviewing the film script, which still carried Gypsy Rose Lee's original title, Joseph Breen, head of the Production Code Administration, the movie industry's self-censorship board, commented, "We are concerned about the prominent use of the object known as the 'G-String' as the murder weapon. It is our impression that the use of this extremely intimate female garment will be considered offensive . . . "[1]
...The film made $2 million[3] and earned a hefty profit of $650,000.[4][5][6]

Stanny is like… ripped in that movie

I was calling her that but recently learned that spelling is Stany with one ‘n.’

Stany very ripped; would whup my ass

I assume you know she famously liked to do her own stunts whenever possible.

Yeah she was so cool

https://www.barbara-stanwyck.com/an-interview-with-victoria-wilson-author-of-a-life-of-barbara-stanwyck-steel-true-1907-1940/?

I would imagine that after Fay was out of Stanwyck’s life, Barbara could reconnect with her old friends?

Stanwyck did not do that, once she moved on, she closed the iron door on you, which I am writing about.