Born in 1907 as Ruby Stevens, Barbara Stanwyck is the American cinema’s most fascinating indispensable actress. If she ever had an acting lesson, it must not have taken, as her style was pure ...

Now the ball of fire is again causing a stir, this time thanks to Victoria Wilson’s first installment of a two-part biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940.

Barbara Stanwyck fans should set their DVRs for 3 a.m. July 15 because that’s when TCM begins its 10-film festival featuring several of those terrific pre-Code melodramas that she made early in ...