The court scholar serving Hermann of Thuringia.
2013/01/02
A few Barbara Stanwyck films
Taped and just finished watching Sorry, Wrong Number,
The Mad Miss Manton and
Breakfast for Two. And I learned by watching the TCM commentary that
Double Indemnity and
Stella Dallas are big, acclaimed films of hers, neither of which I've seen. Sorry is an interesting film as the main characters are not at all sympathetic until the very end, when it's too late. Mad is interesting as Stanwyck's character heads up a sort of women's posse that runs around solving crimes. In that and Breakfast, an attempt at a madcap romantic comedy of the type that Katherine Hepburn did in
Bringing Up Baby,
I'm sorry to say that Stanwyck is completely unconvincing as a woman in
love. The men in these films say that they love her, but their
statements fall completely flat. Maybe that has something to do with the rumors that Stanwyck was a lesbian. As she had an affair
with Robert Wagner that no one was aware of at the time (They broke it
off because of the age difference), perhaps she was bisexual. In any
event, there's a great deal to admire about her as an actor. And nah, I
checked to see if anyone has ever collected her movies together into
one set and no one has. The next TCM classic actor film-fest is for
Loretta Young. Not sure if I've ever seen her in anything.
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