Barbara Stanwyck Academy Celebration
by Andre Soares
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrated Barbara Stanwyck’s centennial on Wednesday, May 16, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Participants included TCM host Robert Osborne, several Stanwyck co-stars, and assorted celebrities.
Before the event, guests were treated to a reception featuring the Academy’s new exhibition, "Presenting Miss Barbara Stanwyck: Film Posters of the Indomitable Lady, from the Mike Kaplan Collection," which opened to the public on May 17.
Photos: © AMPAS
Pat Crowley, who had a supporting role in the 1956 melodrama There’s Always Tomorrow
Lauren Hutton, Mike Kaplan, Seymour Cassel
TCM host Robert Osborne and Nina Foch, who appeared in Executive Suite in 1954. Others in the cast were William Holden, June Allyson, Paul Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Fredric March, Shelley Winters, and Barbara Stanwyck, who runs away with the heavy-handed melodrama directed by Robert Wise
Kirk Douglas. The woman on the poster is Lizabeth Scott. Keep scrolling down…
Ann Rutherford of Gone with the Wind and Andy Hardy fame, and Gigi Perreau, who had a supporting role in There’s Always Tomorrow. If I remember it correctly, Barbara Stanwyck gets to slap her in the film.
Lizabeth Scott, making a rare public appearance, and former Variety columnist Army Archerd
Jacqueline Bisset, Haskell Wexler, von Trapp Family at Douglas Kirkland’s Exhibition
Jane Fonda at COMING HOME Screening
Brian De Palma, Amy Irving at CARRIE Screening
Rose Marie, Julie Newmar, and Michelle Lee at THE JAZZ SINGER Academy Screening
Bruce Broughton, Mark Isham, Mychael Danna, and Rolfe Kent at Academy Film Music Forum
Ken Russell, Nicholas Roeg: An Evening with Ken Russell in London
James Ivory at HOWARDS END Academy Screening
John Travolta’s SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Leading Lady Karen Lynn Gorney at Academy Screening
James Toback, Allen Daviau at BUGSY Academy Screening
Francis Ford Coppola, Franc D’Ambrosio, Joe Mantegna at THE GODFATHER PART III Academy Screening
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