Baby Face Articles

Greta Garbo in Queen Christina FILM Baby Face d: Alfred E. Green; scr: Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola The Barbarian d: Sam Wood; scr: Anita Loos, Elmer Harris Dinner at 8 d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Donald Ogden Stewart Gold Diggers of 1933 d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: Erwin Gelsey, James Seymour, David Boehm, Ben Markson I’m No Angel d: Wesley Ruggles; scr: [...]

There have probably been few transformations more striking than that of Ruby Stevens of Brooklyn into Barbara Stanwyck of Hollywood — the highest-paid woman in the United States in 1944. Stanwyck, whose film career lasted from the dawn of the sound era to the mid-1960s, is Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars subject on Tuesday, August 19. [Barbara Stanwyck movie schedule.] Personally, I find [...]

Barbara Stanwyck, John Wayne, Baby Face Long thought lost, the original cut of the 1933 Barbara Stanwyck movie Baby Face will be screened at the London Film Festival in November. The racy Warner Bros. production was initially released in all its risque glory, but had to be withdrawn shortly thereafter because of vociferous protests against its "immorality": a woman (Stanwyck) uses her body, her sensuality, [...]