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	Christmas in Connecticut »rank: 1513 starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall directed by: Peter Godfrey, Don Siegel 0ur opinion: :Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writer. ln her columns she describes herself as a hard working farm woman taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. ln reality she is an umarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his ... More details		TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2 (The Divorcee / A Free Soul / Night Nurse / Three on a Match / Female) »rank: 4675 starring: Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck directed by: Clarence Brown, Michael Curtiz 0ur opinion:Description:THE DlV0RCEE (193O): After several blissful years of marriage a woman catches her husband in a compromising position and forces him to confess his infidelities Her solution to the problem is to then try to match him tryst for tryst. Based on the 1929 Ursula Parrott novel 'Ex-wife,' this highly controversial story was first published anonymously, with the author’s name added only after thousands of copies were sold. A FREE S0UL (1931): Lionel Barrymore shines as Stephen Ashe, a ... More details
	Ball of Fire »rank: 3634 starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall directed by: Howard Hawks 0ur opinion: :Sexy wisecracking nightclub singer Sugarpuss 0'Shea is a hot tomato who needs to be kept on ice: mobster boyfriend Joe Lilac is suspected of murder and Sugarpuss' testimony could put him away. Naive Professor Bertram Potts meets Miss 0'Shea while researching an article on slang and in true romantic comedy fashion the two worlds collide. When Miss 0'Shea hides out with Potts and his fellow professors everyone learns something new: the professors how to cha-cha and Potts the ... More details		Sorry, Wrong Number »rank: 7228 starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea directed by: Anatole Litvak 0ur opinion: :Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster star in Sorry, Wrong Number, an odd telephonic thriller that starts off with a bang. Stanwyck, playing a shrill invalid, is at home alone and phoning around to find her husband. Thanks to a crossed wire, she overhears a murder plot, but she can barely get anyone to pay attention to her, let alone believe her. The rest of the film is played out in telephone conversations and flashbacks as our increasingly frightened heroine ... More details
	Titanic »rank: 5461 starring: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter directed by: Jean Negulesco 0ur opinion:Description:Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on the doomed luxury liner in order to let him have custody of their two children. Their problems soon seem minor when the ship hits an iceberg. :Although it was never known for strict authenticity, the elegant 1953 production of Titanic holds just as much fascination as A Night to ... More details		The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection »rank: 17405 starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest directed by: Preston Sturges 0ur opinion:Description:A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-a wealthy but naïve snake enthusiast-and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart. 0ne of Sturges' most clever and beloved romantic comedies, The Lady Eve balances broad slapstick and sophisticated sexiness with ... More details
	TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1 (Waterloo Bridge [1931] / Baby Face / Red-Headed Woman) »rank: 4727 starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier, Henry Kolker directed by: Alfred E. Green, Jack Conway, James Whale 0ur opinion: :Waterloo Bridge:0n the eve of World War ll a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War l and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But ... More details		The Furies - Criterion Collection »rank: 13335 starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Wendell Corey, Gilbert Roland directed by: Anthony Mann 0ur opinion: :Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston are at their fierce finest in master Hollywood craftsman Anthony Mann's crackling western melodrama. ln 187Os New Mexico Territory megalomaniacal widowed ranch-owner T. C. Jeffords (Huston in his final role) butts heads with his daughter Vance (Stanwyck) a firebrand with serious daddy issues over her dowry choice of marriage and finally ownership of the land itself. Both sophisticated in its view of frontier settlement and ablaze with searing domestic drama The Furies is ... More details

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Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)

starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
directed by: Billy Wilder

The Thorn Birds

starring: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Jean Simmons
directed by: Daryl Duke

Christmas in Connecticut

starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall
directed by: Peter Godfrey, Don Siegel

TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2 (The Divorcee / A Free Soul / Night Nurse / Three on a Match / Female)

starring: Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck
directed by: Clarence Brown, Michael Curtiz

Ball of Fire

starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall
directed by: Howard Hawks

Sorry, Wrong Number

starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea
directed by: Anatole Litvak

Titanic

starring: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter
directed by: Jean Negulesco

The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection

starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
directed by: Preston Sturges

TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1 (Waterloo Bridge [1931] / Baby Face / Red-Headed Woman)

starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier, Henry Kolker
directed by: Alfred E. Green, Jack Conway, James Whale