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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line (1997)

May. 12,1997

7.5

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Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.

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Cast

Barbara Stanwyck as Self (archive footage)

[2006] Shadows of Suspense [2003] Complicated Women [2002] The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller [1983] The Thorn Birds [1983] The Thorn Birds [1982] Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Richard Chamberlain as Self (archive footage)

[2018] Nightmare Cinema [2015] Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films [2012] We Are the Hartmans [2011] The Perfect Family [2007] I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry [2007] Strength and Honour

Gary Cooper as Self (archive footage)

[2015] Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn [1961] The Naked Edge [1959] The Hanging Tree [1959] The Wreck of the Mary Deare [1959] They Came to Cordura [1958] Ten North Frederick

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Reviews

Solemplex

1997/05/12

To me, this movie is perfection.

Odelecol

1997/05/13

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Zandra

1997/05/14

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Billy Ollie

1997/05/15

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable