Barbara Stanwyck

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

Dir. Billy Wilder · With Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Dir. Howard Hawks · With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

Dir. Preston Sturges · With Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.

Dir. Mitchell Leisen · With Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

Dir. Frank Capra · With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

Dir. Anatole Litvak · With Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.

Dir. Peter Godfrey · With Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

Dir. Alfred E. Green · With Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

Dir. Lewis Milestone · With Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

Dir. Carl Reiner · With Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd

An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.

Dir. Samuel Fuller · With Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.

Dir. Jean Negulesco · With Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner

Follows the Cleary family over several decades, focusing on the central, tragic romance between Meggie and Father Ralph, who is torn between his vows and his love for her.

Dir. Lee Stanley, Carmen Culver · With Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Christopher Plummer

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

Dir. Frank Capra · With Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori