Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It sounds like a wonderful scene and a powerful one.” Director and script co-writer Billy Wilder feared that an execution would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Stanwyck was one of the most versatile and charismatic stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. Best known for her unforgettable ...

“She commands and men obey.” The line, from a ballad sung in Samuel Fuller’s feverish western Forty Guns (1957), is addressed to the formidable, black-clad dragoon leader played by Barbara Stanwyck, ...

Above : Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray star in “Double Indemnity,” a restored version of which will be released on Blu-ray in May by the Criterion Collection. (Photo/Paramount Pictures) An old ...

Barbara Stanwyck is the golden dominatrix lashing schlub Fred MacMurray—cast over tough guys George Raft and Alan Ladd in a brilliantly counter-intuitive coup—to the service of her homicidal ...

Since You Went Away (Claudette Colbert, Joseph Gotten, Shirley Temple, Jennifer Jones; TIME, July 17). Double Indemnity (Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson; TIME, July 10).