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A Life Of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 (2013)

by Victoria Wilson(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0684831686 (ISBN13: 9780684831688)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Simon & Schuster

series

A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

review 1: Amazing book although I did my fair share of skipping. Definitive is too weak a term for what Wilson has done in this massive Vol.1 The book not only covers Stanwyck but the world she inhabited. It is best appreciated by film buffs who know the producers, writers and everything from Day 1. My interest was in her as an actress so the backgrounds of the other people whose lives touched hers was not something I really cared about. If film is your thing, you'll be in heaven. I actually read this book because Robert Wagner's biography mentioned a long and secret affair with her. There was a huge age difference. Of course, he doesn't even appear in this volume. I've run across her in many things--movies, TV and the mini-series Thorn Birds. She wasn't a beauty--and never... more wanted to be--but there was something riveting about her presence. She was, although I didn't realize it at the time, the consummate profession-always. Nothing mattered to her as much as her career--and by that I mean her performances. She wasn't interested in money (except as security) or stardom but in perfecting her craft. I can't wait for Vol. 2 but this has been a 15 year project for Wilson. Word has it that's she's only 1/3 of the way through the book.
review 2: This 860 page book with nearly an additional 300 pages of appendixes and an index, only covers the first half of Ms. Stanwyck's life. I reserved it at the library thinking it would be fun to read but when I picked it up and noted how thick it was, I just could not believe someone made this subject a definitive book and that a publisher published it.After a perusal of the book. I have decided I will not read it. Be warned this is for the serious fan of Barbara Stanwyck or cinema scholar (which I am not). less

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