The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

[4] The Strange Love of Martha Ivers starts off strong with fifteen minutes of compelling backstory. We're introduced to a pre-teen girl named Martha hiding out in a train yard with a scrappy young lad named Sam. The police capture them and…
The Lady Gambles (1949)

The Lady Gambles (1949)

[5] Barbara Stanwyck catches the gambling bug something fierce in this melodramatic film co-starring Robert Preston as her worried husband. Stanwyck dips her toes in a Las Vegas casino during a vacation and quickly falls under the spell of craps and poker.…
There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)

[6] Director Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind) mines male middle-aged malaise in this melodrama that reteams Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray (Double Indemnity) for their fourth and final film together. MacMurray plays a successful toy manufacturer with a wife and three…
All I Desire (1953)

All I Desire (1953)

[6] Barbara Stanwyck stars as a theater actress returning to the small, gossip-ridden town where she abandoned her family ten years earlier. Richard Carlson (It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon) plays her husband, who is at first angry…
My Reputation (1946)

My Reputation (1946)

[6] Barbara Stanwyck stars as a recently widowed woman who causes a stir in her social circle when she finds new love with an army major (George Brent). She's prepared to defy her friends and mother, but when her twelve and fourteen-year-old…
Union Pacific (1939)

Union Pacific (1939)

[8] Director Cecil B. DeMille sets a love triangle against America's efforts to create the trans-continental railroad in Union Pacific. Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity) gets top billing as the Irish daughter of the engineer in charge of building the railroad. She falls…
The Bride Wore Boots (1946)

The Bride Wore Boots (1946)

[6] Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Cummings (Saboteur, Dial M for Murder) star as a horse racer and an author who are married with two children despite the fact they have very little in common. Each lets jealousy get the better of them…
Remember the Night (1940)

Remember the Night (1940)

[7] Before their classic pairing in 1944's noir classic Double Indemnity, Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray co-starred in this warm, Christmastime romance from director Mitchell Leisen (Death Takes a Holiday) and writer Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels). Stanwyck plays a shoplifter whose trial…
Internes Can’t Take Money (1937)

Internes Can’t Take Money (1937)

[7] Barbara Stanwyck (Baby Face, Ladies of Leisure) gets top billing in Hollywood's first movie based on Max Brand's popular Dr. Kildare novels. Stanwyck plays an ex-con whose bank robber husband hid her infant daughter from her right before he was killed.…
The Great Man’s Lady (1941)

The Great Man’s Lady (1941)

[6] Barbara Stanwyck stars as a 100-year-old woman who recalls her frontier pioneering days to a young biographer (K.T. Stevens) inquiring about her late husband, Ethan Hoyt (Joel McCrea), the man who founded the city they live in and for whom a…