All About Barbara Stanwyck: Net Worth, Death, Children, Died

Known for movies

Short Info

Date Of Birth	July 16, 1907
Died	January 20, 1990, Santa Monica, California, United States
Spouse	Robert Taylor, Frank Fay
Mark	Frequently was cast as women who must deal with their low class standing
Fact	Godmother of Tori Spelling.
Payments	Earned $75,000 from Titanic (1953)

Barbara Stanwyck was one of the most prolific actresses of her time. She was born Ruby Stevens on July 16, 1907 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were immigrants from Poland and Ireland. Stanwyck was the youngest of five children. Her father died when she was four years old, and her mother died when she was eleven. Stanwyck was then raised by her older sister. She dropped out of school at the age of fifteen to work as a stenographer. She then began to take acting classes and changed her name to Barbara Stanwyck.

Stanwyck made her Broadway debut in 1927. She then moved to Hollywood and made her film debut in The Locked Door (1929). She went on to star in a number of films throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Some of her most notable films include Stella Dallas (1937), Double Indemnity (1944), and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). Stanwyck won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Double Indemnity.

In the 1950s, Stanwyck began to appear on television. She starred in the Western series The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1958-1959). She also starred in the soap opera The Big Valley (1965-1969).

Stanwyck married Robert Taylor in 1939. The couple divorced in 1951. Stanwyck then married actor Robert Wagner in 1963. The couple remained married until Stanwyck’s death in 1990.

Stanwyck died of congestive heart failure on January 20, 1990 at the age of 82.

General Info

Full Name	Barbara Stanwyck
Date Of Birth	July 16, 1907
Died	January 20, 1990, Santa Monica, California, United States
Height	1.65 m
Profession	Actor, Fashion Model
Education	Erasmus Hall High School
Nationality	American

Family

Spouse	Robert Taylor, Frank Fay
Children	Anthony Dion Fay
Parents	Catherine McGee Stevens, Byron Stevens
Siblings	Bert Stevens, Mildred Stevens, Maude Stevens, Mable Stevens

Accomplishments

Awards	Academy Honorary Award, AFI Life Achievement Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie, Grand Jury Prize...
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Actress, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star - Female
Movies	Double Indemnity, The Lady Eve, Ball of Fire, Stella Dallas, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Meet John Doe, Sorry, Wrong Number, Baby Face, Clash by Night, Forty Guns, Remember the Night, Lady of Burlesque, The File on Thelma Jordon, My Reputation, Ladies of Leisure, Executive Suite, Night Nurse, ...
TV Shows	The Colbys, The Thorn Birds, The Big Valley, The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0001766

Marks

#	Marks / Signs
1	Brooklyn accent
2	Her shapely legs
3	Frequently was cast as women who must deal with their low class standing
4	Husky voice

Salary

Title	Salary
Titanic (1953)	$75,000
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)	$60,000
Ever in My Heart (1933)	$50,000
Forbidden (1932)	$50,000

Quotes

#	Quote
1	(On making Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) "Five days I was handling it, starting the next day's work where I'd picked up, sustaining it all, and then I had two whole days to relax and not to worry about the character, and I tell you it was strange. It was really hard to pump myself up on Monday morning to try to feel that desperate tension."
2	(On her character in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) "Almost from the word go, she is way up there emotionally, and stays there day after day...I decided I'd prefer to jump in, bam, go, stay there, up, try to sustain it all the way and shoot the works."
3	[on performing her favorite title role in Stella Dallas (1937)] The task was to convince audiences that Stella's instincts were fine and noble even though, on the surface she was loud, flamboyant, and a bit vulgar.
4	Some kids are born with bad blood just like horses. When a parent has done everything possible, the only solution is to save yourself.
5	[In the 1960s, explaining her four-year absence from films after Forty Guns (1957)] Nobody asked me. They don't normally write parts for women my age because America is now a country of youth. We've matured and moved on. The past belongs to the past.
6	[on filming Titanic (1953)] The night we were making the scene of the dying ship in the outdoor tank at Twentieth, it was bitter cold. I was 47 feet up in the air in a lifeboat swinging on the davits. The water below was agitated into a heavy rolling mass and it was thick with other lifeboats full of women and children. I looked down and thought, "If one of these ropes snaps now, it's good-by for you". Then I looked up at the faces lined along the rail -those left behind to die with the ship. I thought of the men and women who had been through this thing in our time. We were re-creating an actual tragedy and I burst into tears. I shook with great racking sobs and couldn't stop.
7	I want to go on until they have to shoot me.
8	Attention embarrasses me. I don't like to be on display.
9	Career is too pompous a word. It was a job and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.
10	There's nothing more fun in the whole world than seeing a child open a present at Christmas. To have a six-year-old boy stroke a bicycle with his eyes and, not daring to touch, turn and ask, "Is it mine, Missy? Really mine?" That's part of my future. The rest is work. And, I hope, some wisdom.
11	Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
12	I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling, "Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck", and I'd think, "Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!"
13	It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career, even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.
14	[In 1939 on the fact that her fiancé, Robert Taylor, was four years younger than she] The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.
15	My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
16	Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.
17	[Referring to director Frank Capra] Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure, it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!
18	I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.
19	During Double Indemnity (1944), Fred MacMurray would go to rushes [viewings of daily completed shots]. I remember asking Fred, "How was I?" [Fred's response was] "I don't know about you, but I was wonderful!" Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves.

Facts

#	Fact
1	Caught bronchitis while filming The Thorn Birds (1983).
2	Started smoking when she was nine.
3	In Hollywood, as everywhere he went, Frank Fay did not make a lot of friends. A standard joke of the time went "who's got the biggest prick in Hollywood?" Answer: "Barbara Stanwyck." The womanizing, alcoholic Fay's career floundered, while Stanwyck's flourished for decades. In 1935 the two were divorced, and Fay continued his downward spiral, until 1944, when he was chosen to play Elwood P. Dowd in the original New York City Broadway production of "Harvey".
4	Through his friend Oscar Levant, Frank Fay met and married Barbara Stanwyck, then a young chorus girl who'd just gotten her first Broadway show (Burlesque, 1927) In 1929 they did a dramatic sketch, as "Fay and Stanwyck" at the Palace. Later that year, they were called to Hollywood, so Frank could star in the film "Show of Shows." Fay and Stanwyck's marriage and their experience in Hollywood later became the basis of a Hollywood movie - "A Star is Born".
5	Upon her death, she was cremated and the ashes scattered from a helicopter over Lone Pine, California, where she had made some of her Western films.
6	Although many would say that her greatest movie role was in Double Indemnity (1944), directed by Billy Wilder, she was an outspoken critic of Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), calling it obscene (although she admitted to not having seen it). However, there seems to have been no lasting animosity between them - when Stanwyck received her AFI Life Achievement Award, Wilder was amongst the most laudatory of those paying tribute to her.
7	She was known to be a very private lady.
8	Born at 8:55 PM.
9	Was considered for the title role in Mildred Pierce (1945).
10	A massive, 1000-page biography of Stanwyck, published in 2013 by Victoria Wilson, is merely the first volume of an ongoing narrative of the star, one that covers only the first 33 years of Stanwyck's life.
11	Stanwyck vehemently opposed the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. She felt that if someone from her disadvantaged background had risen to success, others should be able to do the same without government intervention or assistance.
12	Forty of the movies she appeared in in her 35-year-long career were screened through the month of December 2013 in special tribute at New York City's Film Forum.
13	Was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
14	Acting mentor and friends of Linda Evans and Lee Majors.
15	She was honored as Turner Classic Movie's Star of the Month for December 2012.
16	Was a heavy smoker.
17	Her sister-in-law, Caryl Lincoln, died in 1983.
18	She was very good friends with: Julie London, John Forsythe, Jane Wyman, Loretta Young, Jean Arthur, Bette Davis, Frank Capra, Fred MacMurray, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Tony Martin, Richard Basehart, Aaron Spelling, Robert Fuller, James Drury, John McIntire, Denny Miller, Bruce Dern, Rhonda Fleming, Leif Erickson, Gavin MacLeod, Pernell Roberts, Jeanne Cooper, Richard Anderson, L.Q. Jones, Barry Sullivan, William Conrad, Joan Crawford, Bill Quinn, Robert Conrad, James Stewart, Harold Gould, Frances Dee, James Whitmore and Richard Long.
19	Before she was an actress, she was a successful dancer and chorus girl.
20	She was a staunch Republican and conservative.
21	As of the age of four, after her mother died and her father, upset by his wife's death, abandoned his kids, Barbara was brought up by her elder sister.
22	In February 1955 she was mentioned to be one of the female stars of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) but she never made the film.
23	Profiled in book "Funny Ladies" by Stephen Silverman. [1999]
24	Stanwyck's father abandoned his children in mad grief after the death of his wife. Stanwyck then grew up in a series of foster homes.
25	Her father was a bricklayer.
26	Lived near Joan Crawford during her marriage to Frank Fay. According to Christina Crawford, Barbara scaled a fence on their property and stayed with the Crawfords for several days. Stanwyck and Crawford had first become friends when they were single young actresses.
27	Godmother of Tori Spelling.
28	She was a member of The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a rabidly right-wing political action group during the McCarthy-era "blacklisting" period in the early and mid-1950s. It counted among its members Ginger Rogers, Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Irene Dunne.
29	Peter Breck, Lee Majors and Linda Evans were said to be huge fans of hers, as little children. As adults all three co-starred with her in the hit western series The Big Valley (1965).
30	Her former The Big Valley (1965), co-stars, Peter Breck and Linda Evans, both have made guest appearances on her co-star's, Lee Majors, popular 1980s TV series, The Fall Guy (1981), but on different episodes.
31	Best remembered by the public for her starring role as matriarch Victoria Barkley on The Big Valley (1965).
32	She twice played a character named Jessica Drummond in two completely different movies: My Reputation (1946) and Forty Guns (1957).
33	Was considered for the role of Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) after Claudette Colbert was forced to pull out of the project due to back injury. However the part was given to Bette Davis, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance.
34	In 1957 Tony, her adopted son, was arrested for trying to sell lewd pictures while waiting to cash his unemployment check. When questioned by the press about his famous mother, he replied, "We don't speak." She saw him only a few times after his childhood.
35	When she was awarded an Honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement, the statuette was presented to her by John Travolta who later confessed that the experience was his supreme Oscar moment. Stanwyck had been a Travolta family favorite for years. [1982]
36	Throughout her career she was known for her kindness and patience with younger performers. Marilyn Monroe, who worked with Stanwyck in the 1952 film Clash by Night (1952) said that Stanwyck was the only member of Hollywood's older generation who was kind to her.
37	Profiled in "Back in the Saddle: Essays on Western Film and Television Actors", Gary Yoggy, ed. (McFarland, 1998).
38	Profiled in "Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames" bu Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner (McFarland, 2004).
39	She with Linda Evans in two series: The Big Valley (1965) and Dynasty (1981).
40	Planned to play the lead in Mildred Pierce (1945), but Joan Crawford was faster and got the role.
41	Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 796-798. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
42	In Italy, almost all of her films were dubbed by Lidia Simoneschi. She was occasionally dubbed by Tina Lattanzi and Marcella Rovena. As Leona Stevenson in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), she was dubbed by Andreina Pagnani. This was the only time the Italian actress lent her voice to Stanwyck.
43	William Holden was considered to be too lightweight for the lead role in Golden Boy (1939), but Stanwyck urged producers to keep him in the picture and it was through her efforts he was kept in the picture, and the role made him a star. In 1978, at the The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978), before starting the presentation of the sound award, Holden publicly thanked her for what she did. She nearly broke down in tears and kissed Holden, and the exchange received thunderous audience applause.
44	A Star Is Born (1937) starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March is said to be modeled after Stanwyck's rise to stardom and first husband Frank Fay's descent into obscurity.
45	Was best friends for many years with Frank Sinatra's first wife, Nancy.
46	Her performance as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944) is ranked #58 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time list.
47	Her performance as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944) is ranked #98 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time list (2006).
48	Turned down the role of Angela Channing on Falcon Crest (1981).
49	Her papers are in the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, PO Box 3924, Laramie, WY 82071.
50	Attended Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, New York before dropping out at age 14.
51	Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1751 Vine St.
52	Ailing, she was replaced by Susan Hayward in Heat of Anger (1972), which was to have been a pilot for a prospective TV series to be called "Fitzgerald and Pride."
53	Her siblings were named Maude, Mable, Mildred ("Millie"), and Malcolm Byron ("Bert") Stevens. Her parents were Byron and Catherine McGee Stevens.
54	She did not have a funeral and has no grave. Her ashes are scattered in Lone Pine, California.
55	In 1985, her house was destroyed in a fire. She was upset to lose all of Robert Taylor's love letters.
56	In 1981 she was beaten and robbed in her bedroom by an intruder who woke her up at 1:00 in the morning.
57	She lost a kidney in 1971.
58	She became estranged from her son in February 1951.
59	Picked up the starring role in Ball of Fire (1941) after Ginger Rogers dropped out.
60	Her stormy marriage to Frank Fay finally ended after a drunken brawl, during which he tossed their adopted son, Dion, into the swimming pool. Despite rumours of affairs with Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford, Stanwyck wed Robert Taylor, who had gay rumours of his own to dispel. Their marriage started off on a sour note when his possessive mother demanded he spend his wedding night with her rather than with Barbara.
61	She was voted the 40th "Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Entertainment Weekly.
62	Her wicked turn as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944) was ranked #8 on the American Film Institute's "100 Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains" list.
63	Was listed #11 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years of The Greatest Screen Legends."
64	Worked briefly as a fashion model in the late 1920s.
65	Her son, Dion Anthony "Tony" Fay, was born in February 1932. He was adopted on December 5, 1932.
66	Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1973.
67	Her mother died when she was accidentally knocked off a trolley by a drunk. Barbara was four at the time.
68	She had English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry.
69	Sister of actor Bert Stevens.
70	American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. [1987]
71	According to biographical film Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991), Stanwyck became a model for women actors. Such stars as Sally Field and Virginia Madsen have publicly pointed to Stanwyck as their model.
72	Often called "The Best Actress Who Never Won an Oscar."
73	In 1944, when she earned $400,000, the government listed her as the nation's highest-paid woman.
74	Her nickname among co-workers was "Missy" or "The Queen."
75	Her stage name was inspired by a theatrical poster that read "Jane Stanwyck in 'Barbara Frietchie.'".
76	Sister-in-law of actress Caryl Lincoln.
77	Godmother of Bobbie Poledouris.

Pictures

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Movies

Actress

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Colbys	1985-1986	TV Series	Constance Colby
Dynasty	1985	TV Series	Constance Colby
The Thorn Birds	1983	TV Mini-Series	Mary Carson
Charlie's Angels	1980	TV Series	Toni
The Letters	1973	TV Movie	Geraldine Parkington
A Taste of Evil	1971	TV Movie	Miriam Jennings
The House That Would Not Die	1970	TV Movie	Ruth Bennett
The Big Valley	1965-1969	TV Series	Victoria Barkley
Calhoun: County Agent	1964	TV Movie	Abby Rayner
The Night Walker	1964		Irene Trent
Roustabout	1964		Maggie Morgan
Wagon Train	1961-1964	TV Series	Kate Crawley / Caroline Casteel / Maud Frazer
The Untouchables	1962-1963	TV Series	Lt. Agatha Stewart
The Dick Powell Theatre	1962	TV Series	Irene Phillips
Walk on the Wild Side	1962		Jo Courtney
Rawhide	1962	TV Series	Nora Holloway
General Electric Theater	1961	TV Series	Lili Parrish
The Joey Bishop Show	1961	TV Series	Dora
The Barbara Stanwyck Show	1960-1961	TV Series	Trixie Callahan / Josephine Little
Zane Grey Theater	1958-1959	TV Series	Leona Butler / Regan Moore / Julie Holman / ...
The Real McCoys	1959	TV Series	Barbara Stanwyck
Alcoa Theatre	1958	TV Series	Midge Varney
Goodyear Theatre	1958	TV Series	Midge Varney
Forty Guns	1957		Jessica Drummond
Trooper Hook	1957		Cora Sutliff
Crime of Passion	1957		Kathy Ferguson Doyle
The Ford Television Theatre	1956	TV Series	Irene Frazier
These Wilder Years	1956		Ann Dempster
The Maverick Queen	1956		Kit Banion
There's Always Tomorrow	1955		Norma Miller Vale
Escape to Burma	1955		Gwen Moore
The Violent Men	1955		Martha Wilkison
Cattle Queen of Montana	1954		Sierra Nevada Jones
Executive Suite	1954		Julia O. Tredway
Witness to Murder	1954		Cheryl Draper
The Moonlighter	1953		Rela
Blowing Wild	1953		Marina Conway
All I Desire	1953		Naomi Murdoch
Titanic	1953		Julia Sturges
Jeopardy	1953		Helen Stilwin
Clash by Night	1952		Mae Doyle D'Amato
The Man with a Cloak	1951		Lorna Bounty
To Please a Lady	1950		Regina Forbes
The Furies	1950		Vance Jeffords
No Man of Her Own	1950		Helen Ferguson Patrice Harkness
The File on Thelma Jordon	1950		Thelma Jordon
East Side, West Side	1949		Jessie Bourne
The Lady Gambles	1949		Joan Boothe
Sorry, Wrong Number	1948		Leona Stevenson
B.F.'s Daughter	1948		'Polly' Fulton
Variety Girl	1947		Barbara Stanwyck
Cry Wolf	1947		Sandra Marshall
The Other Love	1947		Karen Duncan
The Two Mrs. Carrolls	1947		Sally Morton Carroll
California	1947		Lily Bishop
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers	1946		Martha Ivers
The Bride Wore Boots	1946		Sally Warren
My Reputation	1946		Jessica Drummond
Hollywood Victory Caravan	1945	Short	Barbara Stanwyck
Christmas in Connecticut	1945		Elizabeth Lane
Hollywood Canteen	1944		Barbara Stanwyck
Double Indemnity	1944		Phyllis Dietrichson
Lady of Burlesque	1943		Deborah Hoople, aka Dixie Daisy
Flesh and Fantasy	1943		Joan Stanley (Episode 3)
The Gay Sisters	1942		Fiona Gaylord
The Great Man's Lady	1942		Hannah Sempler Hoyt
Ball of Fire	1941		Sugarpuss O'Shea
You Belong to Me	1941		Helen Hunt
Meet John Doe	1941		Ann Mitchell
The Lady Eve	1941		Jean
Remember the Night	1940		Lee Leander
Golden Boy	1939		Lorna Moon
Union Pacific	1939		Mollie Monahan
The Mad Miss Manton	1938		Melsa Manton
Always Goodbye	1938		Margot Weston
Breakfast for Two	1937		Valentine Ransome
Stella Dallas	1937		Stella Dallas
This Is My Affair	1937		Lil Duryea
Internes Can't Take Money	1937		Janet Haley
The Plough and the Stars	1936		Nora Clitheroe
Banjo on My Knee	1936		Pearl Elliott Holley
His Brother's Wife	1936		Rita Wilson Claybourne
The Bride Walks Out	1936		Carolyn Martin
A Message to Garcia	1936		Senorita Raphaelita Maderos
Annie Oakley	1935		Annie Oakley
Red Salute	1935		Drue Van Allen
The Woman in Red	1935		Shelby Barret Wyatt
The Secret Bride	1934		Ruth Vincent
A Lost Lady	1934		Marian
Gambling Lady	1934		Lady Lee
Ever in My Heart	1933		Mary Archer Wilbrandt
Baby Face	1933		Lily
Ladies They Talk About	1933		Nan
The Bitter Tea of General Yen	1933		Megan
The Purchase Price	1932		Joan Gordon
So Big!	1932		Selina Peake De Jong
Shopworn	1932		Kitty
Forbidden	1932		Lulu
The Miracle Woman	1931		Florence Fallon
Night Nurse	1931		Lora Hart
The Stolen Jools	1931	Short	Mrs. Frank Fay
Ten Cents a Dance	1931		Barbara O'Neill
Illicit	1931		Anne Vincent
Ladies of Leisure	1930		Kay Arnold
Mexicali Rose	1929		Mexicali Rose
The Locked Door	1929		Ann Carter
Dance Magic	1927
Broadway Nights	1927		Fan Dancer (uncredited)

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
The Man with a Cloak	1951	performer: "Another Yesterday" - uncredited
California	1947	performer: "LILY-I-LAY-DE-O", "SAID I TO MY HEART, SAID I"
Lady of Burlesque	1943	performer: "Take It Off the E-String"
The Gay Sisters	1942	performer: "Good Night, Ladies" - uncredited
Ball of Fire	1941	performer: "Drum Boogie" 1941 - uncredited
Remember the Night	1940	performer: "A Perfect Day" 1910 - uncredited
This Is My Affair	1937	performer: "I Hum a Waltz" 1937, "The Fountain in the Park" 1884 - uncredited
Banjo on My Knee	1936	performer: "Where the Lazy River Goes By" 1936
A Lost Lady	1934	performer: "The Very Thought Of You" 1934 - uncredited
The Purchase Price	1932	performer: "Take Me Away" 1932 - uncredited
The Miracle Woman	1931	performer: "The Farmer in the Dell" - uncredited
Illicit	1931	performer: "Maybe It's Love" 1930 - uncredited

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
El amor me queda grande	2014	Short dedicatee

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbara Stanwyck	1987	TV Special documentary	Herself - Guest of Honor
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend	1987	Documentary	Mae Doyle
The 43rd Annual Golden Globe Awards	1986	TV Special	Herself - Winner: Cecil B. DeMille Award
The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards	1983	TV Special	Herself - Winner: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special
The 54th Annual Academy Awards	1982	TV Special documentary	Herself - Honorary Award Recipient
The 50th Annual Academy Awards	1978	TV Special	Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Sound
The 15th Annual Publicists Guild Awards	1978	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda	1978	TV Special documentary	Herself
Film Night	1971	TV Series	Herself
The Joey Bishop Show	1968	TV Series	Herself
The Merv Griffin Show	1967	TV Series	Herself
The World's Greatest Showman: The Legend of Cecil B. DeMille	1963	TV Movie documentary	Herself
The 20th Annual Golden Globes Awards	1963	TV Special	Herself - Presenter: Samuel Goldwyn Award
The 14th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards	1962	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
The Barbara Stanwyck Show	1960-1961	TV Series	Herself - Hostess / Herself-Hostess / Josephine Little / ...
The 13th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards	1961	TV Special	Herself - Winner: Outstanding Performance by an Lead Actress in a Series and Presenter
The Jack Benny Program	1952-1959	TV Series	Herself / Bella Manningham
The Christophers	1957	TV Series	Herself - Guest Host
The Loretta Young Show	1955	TV Series	Herself - Guest Hostess
Breakdowns of 1942	1942	Short	Herself (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No 6: Hollywood Recreations	1940	Documentary short	Herself
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 9	1939	Documentary short	Herself, Horse Show Attendee
Hollywood Goes to Town	1938	Short documentary	Herself
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6	1938	Documentary short	Herself
Things You Never See on the Screen	1935	Short	Herself
Round About Hollywood	1931	Documentary short	Herself
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 8	1931	Documentary short	Herself
The Voice of Hollywood No. 14	1930	Short	Herself (uncredited)

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Decision	1958	TV Series	Irene Frazier
When the Talkies Were Young	1955	Short	Lora Hart (uncredited)
The Ed Sullivan Show	1953	TV Series	Herself
And the Oscar Goes To...	2014	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Arena	2012	TV Series documentary
A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!	2011	TV Movie documentary
Pioneers of Television	2011	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself / Victoria Barkley from the Big Valley
Comic Relief 2009	2009	TV Special
Warner at War	2008	TV Movie documentary
Diálogos de cine	2008	TV Movie	Phyllis Dietrichson
American Masters	2001-2008	TV Series documentary	Lily Powers / Herself
Spisok korabley	2008	Documentary
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood	2008	TV Movie documentary	Various Roles
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	2007	TV Series	Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity
Elvis Presley: Hot Shots and Cool Clips Volume 3	2007	Video documentary	Herself
Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema	2007	Documentary	Herself
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb	2007	Video	Dixie
La tele de tu vida	2007	TV Series	Mary Carson
Billy Wilder Speaks	2006	TV Movie documentary	Herself
NCIS	2005	TV Series	Herself, Actress in 'No Man of Her Own' film clip
... A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	2005	TV Movie documentary
Christmas from Hollywood	2003	Video documentary	Herself
Complicated Women	2003	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller	2002	TV Movie documentary	Jessica Drummond
The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969	2002	Video documentary	Herself
Pulp Cinema	2001	Video documentary	Herself
Hollywood Remembers	2000	TV Series documentary
Annie Get Your Gun Intro with Susan Lucci	2000	Video documentary short	Annie Oakley
The Lady with the Torch	1999	Documentary	Herself
Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras	1998	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Biography	1997	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful	1996	TV Special documentary	Herself
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies	1995	TV Movie documentary	actress 'The Furies' (uncredited)
The Casting Couch	1995	Video documentary
100 Years at the Movies	1994	TV Short documentary	Herself
Mo' Funny: Black Comedy in America	1993	TV Special documentary	Melsa Manton
The 65th Annual Academy Awards	1993	TV Special	Herself
Oscar's Greatest Moments	1992	Video documentary	Herself
Fonda on Fonda	1992	TV Movie documentary	Actress in 'The Lady Eve'
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire	1991	TV Movie documentary	Herself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon	1988	TV Special documentary	Herself
Moonlighting	1987	TV Series	Jean
Showbiz Goes to War	1982	TV Movie
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid	1982		Leona Hastings-Forrest
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter	1982	TV Movie documentary	Actress - 'The Lady Eve' (uncredited)
The 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards	1981	TV Special	Herself
This Is Elvis	1981		Herself (uncredited)
That's Action	1977	Documentary	Herself
Brother Can You Spare a Dime	1975	Documentary	Herself
Film Review	1968	TV Mini-Series	Helen Ferguson / Patrice Harkness
The Love Goddesses	1965	Documentary	Herself

Awards

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2000	OFTA Film Hall of Fame	Online Film & Television Association	Acting
1998	In Memoriam Award	Golden Boot Awards
1987	Life Achievement Award	American Film Institute, USA
1986	Cecil B. DeMille Award	Golden Globes, USA
1984	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television	The Thorn Birds (1983)
1983	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special	The Thorn Birds (1983)
1983	Golden Apple	Golden Apple Awards	Female Star of the Year	Together with Ann-Margret
1982	Honorary Award	Academy Awards, USA		For superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting.
1981	Gala Tribute	Film Society of Lincoln Center
1981	Career Achievement Award	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
1968	Most Popular Female Star	Photoplay Awards
1967	Most Popular Female Star	Photoplay Awards
1967	Life Achievement Award	Screen Actors Guild Awards
1966	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series	The Big Valley (1965)
1961	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead)	The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960)
1961	Golden Apple	Golden Apple Awards	Most Cooperative Actress
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	On 8 February 1960. At 1751 Vine Street.
1957	Special Award	Photoplay Awards		For superb craftsmanship in meeting the challenge of 75 film roles and for her sympathetic counsel ... More
1954	Special Jury Prize	Venice Film Festival		Executive Suite (1954)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1968	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best TV Star - Female	The Big Valley (1965)
1968	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series	The Big Valley (1965)
1967	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best TV Star - Female	The Big Valley (1965)
1967	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series	The Big Valley (1965)
1966	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best TV Star - Female	The Big Valley (1965)
1949	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
1945	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Double Indemnity (1944)
1942	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Ball of Fire (1941)
1938	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Stella Dallas (1937)