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Acting

Barbara Stanwyck

Career: Active from 1929 to 2008, with a break from 1983 to 2004, with up to 5 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 85
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: Double Indemnity
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 77 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Barbara Stanwyck Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.8, average 5.4
Fantasy
0.3, average 1.7
Pop Culture
0.8, average 2.2
Absurdist Humor
0.8, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Hollywood 12
Melodrama 9
Psychological Tension 8
Social Commentary 7
Moral Ambiguity 7
Romantic Drama 6
Character-Driven 6
Character Study 5
Strong Female Lead 5
Historical Setting 4
Pre-Code Drama 4
Fatal Attraction 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

107

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

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2000s

4 titles · average score 67

Warner at War

as (archive footage)

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

67

as Various Roles (archive footage)

Bad Girls Behind Bars

as Nan Taylor (archive footage)

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

as Jessica Drummond (archive footage)

1980s

6 titles · average score 64

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

74

as archive footage

The Colbys

62

TV show · as Constance Colby

The Thorn Birds

50

TV show · as Mary Carson

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

69

as (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)

Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

Dynasty

66

TV show · as Constance Colby

1970s

4 titles · average score 54

Charlie's Angels

44

TV show · as Toni Blake

The Letters

65

as Geraldine Parkington

A Taste of Evil

62

as Miriam Jennings

The House That Would Not Die

47

as Ruth Bennett

1960s

7 titles · average score 62

The Big Valley

69

TV show · as Victoria Barkley

Roustabout

48

as Maggie Morgan

The Night Walker

61

as Irene Trent

Calhoun

as Abby Rayner

Walk on the Wild Side

62

as Jo Courtney

The Dick Powell Show

65

TV show · as Irene Phillips

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

69

TV show · as Chris Mathews / Fran Elick

1950s

25 titles · average score 63

Forty Guns

76

as Jessica Drummond

There's Always Tomorrow

70

as Norma Miller Vale

Crime of Passion

66

as Kathy Ferguson

The Violent Men

67

as Martha Wilkison

Executive Suite

86

as Julia O. Tredway

Witness to Murder

60

as Cheryl Draper

Cattle Queen of Montana

47

as Sierra Nevada Jones

Titanic

67

as Julia Sturges

Clash by Night

57

as Mae Doyle D'Amato

The Man with a Cloak

67

as Lorna Bounty

The Furies

82

as Vance Jeffords

No Man of Her Own

71

as Helen Ferguson

1940s

25 titles · average score 65

The File on Thelma Jordon

67

as Thelma Jordon

Sorry, Wrong Number

79

as Leona Cotterell Stevenson

My Reputation

66

as Jessica Drummond

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

86

as Martha Ivers

Christmas in Connecticut

74

as Elizabeth Lane

Double Indemnity

90

as Phyllis Dietrichson

Lady of Burlesque

66

as Dixie Daisy

Flesh and Fantasy

75

as Joan Stanley (segment 3)

The Lady Eve

86

as Jean Harrington

Meet John Doe

74

as Ann Mitchell

Ball of Fire

83

as Sugarpuss O’Shea

Remember the Night

81

as Lee Leander

1930s

33 titles · average score 61

Union Pacific

74

as Mollie Monahan

Golden Boy

70

as Lorna Moon

The Mad Miss Manton

73

as Melsa Manton

Stella Dallas

78

as Stella Dallas

His Brother's Wife

44

as Rita Wilson Claybourne

Annie Oakley

62

as Annie Oakley

Baby Face

88

as Lily Powers

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

66

as Megan

Ladies They Talk About

62

as Nan Taylor

Shopworn

59

as Kitty Lane

Forbidden

65

as Lulu Smith

The Purchase Price

59

as Joan Gordon Gilson

1920s

3 titles · average score 57

The Locked Door

60

as Ann Carter

Mexicali Rose

55

as Mexicali Rose

Broadway Nights

as Showgirl (uncredited)