Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck (1907–1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood''s most talented leading women—and America''s highest-paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes as a child, she took a number of low-wage jobs while she determinedly made the connections that landed her in successful Broadway productions. Stanwyck then acted in a stream of high-quality films f...