Barbara Stanwyck

After her death, biographies began to report these rumors as fact, with several sources who had known both Stanwyck and Taylor willing to go on record and verify these claims. Gwen appeared in Kevin's Dogma, in a small role as a bus clerk. During her life, Stanwyck was the subject of rumor that she was a lesbian, and that her marriage to the actor Robert Taylor was a "lavender marriage", designed to conceal the fact that both were homosexual. Director Kevin Smith was a fan of the movie, particularly a scene in it wherein, in an imagined sequence, some of a character's friends chastise her for "selling out" and sleeping with a guy, and used it as an inspiration for his rather unique take on a similiar theme in his own film Chasing Amy. Her last starring role was in 1985, in The Colbys. In it she plays a young woman whose friends help her in the (lesbian) dating scene. In her later years, she also starred in television, notably in the 1960s Western series, The Big Valley. An early film Gwen starred in, for which she also helped produce with her then-girlfriend, Rose Troche, was called Go Fish.

She received an Academy Honorary Award "for superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting" in 1982. Guinevere Turner and I Shot Andy Warhol director Mary Harron wrote the screenplay which ended up being selected for the film version of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Stanwyck starred in almost a hundred films during her career and received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress: Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). Amoungst other recent films, she starred in the 1997 British BDSM/Fetish comedy film Preaching to the Perverted as the New York dominatrix "Tanya Cheex". The play starred a British actress named Joan Stanwyck. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on May 23, 1968. She took her stage name from the name of a play, "Barbara Frietchie", about a fictional Civil War heroine. Guinevere Turner is a lesbian actress and writer.

She was born in New York City, and her mother died when she was only four. Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Katherine Stevens) (July 16, 1907 - January 20, 1990) was an American film and television actress. "Barbara Stanwyck, Actress, Dead at 82." The New York Times. January 22, 1990. D11. Flint.

Peter B. Broadway Nights (1927). Mexicali Rose (aka The Girl from Mexico) (1929). The Locked Door (1929).

Ladies of Leisure (1930). Illicit (1931). Ten Cents a Dance (1931). The Slippery Pearls (aka The Stolen Jools) (short) (1931).

The Miracle Woman (1931). Night Nurse (1931). Forbidden (1932). Shopworn (1932).

So Big! (1932). The Purchase Price (1932). The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933). Baby Face (1933).

Ladies They Talk About (aka Women in Prison) (1933). Ever in My Heart (1933). A Lost Lady (aka Courageous) (1934)*. The Secret Bride (aka Concealment) (1934).

Gambling Lady (1934). Annie Oakley (1935). The Woman in Red (1935). Red Salute (aka Arms and the Girl) (aka Her Enlisted Man) (aka Her Uncle Sam) (aka Runaway Daughter) (1935).

His Brother's Wife (aka Lady of the Tropics) (1936). A Message to Garcia (1936). The Plough and the Stars (1936). The Bride Walks Out (1936).

Banjo on My Knee (1936). This Is My Affair (aka His Affair) (1937). Stella Dallas (1937). Breakfast for Two (1937).

Internes Can't Take Money (aka You Can't Take Money) (1937). The Mad Miss Manton (1938). Always Goodbye (1938). Golden Boy (1939).

Union Pacific (1939). Remember the Night (1940). Meet John Doe (aka John Doe, Dynamite) (1941). You Belong to Me (aka Good Morning, Doctor) (1941).

Ball of Fire (aka The Professor and the Burlesque Queen) (1941). The Lady Eve (1941). The Great Man's Lady (1942). The Gay Sisters (1942).

Lady of Burlesque (aka The G-String Murders) (aka Striptease Lady) (1943). Flesh and Fantasy (aka Six Destinies) (1943). Double Indemnity (1944). Hollywood Canteen (1944).

Christmas in Connecticut (aka Indiscretion) (1945). My Reputation (1946). The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946). California (1946).

The Bride Wore Boots (1946). Carrolls (1947). The Two Mrs. Variety Girl (1947).

The Other Love (1947). Cry Wolf (1947). Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). F.'s Daughter (aka Polly Fulton) (1948).

B. No Man of Her Own (aka I Married a Dead Man) (1949). The Lady Gambles (1949). The File on Thelma Jordan, (aka Thelma Jordan) (1949).