Acting lesson from Barbara Stanwyck
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- "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!"
Barbara Stanwyck
Scene from "The thorn birds"
Apparently she did this in one take and drew an ovation from the crew. Stanwyck is class all the way.
Grande attrice …anche tu hai fatto parte di quel …cast …meraviglioso …che ci ha regalato …quella splendida fiction ❤
That is why she is such an amazing and incredible actress and will always challenge Katherine Hepburn and Bette Davis. What a performance from "The Thorn Bird" Barbara Stanwyck gave and which is why she got the Emmy for that year.
She is so believable in this scene. And the writers hit the nail on the head as to how most of us feel about aging. Perfect dialogue, perfect delivery.
@@nanny287Beautifully said. I am a devout Catholic and at 67 still battle the same temptations with which the devil tempted Christ. Mary Carson yielded to them during her final hours on this Earth, but she knew and understood the struggles of the human heart. Barbara Stanwyck was just magnificent here.
She nails this slow torture on the head. The torment no one understands until it happens to them and it takes us all. Aging is a curse no matter how you try to dress it is with wisdom and experience. To be frail and unable to live life fully is a cruel prison. To be “to old” yet in the mind you are forever young. Even worse would be to fall in love with someone younger. People always assume it’s physically, but that is rarely the case. Worse still to fall in love with a soul whose body is young while yours is expiring. This she truly understands in this performance
When she screamed "I am still young" a montage of all her 30s and 40s movies flashed through my mind
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And those great legs she had. What wonderful gams!
I do too! Every single time!! 😢😢😢
"Inside this stupid body I am still young!" Everything she does in this scene connects with every person of a certain age who may catch the reflection of themselves in a mirror and experience that fleeting but undeniable shock.
To have the guts to deliver a devastating line like that with such conviction at age 74, considering the impact of its honesty on the older viewers of the miniseries, just blows me away. It's one of those moments in film in which a character says what no one dares to say and everyone tries not to think in real life.
@@gnirolnamlerf593 It's terrifying because it's true. It's the elephant in the room that nobody dare speak off.
that's acting at it's best. Miss Stanwyck was, and will always be one of the best actresses on the history of screen
I AGREE WITH YOU 100#.
A better sound film actress in the 20th Century did not exist. Her performances hold up better than any of the movie queens (Davis, Garbo, Hepburn, Dietrich, Crawford, Shearer) of her day and what you see here speaks for itself. Simply the best.
Perhaps the best👍💥
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@@wovfmi agree with you
In my opinion this scene is one of the best acting sequences of all times!
I'm my opinion too
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I AGREE WITH YOU 100 %.
Im 70 years old and I understand yes Im young .
I read a Frank Capra biography years ago which covered his relationship with Barbara Stanwyck. He said that she was best on the first take of a scene. Capra said that her emotions were just below the surface of her personality and that the first shot at a scene were the most raw for her. If she had to retake the scene the magic of her delivery would lessen, so he always tried to film her accordingly. She became well known among directors for her ability to nail the scene right out of the shoot, flawlessly. Ms Stanwyck really shows that skill here.
Richard Chamberlain was an extremely accomplished actor. She just decimated him with one of the all time greatest scenes caught on film.
Wow! Such a powerful and moving scene! Of course, you wouldn't expect anything less from the legendary Barbara Stanwyck. This scene should be mandatory viewing by ANY aspiring actress OR actor!
Absolutely (should be mandatory viewing for any aspiring actress or actor).
Love Barbara Stanwyck
Just FYI, it was noted that when Barbara Stanwyck started in movies she always was the "director's favorite- why? She was always on time, never missed her cue, and gave more than 100% of her acting skills to her films. Now we know why she was the director's favorite she worked constantly and when she wasn't getting parts she went into TV and guess what she even got her own TV show. This to me shows determination as well as spunk. She made so many movies from the 30s up into the 80s. What a career Miss Stanwyck had and in her late years, she performed at the top of her profession. Always loved Barbara who was my favorite!
*In my near 7 decades of watching television and films BARBARA STANWYCK is the BEST EVER ACTOR I have ever seen, to this day, imho.*
Greatest scene ever. Barbara stanwyck was both pathetic and touching. And what she says is sadly true. "inside of this stupid body,I AM STILL YOUNG,i still feel,i still want and i still love you"..desperate but true! Love isn't a matter of age but of feelings and heart and when the body ages the heart still beats inside.A powerful scene.
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You GOT it.
True, and well said. Thank goodness her work is captured on film . Acting is an art and craft form. She was one of the very best at it. And kind & generous to others. When given awards she thanked those behind the scenes and other film people. A class act!🌹👍❤️
"Let me tell you something, Cardinal de Bricassard. About old age and that God of yours. That vengeful God who ruins our bodies and leaves us with only enough wit for regret...Inside this stupid body I am still young! I still feel! I still want! I still dream! And I still love you!! OH GOD how much!!!"
Stanwyck won her Emmy on the strength of a single scene and that isn't easy to do.
such a horribly tragic dialogue!!! 😢😢😢
I only saw this when it first aired on television, and it's the only scene I can remember. That's how powerful it is.
but so well delivered!!!!
Me too. I saw the series and never forgot how powerful this scene was and the point she was making. I was lots younger then but this performance was so good even then I got the sad truth of what she was saying. Now that Im an old guy also, it certainly rings true. There are a handful of scenes in cinema that we all remember and consider truly timeless, this one here is one of them for me. Bravo Ms. Stanwyck.
I thought she said '' oh God I'm right''.
This scene brings tears to my eyes seeing her here in the now and remembering her in all her movies. Stanwyck literally transcends time.
I read this somewhere that when Barbara Stanwyck finished this scene with Richard Chamberlain the crew gave Ms. Stanwyck a large applaud for her performance. Gosh. I wished I was there to see her in person performing this incredible scene. What an amazing actress! Missy you are definitely missed. RIP Thank you for uploading this magnificent piece from "The Thorn Birds."
I was there. You could hear a pin drop. Many were in tears. It was a very special moment.
To The TerryE from jennifer86010 In response to your comment on You-Tube : "I was there. You could hear a pin drop. Many were in tears, It was a very special moment". About Barbara Stanwyck's performance with Richard Chamberlain....I'm a fan of Barbara Stanwyck. I read about her life story, starting out as an almost orphaned child, living in the streets with nothing, begging just to survive. . She was quoted as saying "All I want is perhaps some day to have
enough food to eat and a warm coat for winter". Through shear will and determination, she survived and eventually became an actress, then a movie star, and then a really big movie star. Barbara, who not many years earlier was begging in the street for food, became the highest paid woman in America.
She never forgot her beginnings, and she treated all the stage hands, grips, workers and laborers on movie sets with respect and love, calling them by name, and asking about their families. She sent gifts to them at Christmas. She paid for their children's schooling and their family medical bills.
She was loved and adored by everyone who worked with and knew her, not because she was generous, but because she never stopped caring for others. She always treated people with respect and thoughtfulness, and she always shared her fame and good fortune. I can only hope that she is in a very special heaven, where she dines like a queen and has an entire warehouse full of warm winter coats.
TheTerryE a wonderful human being.
what a beautiful tribute to the most amazing woman I admired and idolized since the age of 13. I am now 71 and I still idolize her
@@TheTerryE who are you?
I think Barbara Stanwyck in this scene delivers the single greatest performance in film history.
One of, at least... so very tragic.
Agreed.
Magici …unici …memorabili ❤
I agree !!!
It’s not an over the top drawn out monologue that others are famous for and yet it’s brevity and message stays with you so thought provokingly so because her few words are so powerfully delivered with the roar of a lion while the gentle vulnerability of her delicate spirit gives way to her surrendering to and defiantly accepting her aging and decline.
The tear at the last second... incredible!
And inside, behind her eyes, she was still young, just like when she was young, she seemed to have an old soul. Magnificent.
beautifully said
Stanwyck always had dead eyes - she hasn't got a face for expression at all, never did have and in this she's hammy. People praise here simply because she was old - that doesn't make it good.
@@MarthaMansbridge It fits the role. She is like a child having a tantrum. She can't get what she wants. Ive seen dozens of her movies I've not seen her as hammy.
@@MarthaMansbridgeonly you think like this. Are you a actress or movie director?
l watched this scene (and movie) years ago when it first was shown on television. I have never ever forgotten this well written scene. Stanwyck's performance was riveting. I was young then and I understood. I'm old now and understand all the better. I'm as moved today as I was in my youth.
same here I was in my early 20's..older now and although I could not relate to being old and wanting, needing love that was not attainable to me, I wept then and I wept now , amazing talent, she is missed..crazy to that Richard is now near 80 and 41-42 when he made this, he looked much younger than that @ the time, I would say he looked in his middle to upper 30's in the Thorn Birds, a truly beautiful man!
I imagine Miss S was aware and moved by those words as well. I believe she won an Emmy for this show .🏆🏆🏆
wow !! That woman can give a powerful performance !! She really knows how to deliver.
Frank Capra, who made movies with her when she was a young woman, said of her "When she turns it on, everything else. Stops." And it was just as true 30 and 40 years later.
Powerful and wrenching! A great actress. A great lady.
You can't hide honesty - & that's her great legacy.
Wonderful actress with that unforgettable flat, dead-pan voice, a joy to listen to. She should have received an Oscar for Double Indemnity and Sorry, Wrong Number. Great performances. RIP darlin'. You'll not be forgotten. Cheers.
And/or Stella Dallas.
mark prescott if she hadn’t been an actress independent of the studio systems, she would have won oscars, no doubt about it. They didn’t promote the non-contract players. I think she was one of the most natural actresses hollywood ever had, certainly one of the most affable
Blame those Oscar losses on JEALOUSY. At the height of self-improvement I've seen (close?) friends turn on me rather than applaud my achievements. Such is human nature, and in Hollywood I imagine this phenomenon is intensely magnified. People just can't stand to feel left behind. Barbara probably had none of this jealousy inside, and she never rested on her laurels. Her mission here on earth was one of self competition, the mark of true champions.
…& Meet John Doe one of those classic Frank Capra movies that has everything in it, including the powerful Barbara Stanwyck performance…that should have won an Oscar
I've watched this scene many times and it still gives me chills. What a wonderful actress she was. I'm glad we still have her in her films.
saw a documentary on her life years ago and they said that after this scene the entire crew broke out into sudden applause!!!
One of the best actresses that have ever walk this planet, the one and only Barbara Stanwyck!
it's a short scene but so great that one could write volumes about it. I do not know what to say. Purely perfect. forever
Such an outstanding and unforgettable performance by Miss Stanwyck. She would have certainly won an Oscar as well.
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She did win an Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Special for The Thorn Birds.
acting in a level beyond human comprehension well done Barbara
Barbara Stanwyck was by far the best thing in this series. :-)
Definitely
BRAVO,BRAVO Ms Stanwick, what a performance!! you derserved that Emmy...big time RIP
The woman, even at this advanced age never lost a thing off of her fastball. From loose woman (Baby Face) to comic seductress (Lady Eve) to murderess (Double Indemnity) to this - Babs was always on her game. Over half a century of outstanding performances. Can anybody name a contender to matching this record of quality and longevity ?
None.
I can feel her pain of a love that she cannot have no matter what
. I just love every movie she ever made and I have everyone of them.
I remember watching this scene and Father de Bricassard could have kissed her since it was her birthday but he was a man that wanted it all - the money and a place in Rome to become a Cardinal. His love was selfish and never gave back to anyone only to continue to take from Mary Carson and from his love of Maggie.
Definitely one of the finest actresses in this or any other century.
An unforgettable scene, all the more powerful because the character of Mary Carson died the next morning. This scene certainly won Barbara the Emmy & Golden Globe, which she so deserved. It was amazing that Barbara acting her entire life until the day she sadly passed.
Wow. that Emmy win was a no-brainer.
What a firecracker. I never tire of seeing Barbara Stanwyck perform at any age.
Granted, I've not been called to the priesthood (not yet, anyway). But if Barbara Stanwyck ever came on to me, I'd go with her in a heartbeat, the hell with her age.
Zriter59 Escritor Hahaha what a spirit!Bravo!
i agree i go with her in a heartbeat i think shes gorgeous
Well, that makes two of us.
I'm there. 😍
wow. the same voice that takes me back to her black and white films
What a scene, what an actress! Love Missy!
This scene blows me away - what a great actress!! Thank her so much for this performance - a reminder of what true class, talent, and ability to move is!
I Heard and felt each and every one of her words.
This great scene makes me ask myself , What is acting? To play a role as this convincingly the actor really must live the character portrayed,and poses the question of where the actor and act played divide. Perhaps they do not, but become one.
Whatever the case ,I find this lady a stunning performer, and years from now people not yet born who have aspirations to become dramatic actresses will study Barbara s technique and interpretation of script. One of the really great .Rest in peace dear lady
beautifully said.
@@victoriagarzione4360 Thankyou. Actually I had forgotten I said this , but I still hold the same feelings and respect for Barbara .
Wow - simply WOW - what an amazing scene from an amazing actress!!!
Wow!! What a powerhouse!!! Ms. Stanwyck could deliver with the best of them!!!
What a performance. Just beautiful!!!
I get chills every time I watch her in this scene. She was a great, great actress.
Gives me the CHILLS!!!!! definitely....1 of the best dialogues acted out in any movie/show I’ve ever seen, WOW!!! adjust so flippin PHENOMENAL!!!!!
That year all the other Emmy nominees in that category stayed home. Stanwyck NAILED that scene!!
Perfection from the late great Ms.Barbara Stanwyck!
Younger generations have no idea of the powerful acting skills in Barbara Stanwycks Era. Fantastic!!!
I still love big valley, RIP Miss Stanwyck
She does this scene so well that it's scary.
Wow can we just say how awesome this woman is, those people in Hollywood who toot their own horns really need to watch this over and over again, they don't have anything on this woman.
And this small clip is why I love and admire the great Lady, Barbara Stanwyck. I came to Barbara late after many years not really noticing her, then along came "My Reputation" and I was lost and then began the journey of discovering this wonderful Golden Age actress. To think as a child the film Double Indemnity put me off her because I couldn't understand the realities of real life and wanted romantic movies.
I got introduced to Barbara Stanwyck at the age of 13 (my mom made me watch her in Golden Boy), I am now 73 and am in the autumn of my life. Barbara's movies bring me so much joy. I have an extensive collection on DVD and I am watching them all of the time.
This scene is amazing. She is amazing.
I believe this is the best single acting scene I have witnessed. Chamberlain is very good, which means that Stanwyck is superb. I believe every word she said. That rarely happens. The intensity and clarity of what she said is unsurpassed.
This is acting! Completely internalized so that WE feel what SHE feels. Brilliantly done. You would NEVER find this level of acting in America today. And I include Streep. She could never make me cry buckets here because she's soooooooo involved in the process, which in turn calls attention to the wrong things entirely.
Compared to Miss Stanwyck (or not), Streep is a commodity vastly overrated and so bought up by a very dumbed down public, which is the goal of advertising.
This performance is a master class in acting...unforgettable. It does not, however, need to be a springboard for criticizing another great actress and a population you call the "dumbed down public." Can't we lift someone up without tearing down another?
@@daveb7119 Thank you, St, Augustine. You mean like you lifted up Stanwyck and, I guess, Streep, and used it as a springboard to tear me down and patrick? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 I made a comparison, Davey, a simple comparison! Got it? Oh, and I did not mention a "dumbed down public," but now that you brought it up, Preacher Dave, you would seem to be part of it. Thanks for the laughs.
@RMPsumma, my reply was in response to Patrick’s comment.
@@daveb7119 Really? That's definitely NOT what it said. So, you have no quarrel with my comment? Nice try.
What a powerhouse performance that was. A truly great actress. Unbelievable that she never won an Academy Award for one of her many fine performances over the years.
Whoa!! What a scene!!What an actress. She definitely deserved the Emmy for The Thorn Birds.
This was the Scene that got her the Well Deserved Emmy. I wonder if anyone heard her holler and confess her love for Ralph.
She's the best when she act angry and yelling "Noooo!!", somehow I can see flames on her eyes.
I though her real personality impact on her acting.
Barbara Stanwyck have a great wonderful scene I often visit because it was well done an I can see humor in it an the facial expression on Father Ralph at the end of scene he was like OMG I can almost see him burst out laughing.
one of the best scenes i hve ever seen in a movie. I respect this GREAT ACTREESS
She's always been
My favorite.
Hard to believe
She did not win A
Competive oscar.
No one can surpass
Her.
Love the Thorn birds.
It puts an ache in my heart whenever I see her appearances. To bring her back and see her do it all again for us all... 💝💐
All I can say about that performance is WOW!
This is one of the saddest most memorable scenes Iv ever experienced .. I first saw this when i was young and thought 'is this what happens " It affected me ...
WOW!!! She was a master of her craft!!! What sheer talent and skill! Always luv watching her and now will have to look this one up as I haven't seen it. Thank u for posting!
my favorite actress of all time! wish I had met her....RIP Ruby
This brilliant movie star , a hundred of the so-called hot actresses today don't equal 1 Barbara Stanwyck ,,second to no one, ,among the greatest movie stars ever ,no one today can ever come close . Richard Chamberland seemed a fine actor
Absolutely right! WHY was she never awarded an Oscar- or 15 of them? She's peerless, and I believe a woman of com0kete integrity in her personal life.
coralarch...cora, one of the great injustices in all of movie history, is that Ms Stanwyck was never awarded a Best Actress Oscar award...She should have had a minimum of four and possibly 6...The Academy should hang its head in shame..
daniel lack
Absolutely agree 100%. It wasn't for lack of talent, because she had it by the metric tonne. I suspect that maybe she didn't play ball with certain moguls, but was too classy to publicise it. I have watched her countless times in Double Indemnity, and still she manages to chill me to the marrow with this performance of unnerving evil. If she had never made any other film, she should have got the Oscar for this one.
I know she was awarded some honorary trophy, and I felt ambivalent about that- nice of them to recognise her outstanding talent, but really, it was too little and too late. A plague on whoever was the guilty parties who denied her the Oscars.
Davis and Ctawford were honoured in their time, and Stanwyck was their equal in every department, yet missed out- disgusting!
Wow do you know your movies...and it couldn't have been said any better...plus one of my small thrills is watching Double Indemnity with a young person, who is seeing it for the first time...as they learn what real movie making is all about...
daniel lack
YES YES YES!!!! I do that, too!! I love looking at their expressions of amazement when they see what REAL cinema used to be like!!
Brilliant, especially those last 30 seconds. Wow.
Best of Show....we never forget you Barbara
A fabulous example of True Talent. While other
veteran female stars - names withheld! - started playing
cute or campy in their senior years, Stanwyck stuck
to her guns - always playing her roles Real as well
as Riveting.
***** Well said.
There are no words that can do Justice to Barbara’s performance here. Didn’t follow the series and only now happened upon this scene. The prophetic veracity of those lines, “let me tell you about old age…” and that delivery is the absolute best craft of any actor I’ve ever witnessed.
I saw that scene first when I was in my thirties. Now, I am the age she was then and it has a whole new resonance and truth.
Yes. Like you, I saw when it was first released, now I am pushing 60 and I get it.
She destroys me with that scene every time for the last 30 plus years, every time..
Real raw talent. Amazing!!!!
The best and most under appreciated actors that ever lived. No one come close to her. She won one Oscar for her lifetime of work. What a disgrace. Watch her movies. She stole the scene every time. She should have a mountain of Oscars. My wish, but I was born past her time, would be to have a conversation with her. She is and always will be an everlasting star.
Jesus Christ, did she ever knock it out of the park here. Do you notice that she is, in this clip, the same fiery actor that she was in her 20s, 30s, 40s? It's almost like watching the 1939 Stanwyck wearing make-up to make her "look" 76. What I mean here is that young people often cannot pull off convincingly looking or sounding old because underneath make-up and costume, their youthful vigor always seems to seep out in some way. I kind of see that here. She still had her essence of her younger, trademark, passionate self when letting loose her anguish. Just awesome. :)
U explain it perfectly
😃❤👍 Barbara Stanwyck is my favorite actor
That moved me to tears and I was NOT expeting that reaction. Brava Ms Stanwyck!!!
I love Barbara Stanwyck. Am watching all of her films. She was an incredible actress.
Right to the end, Ms. Stanwyck never failed to mesmerize her audience. What she says here echoes the sentiments of many aging folks who may or may not have only enough of their minds left for regret. The troubled expression on Richard Chamberlain's face is the most appropriate response possible to her diatribe. Some acting, boy! 4/2019
Meravigliosa Barbara Stanwyck! Che lezione di recitazione ha dato ! Il suo personaggio nella storia di "Uccelli di rovo" rimarrà indimenticabile per la sua forza e drammaticità. Questo video, nella completezza della scena, è molto bello. Grazie💥💥💥💥
When Barbara accepted her Emmy for this performance, she was gracious enough to praise her competitor that night, Ann-Margret, for "Who Will Love My Children," who was also excellent.
I was 13 when this was broadcast on TV for the first time and remember that even as a 13 year old, I felt sympathy for her. I imagined what that must must feel like, feeling as if one is always young but not the face or body. Now I am over 40 years older and realize I have maybe 20-25 years left to live myself, at which time I will be as old as Ms. Stanwyck was here. 😢😢😢
The best scene ALL the time.
Stanwyck moves me terribly in this scene. Meryl Streep, in her entire career, has never achieved this.Thanks for posting. x
the one and only, miss barbara stanwyck!!! god i love her.. too bad i never had the chance to meet her :(
Dynamic scene! Barbara Stanwyck is a legend and no other actress could have brought the fire and passion and contempt to this scene as she did!! And what a scene! She found his achilles heels.... Meggie and Ambition. She knew he wanted both!
aramanth Joan Crawford and Betty Davis neither one of them would have done this scene they wouldn't have even attempted to do it and I'm a fan of both of them
To think that Bette Davis said she would have made a better Mary Carson than Barbara Stanwyck. My gosh, after watching this how could Davis imagine she could top Missy??? Missy was magnificent!!!!
justess martin Bette had a big ego. Maybe deservedly so. She would have thought she would have made a better Rooster Cogburn than John Wayne. And she just might have LOL
+justess martin She would have made a different one but not a better one. Davis was so stuck in her legend that she could not do anything else than a Davis act. Stanwyck was the better actress....
+justess martin I loved Bette Davis especially in her early work but Barbara Stanwyck was a very fine actress but I really loved her work in this mini series. This final speech was the crowning glory of the series! Too bad her character died off so soon. :( Part of what I loved about her was her wisdom to know which parts were best for her instead of thinking she could play anything and everything under the sun. For instance, when offered the role of Angela Channing in Falcon Crest she graciously turned it down as she advocated for her dear friend and colleague Jane Wyman who was marvelous in that role. I also liked Barbara in The Colbys especially in her confrontation scenes with Stephanie Beecham. a great lady and great actress!
The part calls for a suppressed lust that turns increasingly to vindictiveness, and I don't think that would have been Davis's long suit by 1983. That said, Davis herself had some fine valedictory performances in the same era with Faye Dunaway, Gena Rowlands, Jimmy Stewart and Lillian Gish. Like Stanwyck with Chamberlain, that work holds up well too. All the better for us.
Bette was probably drinking when she said that....lol. I think Barbara was a better actress than Bette, simply because she was far more natural, I always saw Bette play Bette
I sure as hell hope she got an award for that role. WOW
Awesome Barbara! Truly a great...
YESSS! WHAT A GREAT SCENE! & It's true, it's all in the eyes. That's why a lot of actresses that have the huge eyes, bright blue eyes etc or lips seem to "make it" easier & I am sure they also work hard as well. & When Barbara started they didn't think she had what it took, but I guess it ended up being her eyes that the producers etc saw, they saw her passion. When you watch her, for me anyway, you seem to look directly @ her eyes & I love her mouth but I don't know if that's the passion I'm seeing connected thru her eyes & coming out of her mouth...
A truer dialogue has never been spoken about old age......
She was a wonderful actress! She gave him a piece of her mind indeed. I almost cried when she said she was still young inside, because she was right, and it's always been that way. Inside our hearts we always carry a young passionate spirit no matter how ugly we age.
I remember seeing the scene as a kid when it first aired, and even then thinking "she's not just acting… She's really living it." It's interesting to see this again 40 years later, and to have the exact same reaction.
Stanwick was the queen of melodrama. Despite her almost unmatched talent and history for delivering in film after film, she never got as many truly A or classical film roles as Davis, Hepburn or or even Crawford. I can see her as Scarlett O'Hara, Medea or Lady Macbeth just as easily as those B movies.
You are so right...She'd have melted the celluloid as Lady M ..that would have been quite something xx
Bette Davis was the queen of melodrama. Stanwyck was as real as it gets
Kitty Collins They are both great :D
Medea and Lady MacBeth- oooohhh, yes!! Styanwyck's Phyllis Dietrichson still has the power to chill one's marrow....she was born to play evil roles as well as good ones.
Brian Turner because Stanwyck was an independent and wasn’t attached to the studio system of the 30s and 40s, she didn’t get the billing, p.r. and general hype the other biggies did
I saw a movie of Mrs. Stanwyck in which she played a part where she is explaining why she despised her daughter, and I played it over and over because it was truly superb acting, like in this scene from the Thorn Birds. She comes from a time were everything was class,talent,style,excellence etc. We don't see that today so much in anything.
One of the greatest actresses of all times! She should’ve had 4 Oscars rather than just a lifetime achievement, Oscar.
That's what you call acting! Very few have that special gift that Barbara had, one of the greats from the golden age. We have some wonderful actors today but somehow there is a certain charisma missing.
cameronpaul x
Gosh she’s such a talent! Always loved her films!