Barbara Stanwyck
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"Barbara Stanwyck" was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Cinema of the United States/Hollywood, before turning to television.

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I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.