Barbara stanwyck biography volume 2
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An Interview lift Victoria Geophysicist, Author a number of A Courage of Barbara Stanwyck: Dagger True 1907-1940
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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940
That being said, Victoria Wilson, an editor at Alfred Knopf, has never written a book before, and whoever was in charge of this tome at Simon & Schuster seems to have assumed that she would have edited the book herself and that they didn't need to read it before they published it.
Contradictions, misspellings and simple factual errors are littered throughout. It boggles the mind. On Page 597, I reached my favorite error, in which Wilson writes that John Arnold, head of MGM's camera department in the 1930s, had "started cranking his camera back in 1903, when he worked for Thomas A. Edison, and had since shot more than a billion feet of film."
Shooting a billion feet of 35mm film at 24 fps would take over 1,200 years.
Another amazing error is her referring to the Production Code Administration by its correct name, and then later, in the same paragraph, referring to it as the Picture Code Association. There are many, many, many more, in additio
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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck ONE Family History
My grandparents on both sides were probably horse-thieves. No one ever told us anything about them. Therefore I suspect the worst. I imagine they were born and raised in Ireland. But wherever the family tree is planted, whether its branches are rotten or sound, I’ll never know.
—Barbara Stanwyck, 1937
It has been written about Barbara Stanwyck, born Ruby Stevens, that she was an orphan. Her mother, Catherine Ann McPhee Stevens, Kitty, died in 1911, when Ruby was four years old. Following Kitty’s death, Ruby’s father, Byron E. Stevens, a mason, left his five children and set sail for the Panama Canal, determined to get away and hoping to find work at higher wages than at home.
The story goes that Ruby and her older brother, Malcolm Byron, then six years of age, were passed from Brooklyn home to home, from tenement to tenement, to whatever family would take them in for the few dollars the family would be paid for their care. Ruby would earn her keep scrubbing toilets, doing whatever she could to stay alive. Her three sisters, who were much older, two of whom were married, were busy with their own lives. One sister was in show business, a dancer who frequently traveled and was barely able to care for he