![]() ![]() And I began to be conscious of myself, the way I looked, the clothes I wore.” I read about gardens and ballrooms and moonlight trysts and murders. Here was escape! I read lurid stuff about ladies who smelled sweet and looked like flowers and were betrayed. But at 14 she thrilled to Sarah Bernhardt’s Memories of My Life, and had this to say of her early reading habits: “I read nothing good, but I read an awful lot. Later, her roles in The Lady Eve and Double Indemnity would fuse the words “tough-talking” to her name. Alongside Busby Berkeley fantasias came The Miracle Woman (1931), So Big (1932, based on the Edna Ferber novel), and Stella Dallas (1937), for which Stanwyck received her first Academy Award nomination. Her style, which favors unfussy naturalism and pure wellsprings of emotion, appealed to directors like Frank Capra, and fell in sync with depression-era Hollywood’s burgeoning interest in realism. ![]() For Stanwyck, as for most movie stars, timing was key. ![]()
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