| Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: 1957 - 1960 |
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| Barbara Stanwyck, Terry Lawrence |
| Trooper Hook 1957 United Artists Director: Charles Marquis Warren Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Cora) Joel McCrea, Earl holliman, Edward Andrews, Susan Kohner Costumes: Voulee Giokaris |
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| Forty Guns 1957. Twentieth Century- Fox Director:Samuel Fuller Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Jessica Drummond) Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry, Costumes: Charles LeMaire,Leah Rhodes |
| During the first 17 minutes of the film, despite the fact that she appears in most of them, Stanwyck does not speak. She is a white woman, whose love for the son she has had while prisoner of an Apache chief makes her an outcast with her own people. She and McCrea(as a Cavalry sergeantt who befriend her) work smoothly together in their sixth picture together. |
| "Forty Guns" had Stanwyck working with Samuel Fuller in a story he wrote, produced and directed. The film should have been called "Woman with a wip" (and Stanwyck puts one to good use in the film) and she would have been killed in the end instead of just wounded, but the studio interfered on both counts. Marilyn Monroe had wanted the lead badly, but Fuller had written the script with Barbara in mind as the toughest character she had yet played in a Western. She was a stallion-riding, whip handling, leader of a band of hired gunmen,and the sister of a gun-happy ne'er-do-well, who rides roughshod over the countryside and the sheriff in a section of Arizona to which Sullivan come to establish law and order. |
| Barbara Stanwyck,JBarry Sullivan |
| Barbara's first Television appearence had been as a guest on Jack Benny's series in 1954, Followed by two appearences as guest hostess on Loretta Young's series in late 1955, during Mrs Young's recovery from surgery. During the 1958/59 season she made four appearences on "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater" anthology series, and in early 1959 she was the star of Jack Benny's famous takeoff of the film 'Gaslight', entitle " Autolite" Through the fifties, Barbara received numerous offers from each of the networks asking her to star in her own series, but none was willing to give her what she wanted, A Western series of her own. |
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| "Forty guns" would be Stanwyck last movie of the fifties and for five years she would be away from the big screen. |
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| Barbara Stanwyck (Zane Gray Theatre- Trail to nowhere) |
| Then ,finally a mutually satisfying agreement was reached and on January 1960 Barbara and NBC-TV jointly announced that she would be starring in the fall in "The Barbara Stanwyck Theater" to be shown on Monday evenings at 10:00. The prospect of her own series excited Barbara, and she assured the press that she would personally take responsability for the show 's quality. Asked why she was switching to television, Barbara was her usual honest self and said it was simple, She wasn't working and wanted to work. What else was there for her to do? |
| Once she had taken on the series, she gave it everything. Its format was similar to that of the Loretta Young Show, and others of this type, with Barbara acting as hostess and starring in most of the half-hour segments (she starred in 32 of the 36 that were filmed) And she managed to include some Westerns in the package. |
| Barbara Stanwyck,John Ericson (right) |
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