| Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: Annie |
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| While Barbara Stanwyck's Professional life was a success, her private one was, by 1935 a total failure and finally in August of 1935, Barbara and Dion moved out of the house she and Fay had built in Brentwood Heights and she filed papers for divorce. The Fays signed the agreement on December 31, 1935. |
| "Annie Oakley" ,the story of the straight shooter who became the' World Greatest Woman Rifle Shot' in the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, was Barbara Stanwyck's first Western. The role was excetionally well suited for Stanwyck's own personality and director George Stevens, who came to the film directly from his success guiding Katharine Hepburn through "alice Adams, managed to bring poignancy and humor to the picture Stanwyck handled the shooting and riding admirably and although she and Preston didn't exactly burn up the screen with their chemistry, they did work well together and the film was extremely successful. |
| Annie Oakley 1935. RKO Director: George Stevens Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Annie Oakley) Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Moroni Olsen, Andy Clyde, Chief Thunder Bird, |
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| If Joan Crawford was the queen of Metro, Bette Davis the future queen of Warners', and Claudette Colbert the queen of Paramount, Barbara Stanwyck was without a doubt the queen of the independents. Within the next eighteen months she would make films for RKO, Twentieth Century-Fox, Metro, Paramount, and United Artists. |
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| [ New York Sun]: *A Western with Miss Stanwyck playing the shy, girlish young queen of the shooting range becomes a super-western indeed* [RichardWatts]: *Miss Stanwyck has never been more real and touching than she is in the title role* |