Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: 1953 - 1954

Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray

The Moonlighter  1953.  Warner Brothers Director: Roy Rowland Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck  (Rela)          Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond, Jack Elam, Costumes;Joe King & Ann Peck

(left) Fredric March, Nina Foch, ,Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck, Anthony Quinn

Blowing Wild 1953.   Warner Brothers Director:Hugo Fregonese Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck  (Marina)         Gary Cooper, Anthony Quinn, Ruth Roman,           Ward Bond,

,Barbara Stanwyck,

Gary Cooper,, Barbara Stanwyck,

After  the lead in such bad movies, it was refreshing to see Stanwyck in a small but pivotal role in a good movie. "Executive Suite" is the story of the battle for the presidency of a big  furniture company after the sudden death of the incumbent. Stanwyck plays the dead man's bitter mistress and important stockholder  whose vote is for the next president is crucial

A shapeless, dull and low budget  affair, made in 3D, is only bearable when Stanwyck and MacMurray are in it. Exactly why the protagonists of "Double indemnity" did elect to participate in this cow-town petty larceny is still a mystery

The film is labeled cheap from the very beginning and soon lapses into corny sensation in a story about men fighting bandits in the Mexican oil fields, with Stanwyck climbing all over Cooper in a dime-novel version of gran passion.   She hates everything and everybody in the film (and probably hated the moment she had accepted to substitute Lauren Bacall in the role) It is again the case of two great performers stuck in a bad film.

Executive Suite  1954.  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director:Robert Wise Cast: William Holden, June Allyson,          Barbara Stanwyck  (Julia Tredway)         Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon,            Shelley Winters, Paul Douglas,           Louis Calhern, Dean Jagger,         Nina Foch Tim Considine, Women's Costumes:Helen Rose

Stanwyck won her third "Laurel " for the role and her scene with William Holden has all the fire they exhibited in "Golden Boy" The film was one of the most successful  of 1954 and it appeared on many of the "ten best" lists.

The CAST of Executive Suite: From left: Walter Pidgeon, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, Shelley Winters, Louis Calhern, Fredric March, BARBARA STANWYCh, William Holden, June Allyson, Paul Douglas

,Fredric March,Barbara Stanwyck,Walter Pidgeon, William Holden