Movies: Barbara Stanwyck

At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweetheart from three years ago, disrupts the normal and triggers a chain of events involving a number of...

A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him....

Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts....

After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father....

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth'...

A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to ...

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend....

When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him....

A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire....

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind former aviator restore her faith and happiness?...

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot....

When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to civilization by Sergeant Hook, but Nanchez escapes custody and attempts to re-claim his son....

A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons....

Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married....

In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago....

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son....

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai....

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail....

After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter....

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had ...