Barbara Stanwyck Net Worth

Barbara Stanwyck's Quotes

• During Double Indemnity (1944), Fred MacMurray would go to rushes [viewings of daily completed shots]. I remember asking Fred, "How was I?" [Fred's response was] "I don't know about you, but I was wonderful!" Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves.
• I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety and they won't need to paste my face with make-up.
• [referring to director Frank Capra] Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure, it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!
• Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.
• My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Interesting Facts about Barbara Stanwyck

1. Her stage name was inspired by a theatrical poster that read "Jane Stanwyck in 'Barbara Frietchie.'".
2. Her nickname among co-workers was "Missy" or "The Queen."
3. In 1944, when she earned $400,000, the government listed her as the nation's highest-paid woman.
4. Often called "The Best Actress Who Never Won an Oscar."
5. According to the biographical film Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991), Stanwyck became a role model for female actors. Such stars as Sally Field and Virginia Madsen have publicly declared Stanwyck their role model.
6. American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. [1987]
7. Sister of actor Bert Stevens and sister-in-law of actress Caryl Lincoln. Godmother of Bobbie Poledouris.
8. Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1973.
9. Worked briefly as a fashion model in the late 1920s.
10. Was listed #11 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years of The Greatest Screen Legends."
11. Her role as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944) was ranked #8 on the American Film Institute's "100 Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains" list. The performance also was ranked #98 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time list (2006) and #58 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time list.
12. She was voted the 40th "Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Entertainment Weekly.
13. Her stormy 7 year marriage to Frank Fay finally ended after a drunken brawl, during which he tossed their adopted son, Dion, into the swimming pool. Their divorce was finalized on December 30, 1935. The couple had adopted Dion on December 5, 1932. Dion (born John Charles Greene, February 5, 1932, Los Angeles County, California - died May 17, 2006, Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, California) became permanently estranged from Stanwyck in February 1951, when he was 19 years old; the rift never healed.In 1957, Dion was arrested for trying to sell lewd pictures while waiting to cash his unemployment check. When questioned by the press about his famous mother, he replied, "We don't speak." He and Stanwyck only saw each other a few times after their falling out. He was reportedly bequeathed some money from Stanwyck's estate on condition he never speak publicly about her.
14. Picked up the starring role in Ball of Fire (1941) after Ginger Rogers dropped out.
15. On October 27, 1981, Stanwyck was awakened by a burglar at 1:00 in the morning. She was hit on the head with an unknown object then forced into a closet while the intruder ransacked the house and got away with $5,000 worth of jewels. She was treated for minor head wounds at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and released the next day. Four years later, in 1985, the house was destroyed in a fire. She expressed upset at losing personal keepsakes, including love letters from Robert Taylor.
16. Stanwyck had no funeral. She was cremated and the ashes scattered from a helicopter over Lone Pine, California, where she had made some of her Western films.
17. She was replaced by Susan Hayward in Heat of Anger (1972), which was to have been a pilot for a prospective TV series to be called "Fitzgerald and Pride".
18. Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1751 Vine St.
19. Her papers are in the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, PO Box 3924, Laramie, WY 82071.
20. Turned down the role of Angela Channing on Falcon Crest (1981).