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Barbara Stanwyck Elevates ‘Stella Dallas’
Stanwyck has a way of making this treacly, broad-stroked motherly-sacrifice soap opera seem better than it is.
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Sex is Power: On ‘Baby Face’
The movie, all about a woman’s quest to fuck her way to the top, is notorious. But it isn’t overly reliant on shock value.
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Snow White, Remixed, in ‘Ball of Fire’
In which Barbara Stanwyck stands in for the princess as a fast-talking lounge singer named Sugarpuss and seven stuffy professors do the dwarves.
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‘No Man of Her Own’ Makes You Take a Silly Premise Seriously
‘No Man of Her Own’ is as good as it is — at least before it fulfills its melodramatic obligations — because its writers and director Mitchell Leisen give it all maybe more emotional legitimacy than it needs.
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A Fresh Start Gone Rotten in ‘East Side, West Side’
In ‘East Side, West Side,’ marriage becomes less a haven — something one should always aspire to — but something to be wary of.
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