BARBARA STANWYCK PHOTO GALLERY

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. . .beloved by all directors, actors, crews, and extras. . . Under her sullen shyness smoldered the emotional fires of a young Duse or a Bernhardt. Naive, unsophisticated, caring nothing about makeup, or hairdos, this chorus girl could grab your heart and tear it to pieces. She knew nothing about camera tricks. She just turned it on -- and everything else on the stage stopped.
director Frank Capra

My father probably paid her his highest compliment when he said, "There's nothing phony about her, either in life or on the screen."
Jane Fonda

Here was an actress that never played just one side of a character. She always played the truth. I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting, and she said, "Just be truthful, and if you can fake that, you've got it made."
Walter Matthau

She's one of the greatest women and one of the grandest actresses I ever worked with.
actor Walter Huston

I have never worked with an actress who was more cooperative, less temperemental, and a better workman, to use my term of highest compliment, than Barbara Stanwyck. When I count over those actresses of whom my memories are unmarred by any unpleasant recollection of friction on the set, or unwillingness to do whatever the role required, or squalls of temperament or temper, Barbara's is the first name that comes to mind.
director Cecil B. DeMille

If [My Reputation] was fun, mostly because Barbara is a real pal, a real trouper. You can pour water over her head or put a hot-foot on her and she takes it and laughs. The crew likes her, everybody likes her.
director Curtis Bernhardt

Barbara Stanwyck is a fantastic actress. When she makes a gesture as she speaks a line, she has a way of suspending that motion in mid-air for a split second on a certain word which gives an imperceptible emphasis to just that word.
director Mitchell Leisen

. . .nor did I find her sympathetic. Barbara Stanwyck, I mean. She was always so popular and everybody adored her, but I found her a cold person, and she was the only actress in my working experience who ever went home leaving me to do the close-ups. . .with the script girl, which I thought was most unprofessional. I was quite surprised. There, that's the only unkind thing that's ever been said about Barbara Stanwyck.
actress Maureen O'Sullivan

Barbara Stanwyck, amenable and considerate, who could put more real meaning into one lifted eyebrow than Monroe into an entire script, got it all over within one take and zero tantrums.
Kenneth Anger

The best actress I ever worked with was Barbara Stanwyck. She is great. She never wants to quit acting; there is no becoming a housewife in her dreams. Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper are both in the Cowboy Hall of Fame with me.
actor Joel McCrea

I certainly agree with all those who find more sex appeal in Barbara Stanwyck and her ankle bracelet in Double Indemnity than in all these naked bodes rolling around on the screen today.
Bette Davis

A professional's professional, a superb technician with a voice quality that immediately hooked you with its humanness.
director King Vidor

I was lucky enough to make four pictures with Barbara. In the first I turned her in, in the second I killed her, in the third I left her for another woman, and in the fourth, I pushed her over a waterfall. The one thing all these pictures had in common was that I fell in love with Barbara Stanwyck, and I did, too.
Fred MacMurray

Stanwyck can act the hell out of any part, and she can turn a chore into a challenge. She's fun, and I'm glad I had a chance to make three movies with her. The Lady Eve was the best. . . She's a delicious woman.
Henry Fonda

Thirty-nine years ago this month, we were working in a film together called Golden Boy. It wasn't going so well, and I was going to be replaced. But, due to this lovely human being, and her encouragement, and above all her generosity, I'm here tonight.
William Holden

with Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity

on the set of The Lady Eve with costar Henry Fonda (l) and director Preston Sturges

with William Holden in Golden Boy

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