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Article: STELLAR STANWYCK
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 18, 1988
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CopyrightCopyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Barbara Stanwyck made acting look so effortless, so natural, that
she was underappreciated during her career. Equally adept in
comedy, melodrama and Westerns, she got her big break in an early
Frank Capra talkie, "Ladies of Leisure" (1930), playing a call girl
who models for an artist (Ralph Graves) who needs to believe she's
spiritual. Looking like an Art Deco hood ornament, she's mysterious
because she always seems to be feeling more than she's saying. You
can see this breakthough role today at the Brattle Theatre in
Cambridge with another early Capra, "Platinum Blonde" (1931), a
newspaper comedy in which Jean Harlow was miscast as a society
girl, but took her persona from the film's ...
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