Barbara Stanwyck

born Ruby Catherine Stevens (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990)

Stanwyck was an American actress, model and dancer. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. She made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television. By 1944 Stanwyck had become the highest-paid woman in the United States. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress four times. In 1911, two weeks after her mother's funeral, her father, Byron Stevens, joined a work crew digging the Panama Canal and was never seen again. Stanwyck was a dancer in the 1922 and 1923 seasons of the Ziegfeld Follies. One of her good friends during those years was pianist Oscar Levant. Stanwyck's first sound film was in 1929. When Stanwyck's film career declined in 1957, she moved to television. The Big Valley ran from 1965 to 1969 with Barbara the quintessential matriarch of the series who literally 'made the show'.

An expert rider, doing most of her own stuntwork, she rode a horse named -Misty Girl-

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