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Callahan could be the best writer on film acting, certainly the best that I know of. That’s the bold contention of Dan Callahan’s well-written Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman.”Michael Musto, The Village Voice“Callahan soars when he takes aim at Stanw

• Title : Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman (Hollywood Legends Series)
• Author : Dan Callahan
• Rating : 4.98 (824 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-4-15
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 272 Pages
• Asin : 1617031836
• Language : English

Callahan could be the best writer on film acting, certainly the best that I know of. That’s the bold contention of Dan Callahan’s well-written Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman.”Michael Musto, The Village Voice“Callahan soars when he takes aim at Stanwyck’s acting and films, so much so that The Miracle Woman's primary value may be as a friendly reference book to pull off the shelf every time you see a Stanwyck picture and wish to hear an erudite, witty voice offer much more than two cents… Callahan writes of her with the ever-present respect one shows a great artist, and The Miracle Woman is brimming with penetrating observations…his writing is often humorously piquant, hitting the reader like a lime spritz in a margarita.”Matthew Kennedy, The Bay Area Reporter“Anyone with a love for classic film history will find much to love and

. Dan Callahan, Brooklyn, New York, is an independent film scholar. His work has been published in Bright Lights Film Journal, Senses of Cinema, Slant Magazine, Film International, Time Out New York, and The L Magazine

Directors such as Cecil B. Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood’s most talented leading women-and America’s highest paid woman in the mid-1940s. After making more than eighty films in Hollywood, she revived her career by turning to television, where her role in the 1960s series The Big Valley renewed her immense popularity.Callahan examines Stanwyck’s career in relation to the directors she worked with and the genres she worked in, leading up to her late-career triumphs in two films directed by Douglas Sirk, All I Desire and There’s Always Tomorrow, and two outrageous westerns, The Furies and Forty Guns. A four-time Academy Award nominee, winner of three Emmys and a Golden Globe, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy.Dan

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