Life Upon the Wicked Stage: New Books in the Performing Arts A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940

Victoria Wilson, writer and Vice President/Senior Editor at Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, discusses her biography of Ms. Stanwyck with Foster Hirsch, author and cultural historian. Stanwyck had an astonishing four decade career in movies (88 in all), from first “talkies” to the birth of television. In A Life of Barbara Stanwyck, Wilson gives us the quintessential Brooklyn girl, her years in New York as a dancer and Broadway star, her fraught marriage to Broadway genius Frank Fay, her surprising and career-altering partnership with Zeppo Marx, her fairytale romance and marriage to the younger Robert Taylor (America's most sought-after and beautiful male star), and more.

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