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In reply to the discussion: Can someone suggest a good book to read? [View all]pscot
(21,044 posts)got a nice review in the NYT. It sounds kind of interesting.
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940 is not about the actress alone. Its bigger and splashier. Stanwyck knew the most notable directors, writers, actors, studio chiefs and Broadway impresarios of her day, and Ms. Wilson is interested in all of them. A remarkable array of still photographs present supporting characters like Florenz Ziegfeld, Annie Oakley, Clark Gable and Zeppo Marx, all of whom have their places in this account. An even more startling collection of movie ads and posters tells a riveting tale of sexism (about Baby Face: Youve never seen anything like this frank, man-to-man story of a man-to-man girl!), even as they chronicle Stanwycks career. And each of her two marriages, to the vaudeville maestro Frank Fay and the pretty-boy heartthrob Robert Taylor, could fill a book alone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/books/a-life-of-barbara-stanwyck-by-victoria-wilson.html?hpw&rref=books