The best Barbara Stanwyck’s romance movies on Apple iTunes

Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck

16/07/1907- 20/01/1990
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Barbara Stanwyck’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Barbara Stanwyck.

Baby Face

Baby Face
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/07/1933
  • Character: Lily Powers
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

Titanic

Titanic
7/10
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the unsinkable Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.

Clash by Night

Clash by Night
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/05/1952
  • Character: Mae Doyle D'Amato
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

Roustabout

Roustabout
6/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 11/11/1964
  • Character: Maggie Morgan
Elvis plays a bad-boy singer roaming the highways on his Japanese motorcycle; laid up after an accident, he joins a carnival owned by the feisty Barbara Stanwyck.

Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/12/1941
  • Character: Sugarpuss O’Shea
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Christmas in Connecticut

Christmas in Connecticut
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 27/07/1945
  • Character: Elizabeth Lane
Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children, and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality, she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on *her* farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?

Hollywood Canteen

Hollywood Canteen
7/10
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/02/1941
  • Character: Jean Harrington
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

My Reputation

My Reputation
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/01/1946
  • Character: Jessica Drummond
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.

East Side, West Side

East Side, West Side
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/12/1949
  • Character: Jessie Bourne
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.

Ladies They Talk About

Ladies They Talk About
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 04/02/1933
  • Character: Nan Taylor / Nan Ellis / Mrs. Andrews
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

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