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  • STANWYCK - In a class ALL HER OWN! Moved like a panther; gave it her all; and gave the credit to others. How unfortunate that we will probably never see the likes of her again!

  • This was March 1982

  • Class!

  • One of the more sane republicans.

  • Fantastic actress and a true lady. Completely down to earth. Beautiful in every way

  • The greatest actress of all time.  She did more for whiskey voices and white hair than any woman who ever lived!

  • She received a standing ovation. They realized that they were seeing a great actress and a great star.

  • Wonderful and great actress! Greetings from Polish:) Ania

  • Pre-code. Nothing later counts for anything, in the universal scheme of things. She was great, as long as her greatness was allowed; i.e., until 1934.

  • Barbara Stanwyck and William Holden were best friends

  • ms stanwyck is my mothers favorite actress...but the truth is the truth stop bing pc and let people speak their minds..stop policing comments!

  • love barbara...and joan crawford loved her more they were lovers for years

  • I love the friendship that she and William Holden had. What a lovely, classy lady! And a top notch actress too.

  • Ms. Stanwyck is a LEGEND!!!

  • What a legend!!!

  • And the best all around Hollywood actress of all time goes to....Ms Barbara Stanwyck--yes better than Davis, Hepburn and Leigh. Ms. Stanwyck ALWAYS had authenticity, vulnerability and wry humor to her performances. Every one of them is believable, watchable and full of life. As some one very well said above, she never gave a bad performance. Thank you Barbara.

  • She was about 75 years old when this aired, and she looks amazing! Just watched her in Baby face (which took place when she was about 25-26) and she was soo beautiful. Looking at this it makes me happy that she aged so wonderfully. Rest in peace.

  • Yes, wonderful movies all, and wonderful career. Great lady. And that VOICE!!! I also wonder what year this was? Anyway, in spite of all of the great, wonderful movies for which she deserved an Oscar, and, Stella Dallas really MOVED me, I remember her best of all for her Emmy-winning "command performance," her last major performance at age 75 as Mary Carson in "The Thorn Birds." So POWERFUL!!! What a way to cap a brilliant career playing the most memorable villainous in modern literature--WOW!!!

  • Double Indemnity...Stella Dallas...Sorry, Wrong Number...Ball Of Fire...I LOVE YOU BARABARA STANWYCK FOR BRINGING SO MUCH PLEASURE INTO MY LIFE !

  • She should have had an Oscar for Ladies of Leisure and possibly for almost every movie after, but especially for Ladies of Leisure. If that's not great acting nothing is!

  • Magnifique Barbara Stanwyck .

  • She looks absolutely beautiful for an older woman. What year was this? And a beautiful speech too boot.

  • She looks absolutely beautiful for an older woman. What year was this?

  • Barbara Stanwyck and I used to take the TROLLEY!

  • LITTLE KNOWN FACT: Barbara was born & raised in Brooklyn.

  • 1:05 IT'S JACK FUCKING NICHOLSON!!

  • 1:05 IT'S JACK FUCKING NICHOLSON!!

  • if anything she deserved an award for "Stella Dallas"

  • @asongforxx456 I AGREE WITH YOU!

  • A true legend...........

  • From one blue-eyed blond to another, "you said it baby"! I couldn't agree more--right on!

  • " I need him like the axe needs the turkey. " - The Lady Eve (:

    she was amazing!

  • @ilovebones18 Your quote is backwards. As you've written it, it makes no sense. It should be "I need him like the turkey needs the ax", the implication being that, she did not need him at all; in fact, it would have been detrimental to have done so. See how that works? There you go.

  • What class, what graciousness, what absolute kings and queens those people were. I do not wish to trash the current-day movie stars, but they are NOTHING in comparison to those actors of the golden age of Hollywood.

  • God she was gorgeous. I wished I looked that good today!

  • how fabulous....pure class...

  • Some actors can play a part. Barbara Stanwyck IS the part. Big difference.

    And she look beautiful in that dress.

  • The single greatest film actress I have ever seen.

    Sorry to the foreign film actresses I don't know but should. And sorry to Ms. Streep, who I think and have for a long time is our greatest living American film actress.

    And sorry to Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters) and Susan Hayward, my father's favorite (Edyth Marriner), but Ruby Catherine Stevens takes the cake,

    What other actress, after 55 years in movies, could have rubbed down a naked Richard Chamberland. And you still watched?

  • So lovely of her to thank the crews and technicians ! Classy lady !

  • RIP you served us well

  • What a woman. I wish leading actors still were so erudite and charming -- and had such New York accents. She sounds exactly the same as she did in 'Ball of Fire.'

  • @everybodyever Brooklyn. Through and through.

  • That woman, my god. Your voice, you talent... really DIVA.

  • You can always tell the great ones because they're so humble and unselfish. She was one of them.

  • I will say it again. I am moved by the humility of these true stars. They were bigger than life and yet, they allowed themselves to show their emotions in public, moved to tears: both men and women. In seeing the clips (Oscar acceptance) of others stars from the Golden Era of Hollywood, these is a common denominator amongst them. Their true talent shall live forever in the characters they so brilliantly portrayed.

  • Gorgeous woman and a terrific lady

  • Her voice is so captivating.

  • if only we did mot have to see Travolta's repulsive mug before this.

  • i love her, such a great actress, she deserved this, big time!

  • one of my favorite Stanwyck films is "Christmas in Connecticut". It was a simple movie and piece of war time fluff. That said - she made it work . That is true talent.

  • Jeez, Nicholson wearing sunglasses indoors like some idiot.

    Angelica looks very uncomfortable next to him..

    and is that Diane Keaton looking like she just flew in from a Vampire movie set?

  • She aged so well. A great actress and a real Star. No more of her kind in Hollywood. God Bless Her!

  • Wow I cannot believe how beautiful Barbara is in this video- & she was 75!!!

  • Hey John,

    Get on that plane with your co-pilot (you can't fly a kite by yourself) and take Oprah and her groupies to Australia..what a joke!

  • God I LOVE her. Her voice is epic.

  • @PirateQueenMaureen She had a horrid chain smoker's voice.

  • my favorite movie is the lady gambles, she totally embody the personality of a gambler, the need that blinks in their eyes to gamble, not to win back but to just gamble... she made it real...

  • Wonderful acceptance speech.

  • Unbelievable beauty.

  • This clip is so old that John Travolta was still good looking.

  • 1982 because Henry Fonda received Oscar for On Golden Pond.

  • Stanwyck ...what a great superstar. DOUBLE INDEMNITY....what a perfect film/

  • Quiet simply the greatest screen actress there ever was. A class act, on and off the screen. We'll never see her like again.

  • @rudeboymm1 You got that right--all of the above and a whole lot more. BEST actress in Hollywood--or any where else.

  • What a marvellous lady! Such actresses are rarity!

    And I wish there were more such kind of people in this world and in cinematography...

  • This must be late 70s right?or early 80s?

  • Nicholson looking like an ass as always... and Keaton looking like God knows what. As always.

    RIP Miss Stanwyck. You deserved better shots than this.

  • Barbara Stanwyck, our Golden Actress. Rest in peace, Ma'am.

  • @TINY2ACTIVE

    There was no greater film actress. Simple as that.

  • "And so tonight, my Golden boy, you got your wish!"

    :') Long may your memory live on Barbara!

  • My favorite. Love her!

  • Perhaps the only true screen legend to ever appear in an Elvis movie.

  • She is one of my favorite actresses and she once called Bette Davis a bitch  :]

  • Stanwyck ROCKS! I love all of her movies!!!! A true screen legend!

  • barbara for sure, deserved an award for stella dallas

  • Always classy, always beautiful. Barbara Stanwyck will remain a legend forever.

  • I LOVE U BARBARA STANWYCK

  • Yeah William Holden, what a smoooooth operator he was.

  • She deserved it also for 'Double Indemnity'. Classic !

  • Stanwick was a terrible, one note actress. I think Jodie Foster copied her acting style. Both are painful to watch.

  • @loxj Have you seen any of her roles. That is a surprising comment to make.

  • @loxj

    They all were before the mid 50's

  • Ain't this a great country......ain't you glad your father caught the boat!

  • Ain't this a great country......ain't you glad your father caught the boat!

  • Ain't this a great country......ain't you glad your father caught the boat!

  • Ain't this a great country....ain't you glad your father caught the boat!

  • Ain't this a great country....ain't you glad your father caught the boat!

  • old hollywood...gotta love it

  • There is this nice new video from Breton2Robert called: Sensuously, Softly Sultry Carole Lombard. Nice piece of work

  • There is this nice new video from Breton2Robert called: Sensuously, Softly Sultry Carole Lombard. Nice piece of work

  • Why the classy, mega-talented Barbara never won an Oscar is a damning indictment against Hollywood.

  • Why the classy, mega-talented Barbara never won an Oscar is a damning indictment against Hollywood.

  • i always weep when she starts speaking about William Holden

  • No matter what age, Barbara was always...Barbara. :)

  • No matter what age, Barbara was always...Barbara. :)

  • UNIQUE. The greatest actress ever.

  • As I get older I appreciate the great stars of the golden era....Jean Arthur, Claudette Colbert, James Cagney, Paul Muni, Susan Hayward, Irene Dunne, but none more deserving of accolades than Barbara Stanwyck...a great actress, a great box office star, a grand lady.

    Ms. Stanwyck was great in The Lady Eve,

    Stella Dallas and Double Indemnity. In fact Barbara Stanwyck never ever gave a bad performance. Her directors: Capra,

    Wilder, etc adored Her

    Stanwyck's tribute to Bill HOlden memorable

  • no offens..e but nowhere does Travolta come anywhere near great enough to present.. MISS STANWYCK

  • 1982's Academy honorary award

  • What year was this?

  • @varaada :

    March 1982.-four months after the death of Bill Holden in November 1981.  Lorraine

  • Lovely woman,inside and out.

  • Lovely. Wonderful actress and classy lady.

  • I recall reading that she made a point of learning the names of every crew member on her films and never was the "star", but part of the whole team. The result was that everyone did their best to make her look her best. Small surprise she had the grace to acknowledge all the behind the camera folks who made her look good.

  • Love that Woman and the most touching OSCAR speach in the History of that show! bless you for all eternity BArbara Stanwyck

  • How could Oscar have ignored one of the handful of truly great screen actresses? She was far greater than most of the ladies who received theirs. Oh, well! I've always though an honorary award was a consolation prize.

  • Is it because she named names?

  • @PeterFirthFan

    Peter, I don't recall that she named names. She was conservative, granted, in large measure because she was married to Robert Taylor during that time zone. But I don't recall her appearing in front of the HUAC.

  • @grabit1

    She isn't conservative....I mean look at her personal life dissing her son?

  • I think it was a little more complicated than that. Just like most other things.

  • No it wasnt because her award nominations came well before the time of naming or not naming names...if it were ever to have been an issue it would have been at the time of the honorary Oscar....how Hollywood felt about her may be measured by the fact that she did in fact receive the Honorary Oscar and no one in the house seems to be sitting on their hands

  • How could anyone say such ugly things about a wonderful human being who did and still gives great entertainment. She did that for a living, and was damn good. I cannot believe the comments below. You may answer for that someday. I suggest you search your heart and thing about what you are doing. We gave enought bad things going on in this world and a movie lets us forget and have fun.

  • I just got done watching a video of Babyface with my wife, who works in the accounting dept of a large bank. I originally saw it at 4 a.m. on tcm while watching a John Wayne marathon. At first I wasn't going to watch but had to see the duke ('s cameo). My eyes were wide open and draw dropped through it and had to share it with my wife. Watch it!

  • pure class... I wish that was still around...

  • what she really deserved, at last

  • what she really deserved at last!

  • I hated her horrid chain smoker's voice.

  • As I've had to remind you too many other times, you have far too much to learn.

    Who cares about her "horrid chain smokers voice?"

    You're comments on everything are too bloody stupid to do more than react. I'm done reacting. Especially since you have no bloody clue about the greatest screen actress you have ever seen.

    Idiot.

  • She already had emphysema, chronic obstructive lung disease and heart disease.

  • The big one! We always love you, Barbara!

  • Total class, and a truly great actress in the movies......rent them all and enjoy

  • 2 words to describe her : annoying, talentless.

  • AHAHAHAHAHAH

    shut up!

  • Agreed, she was a talentless lesbian just like her Nazi homosexual "husband" Robert Taylor.

  • You know, douchebag, there are homes for people like you now. Even Reagan didni't steal that from you.

  • Is your mother still alive? And if she isn't, what part of your garden is she buried in?

    From everything I have read from you on this site, you are not only a fool. But a fool at the top of his voice.

  • WHy do you hate her so much what has she done

    I would like to know ?

  • She was a Republican who supported the McCarthy witch hunts.

  • @PeterFirthFan

    I don't think she was particularly political at all. She may not have waived a fist in protest, but simply being at particular pool parties doesn't form a fixed and intractable ideology.

  • But she did support Robert Taylor's activities.

  • @PeterFirthFan yes, she was a Republican--but she also respected the rights of others and was against destroying lives. So you are wrong there==get your facts right about this great lady and artist.

  • Travolta just sucks ass. Bring on Barbara and shut up Barbarino.

  • I agree.  Don't know why they waste time with his silly intro, yet cut out the film clips showing her great acting.

    Doesn't. Make. Sense.

  • actually it does make sense...frequently these sites do not have the rights to rebroadcast the film footage

  • LMAO!

  • didn't she age beautifully?! most other top actresses by that age were downright scary-looking...but not barbara !

  • That girl with Burt Lancaster had FFFFFFUCKED up hair.

  • Burt used to hit his women. He was a great actor but not a good man.

  • oh holly shit i you kidding? and to think my mother worships him!

  • he was so hot then

    omg

  • please put the date with the information, it would help

  • I wish this "Oscar" channel wouldn't cut out the film clips from these great stars. What a waste just showing the intros and the acceptance speeches.

  • She was my favorite girl but....it

    doesn't matter she was a bisexual allright; everything well documented in the book "The Sewing Circle" by Axel Madsen

  • Yes indeed...unfortunately it has been documented in a book:

    The Sewing Circle by Axel Madsen.

    Regardless, she was a magnificent actress.

  • and if she is/was.....do you have a point

  • I just was so moved by her comments on William Holden. She could do it all. I loved her in Stella Dallas.

  • i think she is a good actress, but i think that she wasn't the best. bette davis, joan crawford and janet leigh among others where better actresses, and they all looked just as good 'till the end.

  • I agree that perhaps Davis was a better actress, but I think most wouldn't consider Crawford in their league at all. She was a 'movie star' yes, but not an actress with a wide range.

    And Janet Leigh -- she'd have been long forgotten if it weren't for 'Psycho', and even in that case, the film isn't remembered for her performance.

  • Janet Leigh didn't age well at all.

  • I agree. Joan was a movie star, and she worked damm hard to be a star, She had some great films in the 1940's, all credit to her. But for pure talent bette davis, ingid bergman and to a slightly lesser degree kate hepburn, were the real deal.

  • I think Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis were the two best. Barbara was more subtle than Davis at times, whihc I like.

    Joan Crawford (though I much prefer the other two) was a tremendous actress. A Woman's Face, Mildred Pierce...heck, even Johnny Guitar show her talent.

  • how could you even think of putting joan crawford in the same league with bette davis? come on!

  • Barbara Stanwyck is one star whose reputation keeps growing and growing and amen to that. "Double Indemnity"

    and one of the great films of all times,

    "Stella Dallas" among others. I am so glad the Academy awarded Stanwyck an Honorary Oscar...great actress, great lady, and she is missed. Qualities that Stanwyck, Hayward, Loy, Dunne, Arthur,

    Colbert had rarely exist in a town called Hollywood today.

  • What a lady! Her work stands the test of time and she will always be remembered! I miss you!

  • her sounds is like when she was young

  • beauty, class and dignity and a real way with a line.

  • A great actress !!!

    We will always remember you !

  • Angelica looks bored.

  • What a fine actress and a lovely woman(at any age)she is!

  • I love this woman!What a fine actress! I've only ever heard wonderful things from people who worked with her....plus she looks lovely at any age.

  • What the fuck is Dianne Keaton wearing??

  • excellent actress!

  • it's sad that great movie actors/actresses are just reduced in receiving honorary oscars instead of giving them best actor/actress oscars. it's like saying "we owe you one for lasting this long in the business, so here's your honorary oscar." sad.

  • Barbara Stanwyck aged nicely.

    She was simply magnificent.

  • Why do so many people talk smak about John Travolta--He was THE STAR back then!!

    Barbara Satnwyck is absolutely stunning!

  • Boy, did she age gracefully. She is my favorite actress.

  • Not really. She already had emphysema, chronic obstructive lung disease and heart disease.

  • That's what killed my mother, and she, too, was an actress and looked stunning until the end.

  • Indeed, but she should have given up the cigarettes

  • you horrible

  • I hated her horrid cigarette voice.

  • I don't give a rat's ass about Stanwyck's personal life. It's none of my business. She is one of my all-time favorite actors, and her films are among my favorites.

    As mca1218 so aptly put it:"A dame and a lady in the same glorious package!"

    RIP Missy. You were one of a kind.

  • i agree with you

  • look at how much hollywood has changed. there's only one black guy in the audience

  • A change for the better :)

  • why can't oscar acceptance speeches be like this instead of all that sniveling and hyperventilating that goes on today? Learn to speak people!

  • I totally agree with you. It's acting on top of acting!!! ugh.

  • I'm gay and am sickened by the character assassination that fellow gay people seem hellbent on pursuing against people who are either straight, homophobic, or who simply do not share their need to be 'out'.

    And wherever there is an anonymous forum like this, it runs rampant.

    You should be ashamed of yourselves - but you'll never be, will you?

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