![]() ![]() ![]() He really brought her into the world of film and made it something that she could thrive in,” Wilson said. “(Capra and Stanwyck) had a very intense connection. Wilson, author of A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel True 1907-1940, a definitive new biography of the iconic actress, kicked off the downtown movie mecca’s four week series on Friday, introducing a double feature of THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN (1933) and THE MIRACLE WOMAN (1931), two of the five films Stanwyck made with the iconic director between 19. Really, who can blame him? And now, thanks to Film Forum’s 40-film Stanwyck retrospective, New York audiences can do the same, more than 80 years later. “I would say Frank Capra fell in love with her,” biographer Victoria Wilson said of Barbara Stanwyck last night at Film Forum in New York City. ![]()
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