Vintage 1948 Barbara Stanwyck Fashion Photograph Irene Designed Lounging Robe
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:7251692 | Size: 8" x 10" |
| Country/Region of Manufacture: United States | Subject: Barbara Stanwyck |
| Original/Reproduction: Original | Modified Item: No |
| Film: B.F.'s Daughter (1948) |
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ITEM: This is a vintage and original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production still photograph from the 1948 drama film B.F.'s Daughter, directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Barbara Stanwyck. This fashionable art deco moderne studio portrait features Stanwyck modeling a chic lounging robe designed by Irene for the film. The film noir icon is gorgeous in the clean lines and pale colors of this robe that is certainly a far cry from the loungewear of today!
The press snipe reads, "AT HOME FOR BARBARA...While lounging around home, Barbara Stanwyck likes to wear outfits that combine both practicalness and attractiveness. In her forthcoming picture 'B.F.'s Daughter, ' she will wear five such ensembles created by Irene, famed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer famed designer. FOR LEISURE-HOUR LOUNGING..This pale peach robe of wool jersey is wonderful for chilly mornings. It features smart simple lines broken only by the rolled cord collar and matching midriff. The narrow coral belt hugs the front of the robe to the waist and slips inside two slots to allow the full back to fall free."
A film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, Stanwyck was a favorite of directors Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.
Measures 8" x 10" on a glossy single weight paper stock.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ink stamp and typed studio text on verso.
CONDITION: Fine condition with soft corners and light storage/handling wear. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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Today Barbara Stanwyck is remembered primarily as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkleys on the TV western The Big Valley (1965), wherein she played Victoria, and from the hit drama The Colbys (1985). But she was known to millions of other fans for her movie career, which spanned the period from 1927 until 1964, after which she appeared on television until 1986. It was a career that lasted for 59 years.
Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Catherine Stevens on July 16, 1907, in Brooklyn, New York, to working class parents Catherine Ann (McPhee) and Byron E. Stevens. Her father, from Massachusetts, had English ancestry, and her Canadian mother, from Nova Scotia, was of Scottish and Irish descent. Stanwyck went to work at the local telephone company for fourteen dollars a week, but she had the urge (a dream--that was all it was) somehow to enter show business. When not working, she pounded the pavement in search of dancing jobs. The persistence paid off. Barbara was hired as a chorus girl for the princely sum of $40 a week, much better than the wages she was getting from the phone company. She was seventeen, and was going to make the most of the opportunity that had been given her.
In 1928 Barbara moved to Hollywood, where she was to start one of the most lucrative careers filmdom had ever seen. She was an extremely versatile actress who could adapt to any role. Barbara was equally at home in all genres, from melodramas, such as Forbidden (1932) and Stella Dallas (1937), to thrillers, such as Double Indemnity (1944), one of her best films, also starring Fred MacMurray (as you have never seen him before). She also excelled in comedies such as Remember the Night (1940) and The Lady Eve (1941). Another genre she excelled in was westerns, Union Pacific (1939) being one of her first and TV's The Big Valley (1965) (her most memorable role) being her last. In 1983, she played in the ABC hit mini-series The Thorn Birds (1983), which did much to keep her in the eye of the public. She turned in an outstanding performance as Mary Carson.
Barbara was considered a gem to work with for her serious but easygoing attitude on the set. She worked hard at being an actress, and she never allowed her star quality to go to her head. She was nominated for four Academy Awards, though she never won. She turned in magnificent performances for all the roles she was nominated for, but the "powers that be" always awarded the Oscar to someone else. However, in 1982 she was awarded an honorary Academy Award for "superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting." Sadly, Barbara died on January 20, 1990, leaving 93 movies and a host of TV appearances as her legacy to us.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson
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Irene Maud Lentz was born on December 8, 1901 in Baker. Montana. When she was a teenager she moved to Hollywood to become an actress. She found work as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and appeared in the comedies Picking Peaches and A Tailor-Made Man. Irene married director F. Richard Jones in 1929. Tragically he died a year later from tuberculosis. To make extra money Irene decided to open a dress shop. In 1933 she was asked to design the clothes for Lily Damita in Goldie Gets Along. She quickly became one of Hollywood's top costumes designers. Irene had a passionate affair with actor Gary Cooper. She later said he was the only man she really loved. In 1936 she married Elliot Gibbons, a writer. Irene became the head costume designer at MGM where she created iconic costumes for Lana Turner and Judy Garland.
She was nominated for an academy Award in 1948 for her work on B.F.'s Daughter. Eventually she left MGM to open her own fashion house. Unfortunately her marriage to Elliot was troubled and they began living apart. In 1960 Irene's close friend Doris Day asked her to design the clothes for Midnight Lace. She received her second Academy Award nomination for her work on the film. By this time Irene had a serious drinking problem and was suffering from depression. On November 15, 1962 Irene checked into the Knickerbocker hotel in Hollywood. She committed suicide by jumping out of a bathroom window. Irene was sixty-one years old. In her suicide note she wrote ""I'm sorry. This is the best way." She was buried next to her first husband at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Elizabeth Ann
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