Stanwyck by Axel Madsen6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() However, none of them gave her the satisfaction she wanted, because her dream was to get into show business, but unfortunately, her sister was not in favor of this idea. After realizing that she would never be the girl waiting for a man to take care of her, she left school at 14 and started taking various odd jobs. In the meantime, Barbara began to show the independence and impressive personality that would make her one of the best talents in Hollywood from the very beginning. This, in addition to the movies of her idol, Pearl White, aroused her interest to become an actress. For two summers (19) Barbara went on tour with her sister Mildred and practiced her dance routines backstage. As a result, Barbara spent part of her childhood in many foster homes where she never stayed long enough to build up a bond. ![]() To make ends meet and take care of her younger siblings, Mildred began working as a showgirl. Barbara and her sibling, an older brother named Malcolm Byron, were then raised by her oldest sister, Laura Mildred. She lost her mother at the age of four and only two weeks after her mother’s funeral her father disappeared, who had gone to work with a crew that had dug the Panama Canal. ![]() The legendary actress was called Barbara Stanwyck for 60 years but she was born on July 16th, 1907 as Ruby Catherine Stevens by two working-class parents, Byron Stevens and Catherine Ann McPhee.īarbara had a really difficult childhood, so it would have been understandable if she had never made anything meaningful out of her life. ![]()
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