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XanaDUer2

(10,643 posts)
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 08:00 PM Dec 2021

Watching The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

On TCM.

Today I learned Barbara Stanwyck was a very conservative Republican and a big Ayn Rand fan.

Kirk Douglas allegedly sexually assaulted 15-yr-old Natalie Wood when she met him alone in a hotel.

So much behind the Hollywood sets and scenes.

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Watching The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Original Post) XanaDUer2 Dec 2021 OP
I love that movie! Siwsan Dec 2021 #1
It was nt XanaDUer2 Dec 2021 #2
I've heard that before. I also heard that husband Robert Taylor was, shall we say... brush Dec 2021 #3
I've heard that, too XanaDUer2 Dec 2021 #4
Barbara Stanwyk's film "Night Nurse" is one of my favorites. It's a real hoot. I am a pediatric mucifer Dec 2021 #5
I'll see if I can catch it sometime nt XanaDUer2 Dec 2021 #6

brush

(53,764 posts)
3. I've heard that before. I also heard that husband Robert Taylor was, shall we say...
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 08:07 PM
Dec 2021

a beard.

Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor were the darlings of Hollywood, and their marriage seemed perfect. However, film historians have constantly analyzed their union.

Their match has been considered a 'lavender marriage' — a relationship of convenience, fictitious, and arranged from the beginning. Critics suspect its purpose was to hide the stars' true sexual orientations.

Even though Stanwyck never spoke openly of her sexuality, her Biographer Axel Madsen once described her as the most famous lesbian in the closet of Hollywood.


https://news.amomama.com/282156-barbara-stanwyck-robert-taylor-allegedly.html

mucifer

(23,530 posts)
5. Barbara Stanwyk's film "Night Nurse" is one of my favorites. It's a real hoot. I am a pediatric
Fri Dec 3, 2021, 08:26 PM
Dec 2021

nurse and remember when I worked in a hospital me and a bunch of coworkers watched it. We would talk like the characters It's soooo campy. Nick... the chauffeur! is so awesome. Clark Gable. The bootlegger was great, too.

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