Barbara Stanwyck, born Ruby Catherine Stevens (July 16, 1907 - January 20, 1990), was an American actress, model and dancer. During her 60-year professional career, Stanwyck was known for her strong, realistic screen presence and versatility. She was nominated four times for a Best Actress Academy Award, received an Honorary Oscar in 1982, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1986. This recording includes a 1989 interview, followed by a...

Kathy (Barbara Stanwyck) leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill (Sterling Hayden) but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a very dangerous path.

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

Return to Barkley Ranch and join in the adventures of The Big Valley, Season Three! The rich and powerful Barkley clan- matriarch Victoria, her bold sons Jarrod, Nick, and Heath, and her headstrong daughter Audra, are back to face the challenges of the not-yet-tamed West. Featuring all twenty-six third season episodes of the beloved series.

A down-and-out singer finds a home with a financially-troubled traveling carnival.

Return once more to the Barkley Ranch for the fourth and final season of the television Western favorite. Victoria Barkley and her close-knit family-sons Jarrod, Nick and Heath, and daughter Audra, are back for twenty-six episodes of high drama and thrilling adventure.

Lee Leander is a petty shoplifter on trial for swiping an expensive bracelet from a local jewelry store. When her trial is postponed until after New Year's, sympathetic Assistant District Attorney John Sargent bails her out of jail. Together, they find themselves falling in love when he invites her to his family's home for the holidays where she discovers the warmth and love she's never had but always wanted.

At the height of the Chinese Civil War, American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai to marry another missionary, Robert Strike. As soon as she arrives, however, the couple must save a group of orphans from a fire. Injured and separated from her fiance, Megan is rescued and taken to the home of General Yen. While Megan and the general grow closer, one of the general2s concubines seems to be secretly working for Yen's enemies.

When popular advice columnist Kathy Ferguson falls hard for police detective Bill Doyle she marries him with every expectation of being a devoted and supportive wife. At first, Kathy enjoys her new role of suburban homemaker, but before long she tires of her mundane existence which is exacerbated by Bill's lack of ambition. To fix her dilemma, Kathy schemes to further Bill's career by any means necessary.

On a ski trip, rich, idle Peter pursues and falls (literally) for Helen Hunt, M.D. After a courtship of hypochondria, she agrees to marry him on the condition that she will continue to practice medicine. Will the very jealous Peter be able to reconcile himself to his wife seeing male patients? Newly remastered.