Items19The creator’s order
  1. 1The Lady Eve (1941)The Lady Eve (1941) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 25, 1941Watch Stanwyck size up Henry Fonda's bashful snake researcher. Her card sharp makes the con feel like a game she has already won, which is what makes the moments when she falls for him so funny and so risky.0
  2. 2Double Indemnity (1944)Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 6, 1944Phyllis Dietrichson sizes up an insurance salesman in her living room and gets him thinking about murder. Stanwyck makes the hard-boiled flirtation sound like a negotiation, with every small concession getting him in deeper.0
  3. 3Ball of Fire (1941)Ball of Fire (1941) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 2, 1941As Sugarpuss O'Shea, Stanwyck brings a whole new vocabulary into a houseful of academics. She rolls out the slang as if the professors are lucky to keep up, and Gary Cooper's earnest reactions make the smallest exchanges crackle.0
  4. 4Stella Dallas (1937)Stella Dallas (1937) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 6, 1937Stella pours herself into raising her daughter, and Stanwyck lets pride and embarrassment play across her face almost at once. Watch the way she makes an outspoken woman painfully aware of the room around her without ever asking for pity.0
  5. 5Baby Face (1933)Baby Face (1933) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 13, 1933Lily Powers climbs through the offices of Gotham Trust by spotting the vanity of each man in her way. The movie moves fast, and Stanwyck gives Lily the calm of someone who has already worked out what every conversation can get her.0
  6. 6Christmas in Connecticut (1945)Christmas in Connecticut (1945) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 27, 1945A homemaking columnist who can't cook has to put her make-believe household on display for Christmas dinner. Stanwyck plays the scramble with the confidence of a woman improvising the next lie while everyone else is still processing the last one.0
  7. 7Remember the Night (1940)Remember the Night (1940) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased Jan 19, 1940A prosecutor takes an accused shoplifter home for Christmas. Stanwyck lets the welcome register in small steps, making the cozy setting feel tentative and giving the romance a little sting. Pair it with Double Indemnity to see her and Fred MacMurray turn that chemistry a different way.0
  8. 8The Mad Miss Manton (1938)The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 21, 1938Stanwyck's heiress comes armed with a lawsuit when a newspaper editor mocks her involvement in a murder case. The pleasure is in how crisply she gives Henry Fonda a hard time while her society friends turn the investigation into a group outing.0
  9. 9The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 19, 1946Stanwyck and Kirk Douglas play a married couple bound together by an old secret. Watch her chilly impatience whenever his character hesitates. Their scenes have the tension of a long marriage in which every ordinary exchange could give something away.0
  10. 10Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 24, 1948Confined to bed, a woman overhears a murder plot on the telephone. Stanwyck makes impatience sound like a means of survival as the calls pile up. Start here if you want her intensity in a story where she can hear the danger coming and can barely move to meet it.0