Are you aware that Miss Barbara Stanwyck's ashes were scattered in Lone Pine, California?

She loved the Old West.

Lone Pine was the set for many Westerns. It's an impressive list.

She was a muff diver.

I would have thought they were scattered in the Big Valley.

[quote] I would have thought they were scattered in the Big Valley.

That’s what she called her muff.

On some talk show Debbie Reynolds mentioned Stanwyck's lady friend then corrected herself "assistant" named Virginia.

Anybody have a copy of this. I'm a bit surprised Miss Stanwyck's estate went into probate.

^^^^

Missy requested there be no funeral or memorial service for her.

Bet it was the gals in her bowling league that scattered her ashes.

Lone Pine is gorgeous but it does seem a peculiar final stop for a kid from Brooklyn.

[quote] Where did her money go?

Why, OP, does she owe ya lunch money?

"Lone Pine is gorgeous but it does seem a peculiar final stop for a kid from Brooklyn."

She must have done some location shooting there, every actor from that era did. It's a gorgeous era, thinly populated even now, still a great place to get away from it all and experience real wide open spaces. And when the sun comes up on a clear morning, it hits the high mountains on the west of the valley like this... [pic]

It's not only a lovely and peaceful place in its own right, it's the complete fucking opposite of Brooklyn. Maybe that was what she wanted for a final resting place, or a reminder of how far she'd come in life.

Capucine RAVED about Lone Pine where she filmed North to Alaska with John Wayne. She talked about that lovely place up until the very end.

[quote] until the very end.

Splat.

The Museum of Western Film History is in Lone Pine. This might be a worthwhile day trip from Palm Springs.

I need to go to the movie museum, the next time I'm in the Owens Valley. Lone Pine is such a stunning place!

But it's way the hell and gone from where I am, the last time I tried the 7 hour drive I cancelled because it was snowing on the higher-elevation roads. In May.

Did Hollywood grieve for Barbara Stanwyck? Absolutely. She was a very popular person within the film community, famous for her loyalty to her friends.

Lone Pine is a great little town. About 15 miles to the north is another wonderful little place, Independence. Independence is where one of my favorite films noir was partly shot, Out of the Past, which starred Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer. Greer's character was one of the most treacherous in film noir history.

It was originally called Twin Pines until Marty McFly ran over one of them with a time Machine made out of a DeLorean.

Major League RepubliCUNT

Hardcore Reagan Rimmer

She adopted a child, then abandoned him at some point.

#classy

This thread is interesting. Apparently after not speaking for decades she left the son something in her will, on the provision he never speak of her.

[quote]” Barbara Stanwyck adopted a boy who just seemed to fade out of her life when he reached adulthood -- discarded, almost as if he were a chair or a table Stanwyck no longer found appealing".

Confidential Magazine (1960)

[bold]Barbara Stanwyck's Son Thinks It Over[/bold]

Hollywood kids have a habit of making headlines the hard way. Some - like Barbara Burns, Eddie Robinson Jr. and Cheryl Crane - started precociously in their teens. Others - Dennis Crosby and Diana Barrymore, for example - waited until they were of voting age.

And that's the way it was with Anthony D. Fay. A couple of days ago, at age 28, he reluctantly joined the list. The charge against him: attempting to sell lewd books to teenagers.

Not much of a crime for a Page 1 story, but that's part of the reason for the ever swelling public list of Hollywood's "bad children": If your father or your mother is a movie star, the spotlight catches you, too. Strangely, it almost passed Anthony Fay by.

When he was taken to the Venice police station last Friday, his name registered with no one. Then, while he was being booked, a pair of reporters dropped into the station. “Got a tip," one of them told the desk sergeant, "that Barbara Stanwyck's son has been arrested."

Fay held his breath as he watched the sergeant check the booking sheet. "Nope," the officer finally said. "Nothing here to indicate it." Standing just a few feet from the reporter, Fay sighed with relief.

A pair of hours later, one of the reporters was back, armed with the knowledge that Miss Stanwyck's son's legal name was Anthony Fay. Confronted, Fay denied he was the one. "A coincidence," he explained. The reporter left, not convinced, but not about to take a chance on printing the wrong identification. A few more hours passed and reporters were back with proof positive, so Fay denied it no longer. "But," he added plaintively, "it's the first time I've been in trouble in my life."

Yesterday, after his mother-in-law bailed him out of jail, I talked with Tony Fay. "I've got a wife and a kid," he told me. "They were the ones I was trying to protect. Not Barbara Stanwyck."

(CONT’D)

(CONT’D)

Tony is Miss Stanwyck's only child. In 1932, he was adopted as an infant by the actress and her first husband, Frank Fay. But for years, he told me, he's made it a point never to identify himself with his mother.

The reason? Well," he said, "it just wasn't important. I never saw her -- except for a lunch date in 1952 that was arranged by an uncle -- since she sent me away to military school in Indiana. My first year of high school.

"I was a bad student," he continued, "I guess that bothered her. She didn't expect me to be a genius or anything, but she wanted me to take advantage of the education she was buying for me. I didn't. I didn't do anything real wrong. I just wasn't interested.

"I was told that she would have sent me to any college I wanted to go to," Tony added. "I'm sorry now that I didn't take advantage of the offer.

"I guess it was more my fault than it was hers. How we each went our separate ways."

After high school graduation, Tony put in two years of honorable service in the Army. After that, he took employment where he found it. At first, he lived with the man he calls his uncle, James Mack, an old vaudeville actor who was a friend of the family and the go-between for Tony and his mother for years.

Three years ago, he married a girl he met on a blind date. "We've got debts," he said, "but we get by, or at least, we were getting by." The most he ever earned was $90 a week. He's been out of work since last November. He told police that he tried to sell the lewd books for money to tide him over until his next unemployment check.

I asked him if he'd tried to push the touch on his mother.

"No," he answered.

"Obviously," I added, "she didn't even go to your wedding."

"I invited her but she didn't make it. She bought us a bathroom set, though," he said. "And when the baby was born, she bought furniture for him and sent us $100.

“It still bothers me," he added quietly, "that she's never come to see her only grandson, my son."

I asked him if he'd thought about that son when he was walking the streets, peddling pornography on other kids.

"I don't know what I thought," he replied. "I just don't know."

Good.

[quote]Barbara Burns

Who the hell is Barbara Burns?

Frank Fay's short burst of movie stardom in the early 1930s is inexplicable, if GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN is anything to go by. He's supposedly a chick magnet (Louise Brooks is one of the chicks), but he comes across as a total Screaming Queen.

He was so forgotten in 1960 he barely rate a mention.

[Quote]Actor Robert Wagner wrote that Fay was "...one of the most dreadful men in the history of show business. Fay was a drunk, an anti-Semite, and a wife-beater

Stanwyck's marriage lasted 6 years with this guy. WTF?

Barbara was something of a masochist when it came to relationships. She had to adopt because a botched abortion left her barren. Being orphaned at an early age and being shunted in and out of foster care during her formative years probably had an effect on the relationship she had with Dion. She didn't know how to be warm and motherly because she had never experienced it herself. Not to justify her behavior towards him, but it does explain it a bit. She was also a huge introvert and didn't like the Tinseltown scene. I don't know who her lover was, although I've heard rumors about her housekeeper Harriet and her being thisclose. She may have rubbed tacos with Dietrich and Crawford; she went to the horse races with Joan a lot. Who knows?

r30 My grandfather and father worked in the film business, as did I. We were not a family that engaged in much gossip, and my grandmother told me cautionary stories about so-called "industry insiders" and their tales. She gave me examples of A-listers and their bits of "insider" gossip that contradicted each other. However, some of the most persistent gossip that leaked through was about a close relationship between Stanwyck and Joan Crawford. Stanwyck was particularly incensed when Mommie Dearest was first published, but so were numerous other people in Hollywood.

[quote] I would have thought they were scattered in the Big Valley.

I would have guessed a safe deposit box in Stockton.

She had her ashes thrown on Linda Evans.

I understand they were scattered like this, between someone's tits.

I think that there was something going on between Barbara and Joan r31. And wasn’t it also posted here about Barbara and Nancy Sinatra, Sr.? Barbara was a conservative so she’d have played the lesbian thing close to her vest.

r35 Stanwyck and Nancy Sinatra Snr? Wow. I hadn't heard that one.

Joan and Barbara were probably friends because of their rough upbringings, who knows if they ever fucked. I mean, I think Babs liked the ladies and Joan would fuck a doorknob if she had anything to gain by it, but couldn't Babs do better?

Yes, I know Crawford fucked everyone who was of any use to her, but I'd bet real money there was no real passion anywhere in her. I think she fucked around because she could benefit herself or boost her ego, not because she liked it... and certainly not because she liked intimacy with other humans!

R22 Deeply committed Family Values or studio PR photo-prop??