Why was Barbara Stanwyck on the top 25 screen Legends??

Question

Im doing another project for school and i need to know why barbara stanwyck was on the top 25 screen legends list of her time and how she was influential! if anyone could help i would really appreciate it!!!

Answer 1

I'll try and give you as best a reason as I can. This is, of course, my own personal opinion.

Stanwyck starred in almost a hundred films during her career and received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress: Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948).

When Stanwyck's film career declined at age 50 in 1957 she moved to television. Her 1961–1962 series The Barbara Stanwyck Show was not a ratings success but earned the star her first Emmy Award. The 1965–1969 series The Big Valley made her one of the most popular actresses on television, winning her another Emmy. Twenty years later, she earned her third Emmy for The Thorn Birds.

Stanwyck hit her peak in the 1940s, alternating between comic roles, in classics such as "The Lady Eve" (1941) and "Ball of Fire" (1941), and tough femme fatale parts in "Double Indemnity" (1944) and "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946). Most of her characters were strong-willed and feisty, holding their own against, and even dominating, their male counterparts in film after film. That was what made her so powerful and influential. She paved the way for women to play a multitude of different characters instead of the usual Suzy Homemaker or hysterical, flighty woman roles.

In 1944 the IRS claimed that Stanwyck was the highest-paid woman in the USA, with an annual salary of $400,000