Barbara Stanwyck (née Ruby Catherine Stevens), an acclaimed and award-winning actress of stage and screen, died on January 20, 1990, at the age of 82. Stanwyck began her career as a vaudeville performer in 1922, when she was just sixteen. She quickly rose through the ranks of stage and film stardom. She earned a string of hits in Hollywood’s Golden Age, including ‘Baby Face’ (1933) and ‘Stella Dallas’ (1937).   Her illustrious career spanned five decades, during which she notched up over sixty film and television credits, including four Oscar® nominations. For her work in Hollywood, she won a Billy Wilder Award in 1981 and the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award in 1982. Stanwyck was beloved for her character portrayals, with a variety of roles that ran the gamut from hard-boiled gangster molls in the 1930s to feisty matriarchs in television westerns in the 1950s and 1960s. She will be remembered for her impressive accomplishments in film and television and for her dynamic, yet vulnerable, performances.