Died Today (January 20th): Barbara Stanwyck (1907–1990)

Barbara Stanwyck (1907–1990)

Born: July 16, 1907 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: January 20, 1990 (age 82) in Santa Monica, California, USA

[on filming Titanic (1953)] The night we were making the scene of the dying ship in the outdoor tank at Twentieth, it was bitter cold. I was 47 feet up in the air in a lifeboat swinging on the davits. The water below was agitated into a heavy rolling mass and it was thick with other lifeboats full of women and children. I looked down and thought, “If one of these ropes snaps now, it’s good-by for you”. Then I looked up at the faces lined along the rail -those left behind to die with the ship. I thought of the men and women who had been through this thing in our time. We were re-creating an actual tragedy and I burst into tears…