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Barbara Stanwyck - Wikipedia Oops, something didn't work. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. I remember Barbara and her family as good faithful people. As an adult, Barbara was determined to be like her brother, Robert Gilyard (who also starred in films). She followed with a performance as an ambitious woman "sleeping" her way to the top from "the wrong side of the tracks" in Baby Face (1933), a controversial pre-Code classic. [83] During filming of To Please a Lady, Stanwyck refused to leave her African-American maid Harriet Coray in a hotel only for African-American people and insisted that she share the same hotel as her. I had great plans for her, but the Hollywood offers kept coming. "[1] She made her debut on stage in the chorus as a Ziegfeld girl in 1923 at age 16, and within a few years was acting in plays. At the age of 20, she had already appeared in a number of smaller roles. Louis B. Mayer had insisted that Stanwyck and Taylor marry and went as far as presiding over arrangements at the wedding. [100], In 1982, while filming The Thorn Birds, Stanwyck inhaled special-effects smoke on the set that may have caused her to contract bronchitis, which was compounded by her cigarette-smoking habit. Barbara is also survived by her great-grandchildren (in order of birth): Cerenity Atkins, Michael Craig, and An'el Ward. She really loved to see her grandchildren, and recently commented that she wasn't sure which group of kids were having more fun running around her house. Published by Press-Telegram on May 5, 2012. Mother's name was Joanna Ballard.Father's name was Henry Ballard.Childrens' names were Barbara Alexander; Karen Gilyard and her husband Robert Ward.Sibling's name was Marian Batts.Our loving mother, grandmother and friend Barbara Gilyard passed away in Norwalk, California on April 29, 2012 at the age of 76.Barbara was born to Henry and Joanna Ballard. Barbara most recently lived in Bellflower, California and really enjoyed the people in her community there, including her bible study group, local church group, and apartment neighbors.Barbara is survived by (in order of birth): her daughter Barbara Alexander, her son Clarence Gilyard and his wife Elena, her son Milton Gilyard, her daughter Karen Gilyard and her husband Robert Ward, her son Gerald Gilyard and his wife Richell, and her son Reginald Gilyard and his wife Suji Woo.

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