#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Barbara Stanwyck

• Highest paid woman of 1944, earning $400,000
• Stood up to the producers of "Golden Boy" (1939) to keep William Holden on the picture after a string of bad performances
• Persuaded Jack Warner to buy the rights of The Fountainhead before it became a best-seller
• Was an early member of the Motion Picture for the Preservation of American Ideals
• Performed a stunt in "Forty Guns" (1957) in which she had to fall off a horse with her foot caught in the stirrup and being dragged around because the stunt actor refused to do this. This named her an Honorary Member of the Hollywood Stuntmen's Hall of Fame.
• Helped mold future-husband Robert Taylor into an actor and lived together before getting married in 1939