Barbara Loden

Barbara Loden

Barbara Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980) was a Broadway Tony award-winning American stage and film actress, model, and stage/film director. She was the first woman to write, direct and star in her own feature film, Wanda, which won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival. Loden also directed several off-Broadway plays. Loden was a life member of the famed Actors Studio and appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including Splendor in the Grass. In 1970 Loden wrote, produced, directed, and starred in her own independent film, Wanda, made with the collaboration of cinematographer and editor Nicholas T. Proferes, on a meager budget of $115,000. Wanda is an semi-autobiographical portrait of a "passive, disconnected coal miner's wife who attaches herself to a petty crook."[4] Innovative in its cinéma vérité style, it was one of the few American films directed by a woman to be theatrically released at that time. Film critic David Thomson wrote, "Wanda is full of unexpected moments and raw atmosphere, never settling for cliché in situation or character." The film was the only American film accepted to, and which won, the International Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1970, and was presented at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, with support from Gucci, the film was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and screened at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.

  • Popularity : 1.733
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1932-07-08
  • Place of Birth : Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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Barbara Loden Movies

  • 2017
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    Arthur Miller: Writer

    Arthur Miller: Writer

    7.105 2017 HD

    One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which...

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  • 1961
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    Splendor in the Grass

    Splendor in the Grass

    7.5 1961 HD

    A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and...

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  • 1970
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    Wanda

    Wanda

    6.8 1970 HD

    After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.

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  • 1960
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    Wild River

    Wild River

    7.3 1960 HD

    A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the...

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  • 1973
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    Fade-In

    Fade-In

    3.6 1973 HD

    A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.

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  • 1966
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    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    6.333 1966 HD

    An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister,...

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  • 1975
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    The Frontier Experience

    The Frontier Experience

    5 1975 HD

    The Westward movement — and a woman's perspective of that movement — emerges in the dramatic story of Delilah Fowler's first year on the...

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  • 1980
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    I Am Wanda

    I Am Wanda

    6 1980 HD

    Documentary about American film director and actress Barbara Loden featuring an interview filmed in 1980.

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  • 2024
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    Daytime Revolution

    Daytime Revolution

    10 2024 HD

    For one extraordinary week in February 1972, the Revolution WAS televised. DAYTIME REVOLUTION takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and...

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  • 1970
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    Wanda

    Wanda

    6.8 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Wanda

    Wanda

    6.8 1970 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Boy Who Liked Deer

    The Boy Who Liked Deer

    6.2 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Frontier Experience

    The Frontier Experience

    5 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Frontier Experience

    The Frontier Experience

    5 1975 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Boy Who Liked Deer

    The Boy Who Liked Deer

    6.2 1975 HD

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  • 1958
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    Naked City

    Naked City

    5.3 1958 HD

    Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the...

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  • 1966
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    CBS Playhouse

    CBS Playhouse

    7 1966 HD

    CBS Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series...

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  • 1958
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    Today Is Ours

    Today Is Ours

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1961
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    Kraft Mystery Theatre

    Kraft Mystery Theatre

    6 1961 HD

    Kraft Mystery Theatre is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from June 17, 1961 to September 25, 1963.

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  • 1968
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    The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

    6.658 1968 HD

    The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    5.1 1961 HD

    The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

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