by Trevor Stottlemyer
Universal continues its Backlot Series this April with a super cool collection of rare gems featuring Barbara Stanwyck.  The set is scheduled for release on April 27th, 2010. The retail price is $ 49.99 and the set consists of 3 DVD’s with two films per disc. The listed films below span a 19 year period of Stanwyck’s career.
Internes Can't Take Money (1937)- In a fantastically art-deco hospital, young Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who's been in prison and can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent. Directed by Alfred Santell
The Great Man's Lady (1942)- In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years. Directed by William A Wellman.
The Bride Wore Boots (1946)- A bookish historian is married to a steely Southern belle who raises horses, an animal that he doesn't care for. However, the cute young neighbor girl doesn't feel that way about him and makes no bones about letting him know it. Directed by Irving Pichel.
The Lady Gambles (1949) - When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her. Directed by Michael Gordon
All I Desire (1953) - An actress who has been estranged from her family, returns to her hometown to see her daughter in a school play. Directed by Douglas Sirk.
There's Always Tomorrow (1956) - Portrait of a middle class man bound by family obligation and the trappings of suburban life in the stifling and conformist America of the 1950's.Directed By Douglas Sirk.
*Film synopses from TCM website.

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