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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.81 |
Birthday | 1932-07-08 |
Place of Birth | Asheville, North Carolina, USA |
Also Known As | 바바라 로든, 바버라 로든, Barbara Ann Loden, |
![Wanda](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/izuJ7cUhcihFnTpfsdSnkMCHsRQ.jpg)
1970
![Wanda](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/izuJ7cUhcihFnTpfsdSnkMCHsRQ.jpg)
Wanda
6.827/130
After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.
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Wanda
![Wild River](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/nvviqfA5RXz4UGgDKlEwzocisxD.jpg)
1960
![Wild River](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/nvviqfA5RXz4UGgDKlEwzocisxD.jpg)
Wild River
7.298/84
A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the loca...
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Wild River
![Fade-In](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/uWjy9XySdLnmBKvqTZPtUJFnKLx.jpg)
1973
![Fade-In](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/uWjy9XySdLnmBKvqTZPtUJFnKLx.jpg)
Fade-In
3.6/5
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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Fade-In
![Splendor in the Grass](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/n6Kw8Ui93SMhrk1MupCFwUg04vq.jpg)
1961
![Splendor in the Grass](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/n6Kw8Ui93SMhrk1MupCFwUg04vq.jpg)
Splendor in the Grass
7.466/262
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 madne...
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Splendor in the Grass
![The Glass Menagerie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/uHxAgxwIzQbim4xQZFlPoMld2oh.jpg)
1966
![The Glass Menagerie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/uHxAgxwIzQbim4xQZFlPoMld2oh.jpg)
The Glass Menagerie
6/2
An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Lau...
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The Glass Menagerie
![The Frontier Experience](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/txO7LqKpyR90vRdthr9LLqdESMj.jpg)
1975
![The Frontier Experience](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/txO7LqKpyR90vRdthr9LLqdESMj.jpg)
The Frontier Experience
5/1
The Westward movement — and a woman's perspective of that movement — emerges in the dramatic story of Delilah Fowler's first year on the Kansas fronti...
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The Frontier Experience
![I Am Wanda](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/nLMisqUjHiOQQHNIMZZrlA5YUDe.jpg)
1980
![I Am Wanda](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/nLMisqUjHiOQQHNIMZZrlA5YUDe.jpg)
I Am Wanda
6/1
Documentary about American film director and actress Barbara Loden featuring an interview filmed in 1980.
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I Am Wanda
![Arthur Miller: Writer](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/4rbcPwvCY96pKucwQ5EawgojANv.jpg)
2017
![Arthur Miller: Writer](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/4rbcPwvCY96pKucwQ5EawgojANv.jpg)
Arthur Miller: Writer
7.3/16
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which contin...
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