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Photo: Warner Bros.

Barbara Stanwyck is one of the greats, a gifted actor who combined girl-next-door approachability with the ethereal qualities of a glowing demi-goddess. Stanwyck could do it all: comedy, film noir, heartbreaking melodrama. And she's a spicy 24-year-old spitfire in director William A Wellman's lurid 1931 crime drama Night Nurse.

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