ALL SHE DESIRES: BARBARA STANWYCK

Grand Hotel Majestic, Café Marinetti Via dell’Indipendenza 8
20 June – 12 July 2026 
Monday-Sunday 11am-6pm
Free admission

Barbara Stanwyck’s ability to establish an immediate connection with audiences begins with her voice. It could be metallic, almost masculine and cutting, or soft as a feather pillow – qualities ideally suited to an actress at home in every genre, from the woman’s film to the western, by way of noir and screwball comedy. More iconoclast than icon, a character actress rather than a great beauty or a glossy star, she was often undervalued in her own day. Yet her art of understatement – the fluidity of movement, stillness in repose, restrained intensity – seems surprisingly modern today. At the Cafè Marinetti: a selection of magnificent photographs from the most important international archives.