Person Details

Birthday: 1932-07-08 05:00:08

Death: 1980-09-05 05:00:08

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

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Movie Involvements: 14

TV Involvements: 1


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Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Splendor in the Grass
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8

Splendor in the Grass

(1961) Virginia 'Ginny' Stamper
Wanda
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7

Wanda

(1971) Wanda Goronski
Wild River
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7

Wild River

(1960) Betty Jackson
Arthur Miller: Writer
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7

Arthur Miller: Writer

(2017) Self (archive footage)
Fade-In
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3

Fade-In

(1973) Jean
The Frontier Experience
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5

The Frontier Experience

(1975) Delilah Fowler
I Am Wanda
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6

I Am Wanda

(1991) Interviewee
The Glass Menagerie
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6

The Glass Menagerie

(1966) Laura Wingfield

Acting

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1975 Director
Director
1970 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1975 Producer
Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1970 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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