"Fifteen years in the making, the first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound--the first to delve deeply into Stanwyck's rich, complex life and to explore her extraordinary range of eighty-eight motion pictures, many of them iconic; her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century. Frank Capra called her, "The...

1940s. When a human thumb is discovered near a Hollywood nightclub, the police identify its owner: it belongs to Rosemary-- and so does the body buried beneath it. Rosemary stood out on the Paramount lot: she was the one destined for a movie marquee. When an LAPD detective thinks Penny Harp is the murderer, she's determined to prove her innocence-- with a little help from Barbara Stanwyck. But Penny isn't telling her partner a secret that could...