Barbara Loden

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1932-07-08

Deathday 1980-09-05 (48 years old)

Place of Birth Asheville, North Carolina, USA

Also Known As 바바라 로든, 바버라 로든, Barbara Ann Loden

Barbara Loden

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
Daytime Revolution

as Self (archive footage)

2017
Arthur Miller: Writer

as Self (archive footage)

1980
I Am Wanda

as Self

1975
The Frontier Experience

as Delilah Fowler

1973
Fade-In

as Jean

1970
Wanda

as Wanda Goronski

1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1966
The Glass Menagerie

as Laura Wingfield

1961
Splendor in the Grass

as Ginny Stamper

1960
Wild River

as Betty Jackson

1958
Naked City

as Penny Sonners

Director

1975
1975
1970
Wanda

as Director

Producer

1975
1975

Writer

1970
Wanda

as Writer