More than one man has attempted to take credit for the successes of writer-director Barbara Loden’s 1971 drama Wanda. After her death from cancer in 1980, suddenly everyone but her was responsible for ...

The opening sequence of Barbara Loden’s 1970 film Wanda betrays a bleak and desperate beauty. Extreme long shots dwarf nameless workers under sooty mountains of coal. Rugs air-dry from Rust Belt ...

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 ...

“If you don’t want anything, you won’t have anything. If you don’t have anything, you’re nothing, may as well be dead. You’re not even a citizen of the United States,” says the gruff customer Wanda ...