
Carroll Baker
Born May 28, 1931 · Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is a former American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, as a movie sex symbol. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. In the mid-1960s, as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker became a sex symbol after appearing as a hedonistic widow in The Carpetbaggers (1964). The film's producer, Joseph E. Levine, cast her in Sylvia before giving her the role of Jean Harlow in the biopic Harlow (1965). Despite significant prepublicity, Harlow was a critical failure, and Baker relocated to Italy in 1966 amid a legal dispute over her contract with Paramount and Levine's overseeing of her career. In Europe, she spent the next 10 years starring in hard-edged giallo and horror films, including Romolo Guerrieri's The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968), a series of four films with Umberto Lenzi beginning with Orgasmo (1969) and ending with Knife of Ice (1972), and Corrado Farina's Baba Yaga (1973). Baker appeared in supporting roles in several acclaimed dramas in the 1980s, including the drama Star 80 (1983) as the mother of murder victim Dorothy Stratten, and the racial drama Native Son (1986), based on the novel by Richard Wright. Through the 1990s Baker had guest roles in several television series, such as Murder, She Wrote; L.A. Law, and Roswell. She formally retired from acting in 2003.
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But Not for Me

Baby Doll

Ironweed

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Mister Moses

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

A Kiss to Die For

James Dean: The First American Teenager

Cyclone

A Quiet Place to Kill

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

The World Is Full of Married Men

Judgment Day: The John List Story

Heart Full of Rain

Something Wild

The Carpetbaggers

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

In the Flesh

The Sweet Body of Deborah

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

Blackmail Chase

Paranoia

Captain Apache

Knife of Ice

Skeletons

Another Woman's Husband

Bridge to the Sun

Blonde Fist

The Devil with Seven Faces

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

The Fourth Victim

Just Your Luck

Easy to Love

Red Monarch

Harlow

Native Son

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

Sylvia

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

Baba Yaga

The Sky is Falling

Heart of the Festival

Station Six-Sahara

Rag and Bone

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

Lionpower from MGM

Valentina... The Virgin Wife

Men Don't Tell

Jack of Diamonds

The Miracle

Dalva

North Shore Fish

Fun in the Big Country

The Flower with Petals of Steel

La signora della città

Gipsy Angel

On Fire

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

What Mad Pursuit

Shattered Dreams

Cyber Eden

Cinerama Adventure

The Harem

Return to 'Giant'

Baby Doll: See No Evil

The Body

The Next Victim

Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

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