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      Carroll Baker

      Carroll Baker

      Highest Rated: 100% The Big Country (1958)

      Lowest Rated: 33% The Carpetbaggers (1964)

      Birthday: May 28, 1931

      Birthplace: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

      A talented former dancer and magician's assistant, voluptuous, blonde bombshell Carroll Baker came under the private tutelage of Lee Strasberg once in NYC, eventually becoming a member of the famed Actors Studio. She had appeared in a bit role in "Easy to Love" (1953), but it was her performance on Broadway in Robert Anderson's "All Summer Long" (1955) that led director Elia Kazan and playwright-screenwriter Tennessee Williams to chose her (over Marilyn Monroe) for their classic "Baby Doll" (1956). Although George Steven's "Giant," which opened two months earlier that same year, introduced Baker as a terrific screen presence, it did not prepare anyone for her sizzling portrayal as the underage and overly ripe wife of Karl Malden, whose erotic thumb-sucking and torrid "love scene" (without a single kiss) played with Eli Wallach on a swing outside the house somehow slipped past the Hays' censors, earning her a much-deserved Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Condemned by the Catholic Church's Legion of Decency because of its "carnal suggestiveness," "Baby Doll" established Baker solidly as an A-list actor.

      Highest rated movies

      The Big Country
      Giant
      How the West Was Won
      Baby Doll
      Star 80
      The Game
      Bad
      Cheyenne Autumn

      Photos

      BABY DOLL, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, 1956 SOMETHING WILD, Carroll Baker, 1961. THE MIRACLE, from left, Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, 1959 BABY DOLL, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, 1956 BABY DOLL, Eli Wallach, Carroll Baker, 1956 BABY DOLL, Carroll Baker, 1956 HOW THE WEST WAS WON, Carroll Baker, Agnes Moorehead, Karl Malden, Debbie Reynolds, 1962 SOMETHING WILD, from left: producer George Justin, Carroll Baker, director Jack Garfein, at a tradepress luncheon at Cavanagh's in New York City, 1961 CHEYENNE AUTUMN, Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, 1964 BABY DOLL, Carroll Baker, 1956 THE MIRACLE, Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, 1959 BABY DOLL, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, 1956 SYLVIA, Paul Gilbert, Carroll Baker, 1965 BIG COUNTRY, portrait of the cast, 1958 SOMETHING WILD, Ralph Meeker, Carroll Baker, 1961. GIANT, from left: Rock Hudson, Carroll Baker, Chill Wills, 1956 GIANT, from left: Carroll Baker, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, 1956 THE CARPETBAGGERS, Robert Cummings, Carroll Baker, 1964 THE BIG COUNTRY, from left: Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker, Gregory Peck, 1958 BIG COUNTRY, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker with director William Wyler, 1958
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet 82% Cinerama Adventure Self - 2002
      No Score Yet 48% Another Woman's Husband Laurel's Mom (Character) - 2000
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Silent Hearts Nana (Character) - 1998
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Rag and Bone Sister Marie (Character) - 1998
      77% 84% The Game Ilsa (Character) $48.3M 1997
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Heart Full of Rain Edith Pearl Dockett (Character) - 1997
      No Score Yet 45% Skeletons Nancy Norton (Character) - 1997
      No Score Yet No Score Yet North Shore Fish Arlyne (Character) - 1997
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Dalva Naomi (Character) - 1996
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Just Your Luck Momie (Character) - 1996
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Desperate Measures Elaine Mitchelson (Character) - 1993
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Judgment Day: The John List Story Alma List (Character) - 1993
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Blonde Fist Lovelle Summers (Character) - 1991
      53% 52% Kindergarten Cop Eleanor Crisp (Character) $88.6M 1990
      58% 59% Ironweed Annie Phelan (Character) $6.9M 1987
      No Score Yet No Score Yet On Fire Maureen (Character) - 1987
      50% 25% Native Son Mrs. Dalton (Character) $374.6K 1986
      No Score Yet 39% Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil Gerda Hoffman (Character) - 1985
      No Score Yet 50% The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud Mama Freud (Character) - 1984
      81% 70% Star 80 Dorothy's Mother (Character) - 1983
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Red Monarch Brown (Character) - 1983
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Terror Storm Sheila (Character) - 1982
      50% 57% The Watcher in the Woods Helen Curtis (Character) - 1980
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The World Is Full of Married Men Linda Cooper (Character) - 1980
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Bloodbath Treasure (Character) - 1979
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Cyclone Sheila (Character) - 1978
      No Score Yet No Score Yet My Father's Wife Laura (Character) - 1978
      67% 66% Bad Hazel Aiken (Character) - 1977
      No Score Yet No Score Yet At Last, At Last Lucia (Character) - 1977
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Satan's Doll Unknown (Character) - 1976
      No Score Yet No Score Yet As of Tomorrow Polly Pott (Character) - 1976
      No Score Yet 89% James Dean, the First American Teen-ager Unknown (Character) - 1975
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Next Victim Sandy Marshall (Character) - 1975
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Town of the Damned Treasure (Character) - 1975
      No Score Yet 8% A Quiet Place to Kill Helen (Character) - 1973
      No Score Yet 45% Kiss Me, Kill Me Baba Yaga (Character) - 1973
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Knife of Ice Martha Caldwell (Character) - 1972
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Devil Has Seven Faces Julie Harrison/Mary Harrison (Character) - 1971
      No Score Yet 35% Captain Apache Maude (Character) - 1971
      No Score Yet 10% Bloody Mary Unknown (Character) - 1971
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fourth Victim Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin (Character) - 1971
      No Score Yet 31% So Sweet... So Perverse Nicole Perrier (Character) - 1969
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Paranoia Kathryn West (Character) - 1968
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sweet Body of Deborah Deborah (Character) - 1968
      No Score Yet 43% Jack of Diamonds Carroll Baker (Character) - 1967
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Sylvia Sylvia: West (Character) - 1965
      No Score Yet 46% Harlow Jean Harlow (Character) - 1965
      42% 64% The Greatest Story Ever Told Veronica (Character) - 1965
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Mister Moses Julie Anderson (Character) - 1965
      60% 45% Cheyenne Autumn Deborah Wright (Character) - 1964
      33% 61% The Carpetbaggers Rina Marlowe Cord (Character) - 1964
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Station Six-Sahara Catherine (Character) - 1963
      87% 74% How the West Was Won Eve Prescott (Character) - 1962
      No Score Yet 79% Bridge to the Sun Gwen Terasaki (Character) - 1961
      50% 42% Something Wild Mary Ann Robinson (Character) - 1961
      No Score Yet 71% But Not for Me Ellie Brown/Borden (Character) - 1959
      No Score Yet 17% The Miracle Teresa (Character) - 1959
      100% 91% The Big Country Patricia Terrill (Character) - 1958
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Voice of the Big Country Unknown (Character) - 1958
      83% 81% Baby Doll Baby Doll Meighan (Character) - 1956
      88% 87% Giant Luz Benedict II (Character) $183.9K 1956
      No Score Yet 46% Easy to Love Clarice (Character) - 1953

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet 88% Roswell Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
      No Score Yet 88% Murder, She Wrote Sibella Stone (Guest Star) 1993
      82% 98% Tales From the Crypt Unknown (Character) 1991
      No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1964 1966