Carroll Baker
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Game (1997)
as Ilsa
How the West Was Won (1962)
as Eve Prescott Rawlings
Giant (1956)
as Luz Benedict II
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
as Eleanor Crisp
The Big Country (1958)
as Patricia Terrill
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
as Veronica
The Private Lesson (1975)
as Laura Formenti
So Sweet... So Perverse (1969)
as Nicole Perrier
Baba Yaga (1973)
as Baba Yaga
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife (1976)
as Laura
Star 80 (1983)
as Dorothy's Mum
Baby Doll (1956)
as Baby Doll Meighan
Heart of the Festival (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
as Deborah Wright
Ironweed (1987)
as Annie Phelan
Cyclone (1978)
as Sheila
Paranoia (1969)
as Kathryn West
Harlow (1965)
as Jean Harlow
Bad (1977)
as Hazel Aiken
Something Wild (1961)
as Mary Ann Robinson
Native Son (1986)
as Mrs. Dalton
A Quiet Place to Kill (1970)
as Helen
Valentina... The Virgin Wife (1975)
as Lucia
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
as Rina Marlowe Cord
Red Monarch (1983)
as Ellen Brown
The Body (1974)
as Madeliene
The Miracle (1959)
as Teresa
Rag and Bone (1998)
as Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
The Fourth Victim (1971)
as Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
as Helen Curtis
Captain Apache (1971)
as Maude
Station Six-Sahara (1963)
as Catherine
On Fire (1987)
as Maureen Leary
The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
as Deborah
But Not for Me (1959)
as Ellie Brown / Borden
Lionpower from MGM (1967)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mister Moses (1965)
as Julie Anderson
James Dean: The First American Teenager (1975)
as Self
Hollywood Uncensored (1987)
as Self
The Harem (1967)
as Margherita
Easy to Love (1953)
as Clarice
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)
as Gerda Hoffman
Just Your Luck (1996)
as Momie
Knife of Ice (1972)
as Martha Caldwell
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)
as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
Sylvia (1965)
as Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
A Kiss to Die For (1993)
as Mrs. Graham
Blonde Fist (1991)
as Lovell Summers
Skeletons (1997)
as Nancy Norton
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class (1995)
as Self
Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993)
as Alma List
The Devil with Seven Faces (1971)
as Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant' (1956)
as Self
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western (1997)
as Self
The Sky is Falling (1975)
as Treasure
Bridge to the Sun (1961)
as Gwen Terasaki
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)
as Self
Nowhere to Go (1998)
as Nana
Cyber Eden (1992)
as Madame
Jack of Diamonds (1967)
as Carroll Baker
The Paradise Suite (1963)
as Lena Roland
The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
as Evelyne Graffi
Men Don't Tell (1993)
as Ruth
North Shore Fish (1997)
as Arlyne
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons (1995)
as Self
In the Flesh (1995)
as Elaine Mitchelson
Gipsy Angel (1990)
as Pheobe
Another Woman's Husband (2000)
as Laurel’s mother
Memories of Giant (1998)
as Self
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King (2003)
as Self
Fun in the Big Country (1958)
as Self
Cinerama Adventure (2002)
as Self
The World Is Full of Married Men (1979)
as Linda Cooper
Dalva (1996)
as Naomi
Storie di seduzione (1995)
as Diana's Mother
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984)
as Mama Freud
Heart Full of Rain (1997)
as Edith Pearl Dockett
Blackmail Chase (1976)
as Polly Pott
Return to 'Giant' (1996)
as Self
Shattered Dreams (1976)
as Carol
The Next Victim (1975)
as Sandy Marshall
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (1996)
as Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil (2006)
as Self
La signora della città (1996)
as Martha Sheppard
What Mad Pursuit (1985)
as Louise Steinhauser
Hollywood Scandals (2011)
as Self
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood (2009)
as Self
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour (2017)
as Self