Carroll Baker
Biography
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.
Acting (83 movies)
Kindergarten Cop
1990
Giant
1956
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
The Game
1997
The Watcher in the Woods
1980
Star 80
1983
How the West Was Won
1962
The Big Country
1958
Baby Doll
1956
Ironweed
1987
Knife of Ice
1972
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
Cyclone
1978
The Fourth Victim
1971
The Carpetbaggers
1964
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017
Paranoia
1969
Bad
1977
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
Something Wild
1961
Storie di seduzione
1995
Baba Yaga
1973
The Devil with Seven Faces
1971
Sylvia
1965
Red Monarch
1983
Fun in the Big Country
1958
But Not for Me
1959
The Harem
1967
Captain Apache
1971
A Quiet Place to Kill
1970
Native Son
1986
Cyber Eden
1992
Jack of Diamonds
1967
A Kiss to Die For
1993
Men Don't Tell
1993
The Miracle
1959
Bridge to the Sun
1961
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
1975
Station Six-Sahara
1963
Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993
Blonde Fist
1991
Cinerama Adventure
2002
Mister Moses
1965
The Sky is Falling
1975
The Private Lesson
1975
Blackmail Chase
1976
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976
Dalva
1996
Shattered Dreams
1976
On Fire
1987
Skeletons
1997
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
1995
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003
The World Is Full of Married Men
1979
Gipsy Angel
1990
What Mad Pursuit
1985
Harlow
1965
The Body
1974
In the Flesh
1995
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
Rag and Bone
1998
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
1984
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
Another Woman's Husband
2000
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
Return to 'Giant'
1996
Just Your Luck
1996
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009
Easy to Love
1953
So Sweet... So Perverse
1969
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968
The Flower with Petals of Steel
1973
North Shore Fish
1997
La signora della città
1996
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006
The Next Victim
1975
Heart Full of Rain
1997
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
Lionpower from MGM
1967
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