Carroll Baker

Acting · 2.0 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: May 28, 1931
From: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Works

88 films

The Game

19977.6

Giant

19567.6

How the West Was Won

19627.0

Kindergarten Cop

19906.1

The Big Country

19587.6

The Private Lesson

19755.4

The Greatest Story Ever Told

19656.4

Cyclone

19785.2

Bad

19776.5

Cheyenne Autumn

19646.7

The Watcher in the Woods

19805.9

Star 80

19836.4

Ironweed

19876.3

Baby Doll

19567.0

Heart of the Festival

20026.5

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

19766.2

Easy to Love

19536.1

Hollywood Uncensored

19875.4

Valentina... The Virgin Wife

19755.2

But Not for Me

19596.3

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

19854.9

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

19957.7

Blonde Fist

19914.6

The Carpetbaggers

19645.9

Native Son

19865.3

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

20088.5

North Shore Fish

19979.0

Shattered Dreams

19767.5

Captain Apache

19714.7

Baba Yaga

19735.5

Paranoia

19695.9

Something Wild

19616.2

Mister Moses

19655.0

So Sweet... So Perverse

19695.6

The Sweet Body of Deborah

19685.6

Station Six-Sahara

19635.9

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

19844.6

Red Monarch

19835.4

The Miracle

19596.7

Dalva

19964.0

Another Woman's Husband

20004.0

Harlow

19655.6

The World Is Full of Married Men

19795.0

Lionpower from MGM

19676.3

Judgment Day: The John List Story

19935.7

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

20039.0

The Fourth Victim

19716.0

A Quiet Place to Kill

19706.6

Skeletons

19974.2

Storie di seduzione

19954.0

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

19977.0

What Mad Pursuit

198510.0

Knife of Ice

19726.1

The Devil with Seven Faces

19714.8

Cyber Eden

19925.3

The Harem

19675.5

Fun in the Big Country

1958

Sylvia

19656.3

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

19969.0

Rag and Bone

19984.0

Just Your Luck

19964.8

The Flower with Petals of Steel

19735.4

In the Flesh

19959.0

Heart Full of Rain

19975.3

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

19955.0

The Body

19744.8

Blackmail Chase

19769.0

Cinerama Adventure

20027.7

Gipsy Angel

19904.5

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

19566.0

Jack of Diamonds

19675.0

Nowhere to Go

19987.0

A Kiss to Die For

19934.6

James Dean: The First American Teenager

19757.5

Bridge to the Sun

19616.9

The Next Victim

19758.0

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

2009

The Sky is Falling

19754.7

Men Don't Tell

19936.9

Return to 'Giant'

19966.7

On Fire

19879.0

The Paradise Suite

1963

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

19949.0

Hollywood Scandals

2011

Baby Doll: See No Evil

2006

Memories of Giant

1998

La signora della città

199610.0

Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

2017