Carroll Baker

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.

Filmography (104 Appearances)

Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

Hollywood Scandals

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Baby Doll: See No Evil

The Lyon's Den

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

Cinerama Adventure

Heart of the Festival

Another Woman's Husband

Roswell

Memories of Giant

Nowhere to Go

Rag and Bone

Heart Full of Rain

The Game

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

Skeletons

North Shore Fish

Just Your Luck

Return to 'Giant'

E! True Hollywood Story

La signora della città

Dalva

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

Storie di seduzione

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

In the Flesh

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Chicago Hope

A Kiss to Die For

Men Don't Tell

Judgment Day: The John List Story

Cyber Eden

Blonde Fist

P.S. I Luv U

Kindergarten Cop

Gipsy Angel

Grand

Tales from the Crypt

Ironweed

Hollywood Uncensored

On Fire

Native Son

L.A. Law

What Mad Pursuit

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Murder, She Wrote

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

Star 80

Red Monarch

The Watcher in the Woods

The World Is Full of Married Men

Cyclone

Bad

Shattered Dreams

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

Blackmail Chase

The Sky is Falling

The Private Lesson

James Dean: The First American Teenager

The Next Victim

Valentina... The Virgin Wife

The Body

The Flower with Petals of Steel

Baba Yaga

Thriller

Knife of Ice

The Devil with Seven Faces

Captain Apache

The Fourth Victim

A Quiet Place to Kill

So Sweet... So Perverse

Paranoia

The Sweet Body of Deborah

Jack of Diamonds

The Harem

Lionpower from MGM

Harlow

Mister Moses

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Sylvia

Cheyenne Autumn

The Carpetbaggers

The Paradise Suite

Station Six-Sahara

How the West Was Won

The Merv Griffin Show

Something Wild

The Mike Douglas Show

Bridge to the Sun

The Miracle

But Not for Me

The Big Country

Fun in the Big Country

Baby Doll

Giant

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

Armchair Theatre

Cinépanorama

Easy to Love

The Oscars

What's My Line?

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