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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2017
Hollywood Scandals
Character:Self
Release Date:02/04/2011
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:21/03/2009
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Character:Self
Release Date:15/05/2008
Baby Doll: See No Evil
Character:Self
Release Date:02/05/2006
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2003
Cinerama Adventure
Character:Self
Release Date:30/08/2002
Another Woman's Husband
Character:Laurel’s mother
Release Date:06/03/2000
Memories of Giant
Character:
Release Date:06/05/1998
Nowhere to Go
Character:Nana
Release Date:09/03/1998
Rag and Bone
Character:Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
Release Date:01/01/1998
Heart Full of Rain
Character:Edith Pearl Dockett
Release Date:05/10/1997
The Game
Character:Ilsa
Release Date:12/09/1997
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Character:Self
Release Date:27/07/1997
Skeletons
Character:Nancy Norton
Release Date:04/04/1997
North Shore Fish
Character:Arlyne
Release Date:20/02/1997
Just Your Luck
Character:Momie
Release Date:29/11/1996
Return to 'Giant'
Character:Self
Release Date:21/09/1996
La signora della città
Character:Martha Sheppard
Release Date:04/06/1996
Dalva
Character:Naomi
Release Date:03/03/1996
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Character:Self
Release Date:04/02/1996
Storie di seduzione
Character:Diana's Mother
Release Date:12/12/1995
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Character:Self
Release Date:16/11/1995
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Character:Self
Release Date:20/03/1995
In the Flesh
Character:Elaine Mitchelson
Release Date:01/01/1995
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Character:Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
Release Date:19/12/1994
A Kiss to Die For
Character:Mrs. Graham
Release Date:06/12/1993
Men Don't Tell
Character:Ruth
Release Date:14/03/1993
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Character:Alma List
Release Date:23/02/1993
Cyber Eden
Character:Madame
Release Date:23/12/1992
Blonde Fist
Character:Lovell Summers
Release Date:01/11/1991
Kindergarten Cop
Character:Eleanor Crisp
Release Date:21/12/1990
Gipsy Angel
Character:Pheobe
Release Date:03/06/1990
Ironweed
Character:Annie Phelan
Release Date:18/12/1987
Hollywood Uncensored
Character:Self
Release Date:01/12/1987
On Fire
Character:Maureen Leary
Release Date:05/01/1987
Native Son
Character:Mrs. Dalton
Release Date:24/12/1986
What Mad Pursuit
Character:Louise Steinhauser
Release Date:24/11/1985
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Character:Gerda Hoffman
Release Date:17/02/1985
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Character:Mama Freud
Release Date:01/01/1984
Star 80
Character:Dorothy's Mum
Release Date:10/11/1983
Red Monarch
Character:Ellen Brown
Release Date:16/06/1983
The Watcher in the Woods
Character:Helen Curtis
Release Date:17/04/1980
The World Is Full of Married Men
Character:Linda Cooper
Release Date:03/06/1979
Cyclone
Character:Sheila
Release Date:21/07/1978
Bad
Character:Hazel Aiken
Release Date:04/05/1977
Shattered Dreams
Character:Carol
Release Date:27/08/1976
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
Character:Laura
Release Date:04/08/1976
Blackmail Chase
Character:Polly Pott
Release Date:02/04/1976
The Sky is Falling
Character:Treasure
Release Date:29/11/1975
The Private Lesson
Character:Laura Formenti
Release Date:03/11/1975
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Character:Self
Release Date:30/09/1975
The Next Victim
Character:Sandy Marshall
Release Date:23/09/1975
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Character:Lucia
Release Date:06/06/1975
The Body
Character:Madeliene
Release Date:06/03/1974
The Flower with Petals of Steel
Character:Evelyne Graffi
Release Date:13/11/1973
Baba Yaga
Character:Baba Yaga
Release Date:20/09/1973
Knife of Ice
Character:Martha Caldwell
Release Date:24/08/1972
The Devil with Seven Faces
Character:Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Release Date:09/12/1971
Captain Apache
Character:Maude
Release Date:27/10/1971
The Fourth Victim
Character:Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
Release Date:10/03/1971
A Quiet Place to Kill
Character:Helen
Release Date:20/02/1970
So Sweet... So Perverse
Character:Nicole Perrier
Release Date:31/10/1969
Paranoia
Character:Kathryn West
Release Date:07/02/1969
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Character:Deborah
Release Date:20/03/1968
Jack of Diamonds
Character:Carroll Baker
Release Date:10/11/1967
The Harem
Character:Margherita
Release Date:06/10/1967
Lionpower from MGM
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:01/01/1967
Harlow
Character:Jean Harlow
Release Date:23/06/1965
Mister Moses
Character:Julie Anderson
Release Date:12/05/1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Character:Veronica
Release Date:09/04/1965
Sylvia
Character:Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Release Date:10/02/1965
Cheyenne Autumn
Character:Deborah Wright
Release Date:15/10/1964
The Carpetbaggers
Character:Rina Marlowe Cord
Release Date:08/04/1964
The Paradise Suite
Character:Lena Roland
Release Date:24/02/1963
Station Six-Sahara
Character:Catherine
Release Date:11/01/1963
How the West Was Won
Character:Eve Prescott Rawlings
Release Date:02/11/1962
Something Wild
Character:Mary Ann Robinson
Release Date:23/12/1961
Bridge to the Sun
Character:Gwen Terasaki
Release Date:17/10/1961
The Miracle
Character:Teresa
Release Date:12/11/1959
But Not for Me
Character:Ellie Brown / Borden
Release Date:19/08/1959
The Big Country
Character:Patricia Terrill
Release Date:30/09/1958
Fun in the Big Country
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1958
Baby Doll
Character:Baby Doll Meighan
Release Date:29/12/1956
Giant
Character:Luz Benedict II
Release Date:08/11/1956
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Character:Self
Release Date:09/10/1956
Easy to Love
Character:Clarice
Release Date:26/11/1953
Television Appearances
The Lyon's Den
Character:Jack's Mother
Roswell
Character:Claudia Parker
E! True Hollywood Story
Character:
Chicago Hope
Character:Sylvie Tannen
P.S. I Luv U
Character:Victoria
Grand
Character:Viva
Tales from the Crypt
Character:Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
L.A. Law
Character:Rae Morrison
Murder, She Wrote
Character:Sibella Stone
Thriller
Character:Sandy Marshall
The Merv Griffin Show
Character:Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Character:Self
Cinépanorama
Character:Self
The Oscars
Character:Self
What's My Line?
Character:Self - Mystery Guest
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