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Carroll Baker

Ironweed

The Devil Has 7 Faces

Cheyenne Autumn

Baby Doll

Private Lessons [25th Anniversary Edition]

Dalva

Bad

Cyclone

Born: 05/28/1931 Johnstown, PA

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Biography: The daughter of a traveling salesman, actress Carroll Baker joined a dance company after one year of college, then worked as a magician's assistant. After a brief marriage to a furrier, she went to Hollywood to act, but was unable to get anything more than a bit role (in 1953's Easy to Love) and so left for New York. At first finding work only in commercials (plus a walk-on in the Broadway play Escapade), in 1954 she enrolled at the Actors Studio; there she met director Jack Garfein, whom she married the following year (they were divorced in 1969). After her appearance in a few TV dramas and Robert Anderson's play All Summer Long (1955), she was noticed by Warner scouts and subsequently cast in James Dean's vehicle Giant (1956). Her success continued that same year when her role as the thumb-sucking wife in Baby Doll (1956) earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She also delivered an exemplary lead performance in director Irving Rapper's The Miracle (1959). With the success of Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood started looking for other Monroe "types" and producers began grooming Baker for the role, as is evident from her work in such films as The Carpetbaggers (1964); in 1965, she played the doomed title role in the film Harlow, another attempt to cast her in the Monroe mold. However, she never caught on with American audiences; in the late 60s, she moved to Italy and began appearing in Italian productions. In 1977 she made her London stage debut in W. Somerset Maugham's Rain, then made a few Hollywood and UK pictures in the late 70s and 80s, as well as putting in a "camp" appearance in Andy Warhol's Bad (1977) and a more straightlaced role as the mother of Dorothy Stratten in {#Star 80). ~ All Movie Guide

DVDs that Carroll Baker appeared in...

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03/24/2009 - My Fathers Wife
02/24/2009 - Ironweed
08/28/2007 - The Devil Has 7 Faces
02/13/2007 - Cheyenne Autumn
05/02/2006 - Baby Doll
02/07/2006 - Private Lessons [25th Anniversary Edition]
01/31/2006 - Dalva
10/25/2005 - Bad
07/12/2005 - Cyclone
02/24/2004 - Kiss Me, Kill Me [Collector's Edition]

Awards

1956	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (nominee)	Golden Globe	Baby Doll
1956	New Star of the Year - Female (winner)	Golden Globe
1956	Best Actress (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Baby Doll