Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker 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.

The Game

7.6

Kindergarten Cop

6.1

Tales from the Crypt

8.0

Giant

7.6

Roswell

7.7

How the West Was Won

7.0

Murder, She Wrote

7.5

The Big Country

7.6

The Greatest Story Ever Told

6.4

The Watcher in the Woods

5.9

Cheyenne Autumn

6.7

Ironweed

6.3

Star 80

6.5

Baby Doll

7.1

E! True Hollywood Story

8.1

Chicago Hope

7.2

L.A. Law

7.1

Baba Yaga

5.5

The Oscars

6.9

Bad

6.4

Knife of Ice

6.1

Paranoia

5.9

A Quiet Place to Kill

6.5

So Sweet... So Perverse

5.6

The Carpetbaggers

5.8

Something Wild

6.2

Captain Apache

4.6

Cyclone

5.0

What's My Line?

6.8

Valentina... The Virgin Wife

5.1

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

6.5

Station Six-Sahara

5.9

Harlow

5.4

The Sweet Body of Deborah

5.4

The Devil with Seven Faces

4.7

The Private Lesson

5.3

The Fourth Victim

6.1

Bridge to the Sun

6.8

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

8.5

Native Son

5.6

Cinerama Adventure

7.6

Thriller

6.6

Red Monarch

5.0

Skeletons

4.5

The Body

4.4

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

4.5

Hollywood Uncensored

5.5

Sylvia

6.2

But Not for Me

6.0

The Harem

5.5

Men Don't Tell

6.4

Another Woman's Husband

3.8

The Miracle

6.7

Blonde Fist

4.6

Bloodbath

4.1

Easy to Love

6.1

The Mike Douglas Show

5.1

The Flower with Petals of Steel

5.5

A Kiss to Die For

4.4

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

4.0

Cyber Eden

5.6

Jack of Diamonds

4.2

Return to 'Giant'

6.1

P.S. I Luv U

5.8

Dalva

3.3

The World Is Full of Married Men

5.3

Rag and Bone

3.3

Just Your Luck

4.3

The Lyon's Den

9.3

Judgment Day: The John List Story

4.5

Mister Moses

4.0

Gipsy Angel

3.5

Heart Full of Rain

4.0

Cinépanorama

8.0

Grand

5.5

Shattered Dreams

8.0

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

6.0

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

5.0

James Dean: The First American Teenager

6.0

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

6.0

Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

0.0

Hollywood Scandals

0.0

Storie di seduzione

0.0

Fun in the Big Country

0.0

Nowhere to Go

0.0

Blackmail Chase

0.0

On Fire

0.0

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

0.0

The Paradise Suite

0.0

What Mad Pursuit

0.0

In the Flesh

0.0

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

0.0

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

0.0

North Shore Fish

0.0

La signora della città

0.0

Baby Doll: See No Evil

0.0

The Next Victim

0.0

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

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