Carroll Baker
Acting
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: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
as Self
Age 85 (now 95)
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
as Self
Age 77 (now 95)
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
Age 76 (now 95)
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
as Self
Age 71 (now 95)
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
as Self
Age 66 (now 95)
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
as Self
Age 64 (now 95)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
Age 63 (now 95)
Judgment Day: The John List Story
as Alma List
Age 61 (now 95)
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
as Gerda Hoffman
Age 53 (now 95)
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
as Mama Freud
Age 52 (now 95)
The World Is Full of Married Men
as Linda Cooper
Age 48 (now 95)
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
as Laura
Age 45 (now 95)
James Dean: The First American Teenager
as Self
Age 44 (now 95)
The Flower with Petals of Steel
as Evelyne Graffi
Age 42 (now 95)
The Devil with Seven Faces
as Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Age 40 (now 95)
Lionpower from MGM
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 35 (now 95)
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
as Self
Age 25 (now 95)
Tales from the Crypt
as Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
Age 58 (now 95)
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Also Known As
Carrol Baker, Karolina Piekarski, کارول بیکر
IMDB
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