Carroll Baker

Known For: Acting
Born: May 28, 1931
Place of Birth: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

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 overseei…

Filmography

Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour

2017 · Self

Hollywood Scandals

Hollywood Scandals

2011 · Self

Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood

2009 · Self

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

2008 · Self

Baby Doll: See No Evil

2006 · Self

The Lyon's Den

2003 · Jack's Mother

Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King

2003 · Self

Cinerama Adventure

2002 · Self

Heart of the Festival

2002 · Self (archive footage)

Another Woman's Husband

2000 · Laurel’s mother

Roswell

1999 · Claudia Parker

Memories of Giant

1998 · Self

Nowhere to Go

1998 · Nana

Rag and Bone

1998 · Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt

Heart Full of Rain

1997 · Edith Pearl Dockett

The Game

1997 · Ilsa

Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

1997 · Self

Skeletons

1997 · Nancy Norton

North Shore Fish

1997 · Arlyne

Just Your Luck

1996 · Momie

Return to 'Giant'

1996 · Self

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

La signora della città

1996 · Martha Sheppard

Dalva

1996 · Naomi

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

1996 · Self

Storie di seduzione

1995 · Diana's Mother

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

1995 · Self

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

1995 · Self

In the Flesh

1995 · Elaine Mitchelson

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

1994 · Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)

Chicago Hope

1994 · Sylvie Tannen

A Kiss to Die For

1993 · Mrs. Graham

Men Don't Tell

1993 · Ruth

Judgment Day: The John List Story

1993 · Alma List

Cyber Eden

1992 · Madame

Blonde Fist

1991 · Lovell Summers

P.S. I Luv U

1991 · Victoria

Kindergarten Cop

1990 · Eleanor Crisp

Gipsy Angel

1990 · Pheobe

Grand

1990 · Viva

Tales from the Crypt

1989 · Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")

Ironweed

1987 · Annie Phelan

Hollywood Uncensored

1987 · Self

On Fire

1987 · Maureen Leary

Native Son

1986 · Mrs. Dalton

L.A. Law

1986 · Rae Morrison

What Mad Pursuit

1985 · Louise Steinhauser

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

1985 · Gerda Hoffman

Murder, She Wrote

1984 · Sibella Stone

The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud

1984 · Mama Freud

Sharing Time

1984 · Fran Haley

Star 80

1983 · Dorothy's Mum

Red Monarch

1983 · Ellen Brown

American Playhouse

1982 · Mrs. Dalton

The Watcher in the Woods

1980 · Helen Curtis

The World Is Full of Married Men

1979 · Linda Cooper

Cyclone

1978 · Sheila

Bad

1977 · Hazel Aiken

Shattered Dreams

1976 · Carol

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

1976 · Laura

Blackmail Chase

1976 · Polly Pott

The Sky is Falling

1975 · Treasure

The Private Lesson

1975 · Laura Formenti

James Dean: The First American Teenager

1975 · Self

The Next Victim

1975 · Sandy Marshall

Valentina... The Virgin Wife

1975 · Lucia

The Body

1974 · Madeliene

The Flower with Petals of Steel

1973 · Evelyne Graffi

Baba Yaga

1973 · Baba Yaga

Thriller

1973 · Sandy Marshall

Knife of Ice

1972 · Martha Caldwell

The Devil with Seven Faces

1971 · Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison

Captain Apache

1971 · Maude

The Fourth Victim

1971 · Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin

A Quiet Place to Kill

1970 · Helen

So Sweet... So Perverse

1969 · Nicole Perrier

W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham

1969 · Sadie Thompson

Paranoia

1969 · Kathryn West

The Sweet Body of Deborah

1968 · Deborah

Jack of Diamonds

1967 · Carroll Baker

The Harem

1967 · Margherita

Lionpower from MGM

1967 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harlow

1965 · Jean Harlow

Mister Moses

1965 · Julie Anderson

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965 · Veronica

Sylvia

1965 · Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)

Cheyenne Autumn

1964 · Deborah Wright

The Carpetbaggers

1964 · Rina Marlowe Cord

The Paradise Suite

The Paradise Suite

1963 · Lena Roland

Station Six-Sahara

1963 · Catherine

How the West Was Won

1962 · Eve Prescott Rawlings

The Merv Griffin Show

1962 · Self

Something Wild

1961 · Mary Ann Robinson

The Mike Douglas Show

1961 · Self

Bridge to the Sun

1961 · Gwen Terasaki

The Miracle

1959 · Teresa

But Not for Me

1959 · Ellie Brown / Borden

The Big Country

1958 · Patricia Terrill

Fun in the Big Country

1958 · Self

Baby Doll

1956 · Baby Doll Meighan

Giant

1956 · Luz Benedict II

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

1956 · Self

Armchair Theatre

1956 · Lena Roland

Cinépanorama

1956 · Self

Easy to Love

1953 · Clarice

The Oscars

1953 · Self

What's My Line?

1950 · Self - Mystery Guest

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