Carroll Baker
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1931-05-28
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Biografía
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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Filmografía
The Making of the Greatest Story Ever Told
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
Hollywood Skandale
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Baby Doll: See No Evil
The Lyon's Den
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Aventura en Cinerama
Histoires de festival
El marido de otra mujer
Roswell
Memories of Giant
Nowhere to Go
Rag and Bone
Heart Full of Rain
The Game
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Esqueletos
North Shore Fish
Just Your Luck
Return to 'Giant'
E! True Hollywood Story
Ambición sin límites
Dalva
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Storie di seduzione
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Medidas desesperadas
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Chicago Hope
A Kiss to Die For
Men Don't Tell
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Jackpot
Blonde Fist
Contacto en California
Poli de guardería
Gipsy Angel
Grand
Historias de la cripta
Tallo de hierro
Hollywood Uncensored
On Fire
Native Son
La ley de Los Ángeles
What Mad Pursuit
Hitler S.S.: El Retrato del Mal
Se ha escrito un crimen
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Sharing Time
Star 80
El monarca rojo
American Playhouse
Nobody's Perfect
Los ojos del bosque
The World Is Full of Married Men
Ciclón
Bad
Zerschossene Träume
La mujer de mi padre
Ab morgen sind wir reich und ehrlich
Las flores del vicio
Lecciones privadas
James Dean: The First American Teenager
The Next Victim
La esposa virgen
El cuerpo
La flor de pétalos de acero
Baba Yaga (Magia negra)
Thriller
Detrás del silencio
El diablo tiene siete caras
Capitán Apache
La última señora Anderson
Una droga llamada Helen
Así de dulce, así de maravillosa
W. Somerset Maugham
Orgasmo
El dulce cuerpo de Deborah
Jack of Diamonds
L'Harem
Lionpower from MGM
Harlow, la rubia platino
El aventurero de Kenya
La historia más grande jamás contada
Sylvia
El gran combate
Los insaciables
The Paradise Suite
Station Six-Sahara
La conquista del Oeste
The Merv Griffin Show
Algo salvaje
The Mike Douglas Show
Puente al sol
Promesa rota
No soy para ti
Horizontes de grandeza
Fun in the Big Country
Baby Doll
Gigante
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Armchair Theatre
Cinépanorama
Fácil de amar
The Oscars
What's My Line?