Carroll Baker
Acting
- Nascimento:
- 1931-05-28
- Local de nascimento:
- Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Biografia
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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Filmografia
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
Cinerama Adventure
Histoires de festival
Another Woman's Husband
Arquivo Roswell
Memories of Giant
Nowhere to Go
Rag and Bone
Heart Full of Rain
Vidas em Jogo
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Skeletons
North Shore Fish
Just Your Luck
Return to 'Giant'
E! True Hollywood Story
La signora della città
Dalva
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Storie di seduzione
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Im Sog des Bösen
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
P.S. I Luv U
Um Tira no Jardim de Infância
Gipsy Angel
Grand
Contos da Cripta
Ironweed
Hollywood Uncensored
On Fire
Herança de Sangue
L.A. Law
What Mad Pursuit
A Polícia de Hitler: Um Retrato do Mal
Assassinato Por Escrito
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Sharing Time
Star 80
Red Monarch
American Playhouse
Nobody's Perfect
Olhos na Floresta
The World Is Full of Married Men
Ciclone
Bad
Zerschossene Träume
La moglie di mio padre
Ab morgen sind wir reich und ehrlich
Las flores del vicio
Lezioni private
James Dean: The First American Teenager
The Next Victim
La moglie vergine
Il corpo
Il fiore dai petali d'acciaio
Baba Yaga - A Bruxa Maldita
Thriller
Il coltello di ghiaccio
O Diabo das Sete Faces
Capitão Apache
La última señora Anderson
Paranoia
Così dolce... così perversa
W. Somerset Maugham
Orgasmo
O Doce Corpo de Deborah
Valete de Ouros
L'Harem
Lionpower from MGM
Harlow: A Vênus Platinada
Mister Moses
A Maior História de Todos os Tempos
Sylvia
Crepúsculo de Uma Raça
Os Insaciáveis
The Paradise Suite
Station Six-Sahara
A Conquista do Oeste
The Merv Griffin Show
Quando a Vida é Cruel
The Mike Douglas Show
Bridge to the Sun
O Milagre
Beijos Que Não Se Esquecem
Da Terra Nascem os Homens
Fun in the Big Country
Boneca de Carne
Assim Caminha a Humanidade
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Armchair Theatre
Cinépanorama
Fácil de Amar
Oscars
What's My Line?