Carroll Baker
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican actress (born 1931)
Carroll Baker is a retired American actress. 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.
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Photos 9
Baker in a publicity photo for Baby Doll by Peter Basch in 1956
Baker with Gregory Peck in The Big Country in 1958
Baker in the Broadway production of Come on Strong in September 1962
Baker in her role as Jean Harlow on the cover of the November 2, 1963, edition of The Saturday Evening Post
Baker in Il dolce corpo di Deborah (1968)
Baker with Perry King in Andy Warhol's Bad in 1977
Baker entertaining the US soldiers fighting at the Vietnam War in 1965In their own words 2
Life seems to be a never-ending series of survivals, doesn't it?
Quoted in Balloon, Rachel. Breathing Life Into Your Characters (2003), p. 135
Joe Levine behaved like he owned me. My husband thought it was all terrific as long as I kept bringing in the money. I started objecting to everything, but it was too late.
On her tumultuous relationship with producer Joe Levine, profile in the Los Angeles Times by Patricia Brennan (1987)
Filmography 40
The Game
Kindergarten Cop
Giant
How the West Was Won
The Big Country
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Ironweed
Star 80
The Watcher in the Woods
Cheyenne Autumn
Baby Doll
Baba Yaga
Bad
Paranoia
A Quiet Place to Kill
The Carpetbaggers
So Sweet... So Perverse
Knife of Ice
The Private Lesson
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
Something Wild
Captain Apache
Cyclone
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Harlow
Station Six-Sahara
Native Son
The Devil with Seven Faces
The Fourth Victim
Bridge to the Sun
Skeletons
The Harem
Red Monarch
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Another Woman's Husband
The Body
The Miracle
Cinerama Adventure105 credits on file
Television 17
Murder, She Wrote
The Mike Douglas Show
Chicago Hope
What's My Line?
L.A. Law
Tales from the Crypt
The Merv Griffin Show
Roswell
The Oscars
Thriller
E! True Hollywood Story
Cinépanorama
The Lyon's Den
Grand
P.S. I Luv U
Armchair TheatreAwards 3
In their orbit 3
Connected to Carroll 6
About this person
Carroll Baker is a retired American actress. 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. Her role in the film as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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