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Anne Baxter(1923-1985)

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Anne Baxter, 1956.
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Anne Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana, on May 7, 1923. She was the daughter of a salesman, Kenneth Stuart Baxter, and his wife, Catherine Dorothy (Wright), who herself was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, the world-renowned architect. Anne was a young girl of 11 when her parents moved to New York City, which at that time was still the hub of the entertainment industry even though the film colony was moving west. The move there encouraged her to consider acting as a vocation. By the time she was 13 she had already appeared in a stage production of 'Seen but Not Heard'", and had garnered rave reviews from the tough Broadway critics. The play helped her gain entrance to an exclusive acting school.

In 1937, Anne made her first foray into Hollywood to test the waters there in the film industry. As she was thought to be too young for a film career, she packed her bags and returned to the New York stage with her mother, where she continued to act on Broadway and summer stock up and down the East Coast. Undaunted by the failure of her previous effort to crack Hollywood, Anne returned to California two years later to try again. This time her luck was somewhat better. She took a screen test which was ultimately seen by the moguls of Twentieth Century-Fox, and she was signed to a seven-year contract. However, before she could make a movie with Fox, Anne was loaned out to MGM to make 20 Mule Team (1940). At only 17 years of age, she was already in the kind of pictures that other starlets would have had to slave for years as an extra before landing a meaty role. Back at Fox, that same year, Anne played Mary Maxwell in The Great Profile (1940), which was a box-office dud. The following year she played Amy Spettigue in the remake of Charley's Aunt (1941). It still wasn't a great role, but it was better than a bit part. The only other film job Anne appeared in that year was in Swamp Water (1941). It was the first role that was really worth anything, but critics weren't that impressed with Anne, her role nor the movie. In 1942 Anne played Joseph Cotten's daughter, Lucy Morgan, in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). The following year she appeared in The North Star (1943), the first film where she received top billing. The film was a critical and financial success and Anne came in for her share of critical plaudits. Guest in the House (1944) the next year was a dismal failure, but Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) was received much better by the public, though it was ripped apart by the critics. Anne starred with John Hodiak, who would become her first husband in 1947 (Anne was to divorce Hodiak in 1954. Her other two husbands were Randolph Galt and David Klee).

In 1946 Anne portrayed Sophie MacDonald in The Razor's Edge (1946), a film that would land her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She had come a long way in so short a time, but for her next two films she was just the narrator: Mother Wore Tights (1947) and Blaze of Noon (1947). It would be 1950 before she landed another decent role--the part of Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950). This film garnered Anne her second nomination, but she lost the Oscar to Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950). After several films through the 1950s, Anne landed what many considered a plum role--Queen Nefretiri in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956). Never in her Hollywood career did Anne look as beautiful as she did as the Egyptian queen, opposite Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. After that epic, job offers got fewer because she wasn't tied to a studio, instead opting to freelance her talents. After no appearances in 1958, she made one film in 1959 Season of Passion (1959) and one in 1960 Cimarron (1960).

After Walk on the Wild Side (1962), she took a hiatus from filming for the next four years. She was hardly idle, though. She appeared often on stage and on television. She wasn't particularly concerned with being a celebrity or a personality; she was more concerned with being just an actress and trying hard to produce the best performance she was capable of. After several notable TV appearances, Anne became a staple of two television series, East of Eden (1981) and Hotel (1983). Her final moment before the public eye was as Irene Adler in the TV film Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984). On December 12, 1985, Anne died of a stroke in New York. She was 62.
BornMay 7, 1923
DiedDecember 12, 1985(62)
BornMay 7, 1923
DiedDecember 12, 1985(62)
IMDbProStarmeterTop 5,0001193
  • Won 1 Oscar
    • 5 wins & 5 nominations total

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Anne Baxter and Louis Jourdan in Ritual of Evil (1970)
Natalie Wood and Anne Baxter in One Desire (1955)
Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, and Norman Leavitt in The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Anne Baxter and Richard Conte in The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Anne Baxter, Ann Sothern, and Ray Walker in The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Anne Baxter, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell, and Ann Sothern in The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments (1956)
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, and Gary Merrill in All About Eve (1950)
Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, and Hugh Marlowe in All About Eve (1950)
Anne Baxter in O. Henry's Full House (1952)
Anne Baxter in O. Henry's Full House (1952)
Anne Baxter in O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Known for:

Poster for 50th anniversary rerelease, 1 sheet movie poster app. 27" x 40"
All About Eve
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  • Eve
  • 1950
Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Baxter, Yul Brynner, John Carradine, Yvonne De Carlo, John Derek, and Vincent Price in The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Ten Commandments
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  • Nefretiri
  • 1956
The Razor's Edge (1946)
The Razor's Edge
7.3
  • Sophie MacDonald
  • 1946
Anne Baxter, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Dolores Costello, and Tim Holt in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons
7.6
  • Lucy Morgan
  • 1942

Credits

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Actress

  • Anne Baxter, James Brolin, and Connie Sellecca in Hotel (1983)
    Hotel
    • Victoria Cabot
    • TV Series
    • 1983–1986
  • Fred Grandy, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Gavin MacLeod, and Lauren Tewes in The Love Boat (1977)
    The Love Boat
    • Helen Williams
    • Priscilla Crawford
    • TV Series
    • 1981–1985
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984)
    Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death
    • Irene Adler
    • TV Movie
    • 1984
  • East of Eden (1981)
    East of Eden
    • Faye
    • TV Mini Series
    • 1981
  • Anne Baxter and Robert Powell in Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
    Jane Austen in Manhattan
    • Lilliana
    • 1980
  • Chad Everett in Hagen (1980)
    Hagen
    • Claudette Gideon
    • TV Series
    • 1980
  • Thayer David and Tom Mason in Nero Wolfe (1979)
    Nero Wolfe
    • Mrs. Rachael Bruner
    • TV Movie
    • 1979
  • Little Mo (1978)
    Little Mo
    • Jessamyn Connolly
    • TV Movie
    • 1978
  • Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976)
    Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers
    • Edwina Dorsey
    • TV Mini Series
    • 1976
  • Mike Connors in Mannix (1967)
    Mannix
    • Victoria Page
    • TV Series
    • 1973
  • Lisa, Bright and Dark (1973)
    Lisa, Bright and Dark
    • Margaret Schilling
    • TV Movie
    • 1973
  • George Peppard in Banacek (1972)
    Banacek
    • Leslie Lyle
    • TV Series
    • 1973
  • Love Story (1973)
    Love Story
    • Elaine McKinley
    • TV Series
    • 1973
  • Cannon (1971)
    Cannon
    • Mayor Helen Blyth
    • TV Series
    • 1973
  • Peter Falk in Columbo (1971)
    Columbo
    • Nora Chandler
    • TV Series
    • 1973

Soundtrack

  • The Name of the Game (1968)
    The Name of the Game
    • performer: "Sister Faith's Song"
    • TV Series
    • 1970
  • Bedevilled (1955)
    Bedevilled
    • performer: "Embrasse (Hold Me Close)" (Embrasse-Moi Bien)
    • 1955
  • Anne Baxter and Dan Dailey in You're My Everything (1949)
    You're My Everything
    • performer: "You Oughta Be in Pictures" (uncredited)
    • 1949
  • Anne Baxter, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Dolores Costello, and Tim Holt in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    • performer: "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" (1892) (uncredited)
    • 1942

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O. Henry's Full House Official Trailer
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O. Henry's Full House Official Trailer
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The Ten Commandments
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The Ten Commandments
Three Violent People
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Three Violent People
Bedevilled
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Bedevilled
The Ten Commandments: Blu-Ray Release
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The Ten Commandments: Blu-Ray Release
Yellow Sky
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Yellow Sky
The Ten Commandments (1956)
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The Ten Commandments (1956)
I Confess
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I Confess

Personal details

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  • Height
    • 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
  • Born
    • May 7, 1923
    • Michigan City, Indiana, USA
  • Died
    • December 12, 1985
    • New York City, New York, USA(brain aneurysm)
  • Spouses
      David Gutman KleeJanuary 30, 1977 - October 15, 1977 (his death)
  • Children
      Katrina Hodiak
  • Parents
      Kenneth Stuart Baxter
  • Relatives
    • Frank Lloyd Wright(Grandparent)
  • Other works
    Print ads: Chesterfield cigarettes.
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Biographical Movie
    • 2 Print Biographies
    • 1 Interview
    • 6 Articles
    • 1 Pictorial
    • 5 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Was walking down Madison Avenue in New York City when she suffered her fatal brain aneurysm in 1985.
  • Quotes
    [on All About Eve (1950)] I patterned Eve [Harrington] after the understudy I had in a Broadway play when I was 13. She actually threatened to finish me off. She was the bitchiest person I ever saw.
  • Trademarks
      Heavy-lidded hazel eyes
  • Nickname
    • Annie

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