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Carroll Baker

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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.

Filmografía 46

Gigante 1956Película como Luz Benedict II
La conquista del oeste 1962Película como Eve Prescott Rawlings
Baby Doll 1956Película como Baby Doll Meighan
Bad 1977Película como Hazel Aiken
Star 80 1983Película como Dorothy's Mum
No soy para ti 1959Película como Ellie Brown / Borden
Orgasmo 1969Película Bloodstream como Kathryn West
Los insaciables 1964Película como Rina Marlowe Cord
Algo salvaje 1961Película como Mary Ann Robinson
El diablo tiene siete caras 1971Película como Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Blonde Fist 1991Película como Lovell Summers
Rag and Bone 1998Película como Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
La última señora Anderson 1971Película como Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
Sylvia 1965Película como Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
On Fire 1987Película como Maureen Leary