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BAXTER, Anne



Nationality: American. Born: Michigan City, Indiana, 7 May 1923. Education: Attended Theodora Irvine's School of Theatre, 193436; Lenox School, 193738; Brearly School, 193839; studied acting with Maria Ouspenskaya, 193640. Family: Married 1) the actor John Hodiak, 1946 (divorced 1953), daughter: Katrina; 2) Randolph Galt, 1960 (divorced 1970), daughters: Melissa Ann and Maginel; 3) David Klee, 1977 (died 1977). Career: 1936Broadway debut in Seen but Not Heard ; 1940film debut in 20 Mule Team ; 1957TV debut as guest star on General Electric Theater ; appeared in numerous TV productions over remainder of life; 1961moved with husband to cattle station in the Australian outback where she lived for several years; 196970in TV series Marcus Welby ; 1971return to Broadway in Applause, musical version of All about Eve, taking over role of Margo Channing from Lauren Bacall; 1976in TV miniseries The Moneychangers, and East of Eden, 1982; 1982final stage appearance as Queen Gertrude in Hamlet, American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut; 198385in TV series Hotel. Awards: Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, for The Razor's Edge, 1946. Died: Of stroke, in New York City, 12 December 1985.


Films as Actress:

1940

20 Mule Team (Thorpe) (as Jean Johnson); The Great Profile (Walter Lang) (as Mary Maxwell)

1941

Charley's Aunt (Charley's American Aunt ) (Mayo) (as Amy Spettigue); Swamp Water (The Man Who Came Back )(Renoir) (as Julie)

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) (as Lucy Morgan);The Pied Piper (Pichel) (as Nicole Rougeron)

1943

Crash Dive (Mayo) (as Jean Hewlett); Five Graves to Cairo (Wilder) (as Mouche); The North Star (Armored Attack )(Milestone) (as Marina)

1944

The Eve of St. Mark (Stahl) (as Janet Feller); Guest in the House (Brahm) (as Evelyn Heath); The Sullivans (The Fighting Sullivans ) (Lloyd Bacon) (as Katherine Mary);Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (Lloyd Bacon) (as Tessa Osborne); The Purple Heart (Milestone) (as voice)

1945

A Royal Scandal (Czarina ) (Preminger) (as Countess Anna Jaschikoff)

1946

Smoky (Louis King) (as Julie Richards); Angel on My Shoulder (Mayo) (as Barbara Foster); The Razor's Edge (Edmund Goulding) (as Sophie MacDonald)

1947

Mother Wore Tights (Walter Lang) (as narrator); Blaze of Noon (Farrow) (as Lucille Stewart)

1948

Homecoming (LeRoy) (as Penny Johnson); The Luck of the Irish (Koster) (as Nora); The Walls of Jericho (Stahl) (as Julia Norman); Yellow Sky (Wellman) (as Mike)

1949

You're My Everything (Walter Lang) (as Hannah Adams)

1950

A Ticket to Tomahawk (Sale) (as Kit Dodge Jr.); All about Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz) (as Eve Harrington)

1951

Follow the Sun (Lanfield) (as Valerie Hogan)

1952

Screen Snapshots No. 206 ; My Wife's Best Friend (Sale) (as Virginia Mason); "The Last Leaf" ep. of O. Henry's Full House (Full House ) (Negulesco) (as Joanna); The Outcasts of Poker Flat (Joseph M. Newman) (as Cal)

1953

I Confess (Hitchcock) (as Ruth Grandfort); The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang) (as Norah Larkin)

1954

Carnival Story (Neumann) (as Willie)

1955

Bedevilled (Leisen) (as Monica Johnson); One Desire (Jerry Hopper) (as Tacey Cromwell); The Spoilers (Hibbs) (as Cherry Malotte)

1956

The Come-On (Birdwell) (as Rita Kendrick); The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille) (as Princess Nefretiri);Three Violent People (Maté) (as Lorna Hunter Saunders)

1958

Chase a Crooked Shadow (Anderson) (as Kimberley)

1960

Cimarron (Anthony Mann) (as Dixie)

1961

Season of Passion (Summer of the 17th Doll ) (Norman)(as Olive)

1962

Mix Me a Person (Norman) (as Dr. Anne Dyson); Walk on the Wild Side (Dmytryk) (as Teresina Vidarverri)

1965

The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis) (cameo)

1966

Frauen, die durch die Hölle gehen (The Tall Women ; Donna alla frontiera ; Sette donne per una strage ) (Grooper or Zehetgruber, Parolini, and Pink) (as Mary Ann)

1967

The Busy Body (Castle) (as Margo Foster); Stranger on the Run (Siegelfor TV) (as Valvera Johnson)

1968

Companions in Nightmare (Norman Lloydfor TV) (as Carlotta Mauridge)

1969

Marcus Welby, M.D. (Richfor TV) (as Myra Sherwood)

1970

The Challengers (Martinsonfor TV, produced in 1968)(as Stephanie York); Ritual of Evil (Dayfor TV) (as Jolene Wiley)

1971

Fools' Parade (Dynamite Man from Glory Jail ) (McLaglen)(as Cleo); If Tomorrow Comes (McCowanfor TV) (as Miss Cramer); The Late Liz (Dick Ross) (as Liz Addams Hatch)

1972

Lapin 360 (Lewisunreleased); The Catcher (Minerfor TV) (as Kate)

1973

Lisa, Bright and Dark (Swarcfor TV) (as Margaret Schilling)

1978

Little Mo (Webbfor TV) (as Jess Connolly)

1979

Nero Wolfe (Gilroyfor TV) (as Rachel Bruner)

1980

Jane Austen in Manhattan (Ivory) (as Liliana Zorska)

1983

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (Grigordoc) (as narrator)

1984

Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (Masks of Death )(Roy Ward Bakerfor TV)

Publications


By BAXTER: book


Intermission: A True Story, New York, 1976.


On BAXTER: books

Parish, James Robert, The Fox Girls, New Rochelle, New York, 1971.

Fowler, Karin J., Anne Baxter: A Bio-Bibliography, New York, 1991.

On BAXTER: articles

"All about Anne Baxter," in Photoplay (New York), September 1943.

Graham, Sheila, "As You Were, Annie," in Photoplay (New York), April 1953.

Pollock, L., "Between Heaven and H . . .," in Photoplay (New York), April and May 1957.

Current Biography 1972, New York, 1972.

Bawden, J., "Anne Baxter," in Films in Review (New York), October 1977.

Ciné Revue (Paris), 19 March 1981.

Photoplay (London), November 1981 and November 1984.

Obituary in New York Times, 13 December 1985.

Obituary in Variety (New York), 18 December 1985.


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Given the creative legacy of Anne Baxter's familyshe was Frank Lloyd Wright's granddaughterher artistic accomplishments were scripted from childhood. She was from the age of ten determined to become an actress after seeing a stage production starring Helen Hayes in New York; her aspirations were encouraged by her parents and grandfather.

There was an air of duplicity about Baxter that she and her directors used to diverse effect throughout her career. Her steely-eyed, intelligent beauty was composed of elements disparate enough to hint at complex or contradictory aspects of a character. Few of Baxter's roles were straightforward interpretations; her characters, more often than not, play other characters. The masks that Baxter's women wear may depict treachery (All about Eve ), mental unbalance (Guest in the House ), or a rugged, no nonsense exterior that disguises a vulnerable, tentative personality (Yellow Sky ). Many of Hollywood's best directors found Baxter a surprisingly intense performer and she did first-rate work for Hitchcock, Welles, Wellman, Edmund Goulding, Negulesco, Milestone, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Without establishing a dominant screen persona, she made several good films from the time she was only a teenager. At the age of 16 she tested for the title role in Hitchcock's Rebecca, but her youth prevented her from being cast; she had to settle for an ingenue part in 20 Mule Team. From the beginning, though, her assignments and her performances were varied and interesting; she was earnest in The Great Profile, earthy in Swamp Water, and a coquette in Charley's Aunt. The Magnificent Ambersons gave her the best role of her early career and her performance is subtle and thoughtfully shaded. She won an Academy Award for her tragic dipsomaniac in The Razor's Edge and was again nominated for her Eve Harrington in All about Eve, which she played, as The New York Times put it, with "an icy calm."

Her career peaked sooner than seems just. While she continued to give good, sometimes inspired performances in I Confess, O. Henry's Full House (in Negulesco's "The Last Leaf" episode), The Blue Gardenia, and The Ten Commandments, eventually she found herself slogging through forgettable programmers. Walk on the Wild Side and Fools' Parade gave her a few shining moments, but she soon had to turn to television and the stage for sustenance. In 1971, she took over Lauren Bacall's role of Margo Channing in Applause, a stage musical based on All about Eve, and found herself in the intriguing position of playing the established star at odds with the young upstart, Eve, whom Baxter herself had played so memorably on film.

Though she never achieved the status of superstar, she did achieve longevity, diversity, and popularity throughout a very stable career. In her final role, Baxter portrayed Victoria Cabot on the television series Hotel from 1983 until her death, caused by a massive stroke in 1985.


Frank Thompson, updated by Kelly Otter

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