Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker
Carroll Bakeris a former American film, stage, and television actress. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Baker's range of roles from naive ingenues to brash and flamboyant women established her as both a serious dramatic actress and a blonde bombshell. While performing on Broadway in 1954, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in Tennessee Williams's Baby Doll. Her role in the film as a sexually-repressed Southern bride lent Baker overnight notoriety and earned her BAFTA and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth28 May 1931
CityJohnstown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.
The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it.
Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.
After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'
I was very young when I saw 'Gone With the Wind,' but I fell in love with Clark Gable. And when I got to work with him, I couldn't believe it. I still had a crush on him. He was quite an old man by then; he must have seen that I was head over heels, even though I was married.