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
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.
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.
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.'
When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.