Died 1985-12-12.
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Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. She won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and seven Photoplay Awards, and was nominated for an Emmy and two Laurel Awards.
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entertainment · American actress (1923–1985) · stage actor · film actor · television actor · writer · actor · also Anne Baxter, Baxter
Born 7 May 1923 · Died 12 December 1985 · Q228906
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1985· 5 entries
While hailing a taxi on Madison Avenue in New York City
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“Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.”
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“Acting is not what I do. It's what I am. It's my permanent, built-in cathedral.”
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“Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it.”
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1983· 1 entry
Baxter starred in the television series Hotel, replacing her All About Eve costar Bette Davis after the latter became ill
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1977· 1 entry
Baxter married David Klee, a stockbroker
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1976· 2 entries
In 1976, Baxter recounted her courtship with Galt (whom she called "Ran") in a well-received book called Intermission.
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Baxter recounted her courtship with Galt (whom she called "Ran") in a well-received book called Intermission
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1971· 2 entries
“Outspoken Anne Baxter Tells It Like It Really Is”
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Had a role in Fools' Parade as an aging prostitute
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1967· 1 entry
Called "Designing Woman", portraying a glamorous female engineer who wanted Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) as a love interest and possible future husband
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1960· 3 entries
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960).
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Baxter married a second time to Randolph Galt, an American owner of a cattle station at Gloucester, New South Wales where she was filming Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
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Baxter received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6741 Hollywood Boulevard
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1955· 1 entry
And she attended the film's New York and Los Angeles premieres in November 1956
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1953· 1 entry
Baxter contracted a two-picture deal for Warner Brothers
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1950· 1 entry
Baxter was chosen to co-star in All About Eve largely because of a resemblance to Claudette Colbert, who originally was cast, with the idea to have Baxter's character gradually come to mirror Colbert's over the course of
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1947· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Razor's Edge (1947).
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Won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sophie MacDonald in The Razor's Edge (1946)
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1946· 2 entries
At her parents' home in Burlingame, California
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for The Razor's Edge (1946).
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1943· 1 entry
Played a French maid in a North African hotel (with a French accent) in Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo, a Paramount production
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1940· 1 entry
Was loaned to MGM for her first film 20 Mule Team, in which she was billed fourth after Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, and Marjorie Rambeau
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1939· 1 entry
Was cast as Katharine Hepburn's younger sister in the play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn did not like Baxter's acting style so Baxter was replaced during the show's pre-Broadway run
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-05-07.
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