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Carroll Baker studied at the Actor’s Studio with Lee Strasberg and was at the top of the list with casting agents, producers and directors. She stumbled because her husband thought she should focus on sexier roles.
Excerpts from Baby Doll : An Autobiography by Carroll Baker. The most important scene we had together was filmed in Hollywood. It was the one in which the older Jett Rink proposes marriage to the now grown-up Luz Benedict II. We did that one scene, take after take, for three entire days! It was incredible.
Carroll Baker turns 90 today She has to be among our last living actors who was around for some of the latter days of the "Golden Age" of Hollywood. A very good actress, too.
Carroll Baker is 90 years old this year and doesn't understand the crime and seriousness of drugging and raping over 50 women. Back in the day they blocked this this of thing out and just let it go. She is a product of her time, like Bill Cosby who has still not shown any remorse.
The Carroll Baker movie, Harlow was good if historically inaccurate. She did marry that studio arranged Gay guy who was in the closet. Peter LAwford was very convincing. And I really liked Red Buttons as her agent, and a lecherous Leslie Nielsen, and Angela Landsbury, Mike Connors, Raph Vallone. It was sad though. She dies.
Carol Lynley and Raquel Welch both started in TV and didn't appear in any big blockbusters early on. Carroll Baker was in "Giant," "Baby Doll," and "How the West Was Won," but no major flops of the '60s.
The Carroll Baker "Harlow" was rushed into production to try to beat the Carol Lynley "Harlow" to the movie screens. The production schedule was cut in half, the script was incomplete and being written and re-written on the fly, first takes were often used and rushed to print, and Baker was given very little time to rehearse.
R205- Lenny Baker had to withdraw from the pre-Broadway tryout of McNally's "It's Only A Play" before it played Philadelphia, where it closed. The critics HATED it. The "official" story back then was cancer of the throat caused by his inexperience as a singer in "A Love My Wife", which is the lousiest cover story I'd ever heard.
Carroll Baker wrote that preparing for filming, the makeup department kept trying to make her look like other stars... Sandra Dee, Dorothy Malone, etc. Finally she said, “I’m playing Elizabeth Taylor’s daughter.
Too bad she never got around to writing a memoir. [quote]1973: Sue meets Gary "Cotton" Adamson at the Colorado State Penitentiary, where he was currently serving time for murder and robbery(20-40 years).She worked as a cocktail waitress and lived in a hotel in Denver nearby.