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 Anne BaxterBirthday: 7 May 1923 Below is a complete filmography (list of movies she's appeared in) for Anne Baxter. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@spybee.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.
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Biography
Anne Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana on May 7, 1923. She
was the daughter of a salesman and his wife, Catherine, the
daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, the famous architect. Anne was a
young girl of 11 when her parents moved to New York City, still the
hub of the entertainment industry even though the film colony was
moving west. The move there encouraged her to consider acting as a
vocation. By the time she was 13, she had already appeared in a
stage production which had garnered rave reviews from the tough
Broadway critics. The play helped her gain entrance to an exclusive
acting school. In 1937, Anne made her first foray into Hollywood to
test the waters there in the film industry. As she was thought to
be too young for a film career, she packed her bags and returned to
the New York with her mother, where she continued to act in
Broadway and summer stock up and down the East Coast. Not
undaunted, Anne returned to California two years later to try
again. This time her luck was somewhat better. She took a screen
test which was ultimately seen by the moguls of Twentieth
Century-Fox and signed to a seven year contract. However, before
she would make a movie with Fox, Anne was loaned out to MGM to make
a film entitled TWENTY MULE TEAM (1940). At 17, she was in pictures
where other starlets would slave for years as an extra before
landing a meaty role. Back at Fox, that same year, Anne played Mary
Maxwell in THE GREAT PROFILE. The film was a box-office dud. The
following year she played Amy Spettigue in the re-make of CHARLEY'S
AUNT. It still wasn't a great role, but it was better than a bit
part. The only other film Anne appeared in that year was SWAMP
WATER. It was the first role that was really worth anything, but
the critics weren't that impressed with the role that Anne had nor
with the movie. In 1942, Anne played Joseph Cotten's daughter, Lucy
Morgan, in THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. The following year Anne
appeared in THE NORTH STAR, the first film where she received top
billing. Anne and the film itself was highly praised. 1944's GUEST
IN THE HOUSE was a dismal failure, but SUNDAY DINNER FOR A SOLDIER
that same year was received much better by the public but ripped
apart by the critics. Anne starred with John Hodiak who would
become her first husband in 1947. (Anne was to divorce Hodiak in
1953. Her other two husbands were Randolph Galt and David Klee). In
1946, Anne portrayed Sophie MacDonald in THE RAZOR'S EDGE, a film
which would land her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She had come a long way in so short a time. Her next two were let
downs by comparison. One was as the narrator for MOTHER WORE TIGHTS
and 1947's BLAZE OF NOON. It wouldn't be until 1950 before she
landed another decent role. The film was as Eve Harrington in ALL
ABOUT EVE. This film garnered Anne her second nomination but
ultimately lost to Judy Holliday in BORN YESTERDAY. After several
films through the 1950's, Anne landed a super plum role. She played
Nefretiri in Cecil B. DeMille's THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Never in her
Hollywood career did Anne look as beautiful as she did as the
Egyptian queen, opposite Charlton Heston and Yul Brenner. After
that epic motion picture, the films came fewer mainly because she
wasn't tied to a studio instead opting to free-lance her talents.
After no appearances in 1958, she made one film in 1959 (SUMMER OF
THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL) and one in 1960 (CIMARRON). After WALK ON THE
WILD SIDE in 1962. She took a hiatus from filming for the next four
years. That was to say she was idle during that time. She appeared
in the stage and occasionally television. She wasn't really
concerned with being a celebrity or a personality, Anne was more
concerned with being just an actress and trying hard to produce the
best performance she was capable of making. After several notable
TV appearances, Anne became a staple of two television series, EAST
OF EDEN and HOTEL. Her final moment before the public eye was as
Irene Adler in the TV movie, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MASKS OF DEATH
(1984). On December 12, 1985, Anne died of a stroke in New York.
She was 62.
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