- Born
- Height1.65 m
- Carroll Baker was born on May 28, 1931 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a traveling salesman, William W. Baker. She attended community college for a year and then worked as a dancer and magician's assistant. After a brief marriage, she had a small part in Désir d'amour (1953), did TV commercials, and had a bit part on Broadway. She studied at the Actors Studio and was married to director Jack Garfein (one daughter, Blanche Baker). Warner Brothers, sensing a future Marilyn Monroe, cast her in Géant (1956), La Poupée de chair (1956) (Oscar nomination for her thumb-sucking role), Les Ambitieux (1964) and Harlow, la blonde platine (1965) (title role). Moving to Italy, she made films there and in England, Germany, Mexico and Spain . After returning to American films, she married Donald Burton in 1982 and resided in Hampstead, London in the 1980s. They remained together until Burton's death from emphysema in their home in Cathedral City, California in 2007.- IMDb mini biography by: Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
- SpousesDonald Burton(March 10, 1982 - December 8, 2007) (his death)Jack Garfein(April 3, 1955 - August 13, 1969) (divorced, 2 children)Louie Ritter(January 1953 - August 1953) (divorced)
- Children
- ParentsWilliam Watson BakerVirginia Duffy
- Often plays brash, flamboyant women
- Light blonde hair
- Sparkling blue eyes
- Seductive deep voice
- After she refused to play a nymphomaniac in the trashy Une femme marquée (1958), Warner Bros. refused to loan her out to appear opposite Laurence Olivier, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in Au fil de l'épée (1959).
- Her trouble with Warner Bros. continued after she declined to act in a series of movies based on books by pulp writer Erskine Caldwell. This led to her losing out on outside offers to do Les trois visages d'Eve (1957) for 20th Century-Fox, and both La Chatte sur un toit brûlant (1958) and Les Frères Karamazov (1958) for MGM.
- Despite playing the daughter of Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor in Géant (1956), she was just nine years younger than Hudson and nine months older than Taylor.
- Spent several years--from the late 1990s to 2007--caring for her third husband, who suffered from emphysema. She remained retired from acting since being widowed in 2007.
- Following the death of Debbie Reynolds in December 2016, she is - as of July 2025 - one of two surviving cast member of the 24 credited actors in the epic Western La Conquête de l'Ouest (1962). The other surviving cast member is Russ Tamblyn.
- When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.
- Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.
- After La Poupée de chair (1956) I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from "Baby Doll".
- I was very young when I saw Autant en emporte le vent (1939), 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.
- The big one I missed out on was La Chatte sur un toit brûlant (1958). MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it.
- Le harem (1975) - $60,000 + 50% of U.S. gross
- Harlow, la blonde platine (1965) - $200,000
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