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Born May 28, 1931 - American actress and sex symbol.
After graduating from high school, she studied for a year in college, and then was a magician's assistant for a while. Her film career started in 1953 with a small role in the film Easy to Love. In the same year, she married Louis Ritter, whose marriage broke up a few months later. After completing training at the renowned New York Actors Studio, she appeared on Broadway in the production of "It's a Long Summer." There she was noticed by director Elia Kazan and invited to his scandalous film "Doll", written by Tennessee Williams. The role of Meagan the Doll, the young woman who is to become the wife of a balding middle-aged man played by Karl Malden, earned her fame, as well as nominations for the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTAs. In the same year, she appeared opposite Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean in the film Giant, which later received several Oscars .
While studying at an acting studio, she met director Jack Garfine, whom she married in 1955. Garfine was Jewish, and for his sake Baker converted to Judaism. This marriage brought her two children: daughter Blanche Baker, who, like her mother, became an actress, and her son, composer Harshel Garfine, and ended in divorce in 1969.
Over the next two decades, Baker continued to actively act in films, appearing in many famous films, including "How the West Was Won" (1962), "Harem" (1967), "Deborah's Gentle Hands" (1968), "Captain Apache" (1971) and many others. In 1964, Carroll Baker landed a role in the movie "Mr. Moses", which was filmed in East Africa. At the end of filming, there were reports that the leader of one of the Maasai tribes submitted to the beauty of the actress and was ready to give 150 cows, 200 goats and sheep for her hand, as well as $ 750 to boot. A new wave of popularity overtook the actress after the release of the biopic "Harlow", which tells the story of the sex symbol of the 1930s Jean Harlow, in which Baker played the main role. The film grossed $ 13,000,000 and became a major hit in 1965. This picture also served as the beginning of a short romance between the actress and the film's producer Joseph Levin. After problems with the management of Paramount Pictures and a divorce from her second husband, Carroll left the United States and moved to Europe for several years, where she originally settled in Italy. Over the years there she starred in several films in Italy itself, as well as in Germany, Spain and the UK. In the late 1970s, Baker returned to her homeland, where she resumed her career in film, as well as on the theater stage. She could not repeat the previous success on the big screen, and the actress was content with small secondary roles in film and television. Among her works of those years, the most notable roles were the roles in the films "Star-80" (1983), "Thistle" (1987) and "Kindergarten Policeman" (1990). In 1997, she appeared in The Game starring Michael Douglas.
In 1978, the actress married for the third time, to British actor Donald Burton, with whom she was together until his death from emphysema in 2007. Carroll Baker is the author of three books: The Doll: An Autobiography, published in 1983, and A Roman Story and To Africa with Love, both available in 1985. For her contribution to cinema, the actress was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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