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Anne Baxter
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7 May 1923 - 12 December 1985
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Anne Baxter was born on May 7, 1923 in Michigan, Indiana, to merchant Kenneth Stuart Baxter. Her mother, Catherine Dorothy, was the daughter of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. When Anne was 11 years old, her parents moved to New York, where she soon began to take lessons with the Russian actress Maria Uspenskaya, who had once played at the Moscow Art Theatre for Stanislavsky, and two years later made her Broadway debut in the play Visible, but Unheard. The success of the play and favorable
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Anne Baxter was born on May 7, 1923 in Michigan, Indiana, to merchant Kenneth Stuart Baxter. Her mother, Catherine Dorothy, was the daughter of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. When Anne was 11 years old, her parents moved to New York, where she soon began to take lessons with the Russian actress Maria Uspenskaya, who had once played at the Moscow Art Theatre for Stanislavsky, and two years later made her Broadway debut in the play Visible, but Unheard. The success of the play and favorable reviews of critics allowed her to enter a privileged acting school.
She continued to play on Broadway until she signed a contract with XX Century Fox at the age of seventeen. However, her first picture was a minor western of the Metro Goldwyn Meyer film studio, A Team of Twenty Mules (1940, dir. Richard Thorpe). At that time, Anne Baxter did not stand out against the background of numerous Hollywood starlets and a real breakthrough she managed to make only in 1942, when after several minor films she played Lucy Morgan in the family saga "The Magnificent Ambersons" Orson Welles. The appearance of the actress was the best suited for the role of ingenue and on the screen Baxter, as a rule, played touching and naive girls, causing sympathy from the viewer. After "Embersons" she made a number of notable acting work, and in 1947 for the role of Sophie Macdonald in the melodrama "All About Eve" (1946, dir. Edmund Goulding) was awarded the "Oscar" as the best supporting actress.
The highest achievement of Anne Baxter was the satirical drama Joseph Leo Mankiewicz "All About Eve" (1950), in which she played an insidious careerist, novice actress Eva Harrington, rubbing the trust in the scene of aging star Bethractress (Chance). Together with Bette Davis, her partner in this film, she was nominated for an Oscar in the nomination “Best Actress in a Leading Role”, but none of them ever received the award that went to Judy Holliday for the film “Born Yesterday”. Despite the success, since the mid-fifties, the actress was almost not offered good roles and she had to star in passing films. Among the few exceptions are Ruth Granforth in the not-so-successful thriller Alfred Hitchcock "I Confess" (1953) and the brilliant role of Queen Nefertiti in the adaptation of the biblical legends "The Ten Commandments" (1956) directed by Cecil DeMille.
After filming in the film "Walk on the Wild Side" (1962, directed by Edward Dmitrick), Anne Baxter left Hollywood for several years and settled in Australia. She returned to cinema a few years later, however, no longer in the status of a star, and as an ordinary actress. She rarely acted in films, focusing mainly on theatrical performances and work in television. She toured with Hume Cronin and his wife Jessica Tandy and replaced Lauren Bacall in Applause (the stage version of All About Eve) as Margot Channing, once played by Bette Davis. In 1976, she released an autobiographical book, “An Intervention: A True Story.”In the eighties, the actress constantly appeared in the television series East of Paradise and Hotel, and in 1983 she starred in a documentary dedicated to her grandfather, “Portrait of the Artist: Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright.” She was also active in charities in Los Angeles. Anne Baxter died on December 12, 1985 in New York and was buried in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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