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American actress (1923–1985)

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Anne Baxter was an American actress who had a career in film and television from the 1940s through the 1980s. She is remembered as a notable performer of Hollywood's mid-twentieth century era, though specific details about her most significant roles or achievements would require additional sources to accurately convey.

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  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Farmhouse Favourites
  • Matthew Connection
  • Woman's work
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Country
US
Active from
1922-03-14
Active to
1996-01-15

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Total plays
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  • Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.
  • Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it.
  • Acting is not what I do. It's what I am. It's my permanent, built-in cathedral.
  • I loved that one because Greg Peck usually was so stolid in his pictures. Billy made him relax more than usual. He was playing an outlaw and I was shacked up in this ghost town with my pa and the outlaws are trying to smoke us out. Well, there's one line where I remark about his body odor and Greg tried to get it removed, saying it might undermine his box office appeal among girls. And Billy just chuckled and kept on shooting.
  • I can report was twice as acerbic in person than on camera as Addison Dewitt. He was just plain nasty to poor Marilyn Monroe, who was always quaking in her boots. He'd pat her on the rump and say, "You almost got through that two-line speech, my dear. Shall we try again?"

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1923-00-00
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1986-12-12
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Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. She won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and seven Photoplay Awards, and was nominated for an Emmy and two Laurel Awards.

A granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, Baxter studied acting with Maria Ouspenskaya and had some stage experience before making her film debut in 20 Mule Team (1940). She became a contract player of 20th Century-Fox and was loaned to RKO Pictures for the role of Lucy Morgan in Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). She was the leading lady in Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo (1943). In 1947, she won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sophie MacDonald in The Razor's Edge (1946).

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