42 Facts About Anne Baxter

Anne Baxter was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series.

Anne Baxter won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and two Laurel Awards, and was nominated for an Emmy.

Anne Baxter 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.

Anne Baxter was the leading lady in Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo.

Anne Baxter worked with several of Hollywood's greatest directors, including Alfred Hitchcock in I Confess, Fritz Lang in The Blue Gardenia, and Cecil B DeMille in The Ten Commandments, for which she won her second Laurel Award for Topliner Female Dramatic Performance.

Anne Baxter was raised in Westchester County, New York and attended The Brearley School.

At age 10, Anne Baxter attended a Broadway play starring Helen Hayes where she was so impressed she declared to her family she wanted to become an actress.

In 1939, she was cast as Katharine Hepburn's younger sister in the play The Philadelphia Story, although Hepburn did not like Anne Baxter's acting style, and Anne Baxter was replaced during the show's pre-Broadway run.

At 16, Anne Baxter screen-tested for the role of Mrs DeWinter in Rebecca.

Anne Baxter chose to sign a contract with Fox because of their higher salary.

Anne Baxter worked with John Barrymore in her next film The Great Profile and appeared as the ingenue in the Jack Benny vehicle Charley's Aunt.

Anne Baxter received star billing in Swamp Water and The Pied Piper, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Anne Baxter was loaned to RKO to appear in director Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons.

Anne Baxter was Tyrone Power's leading lady in Crash Dive, her first Technicolor film.

Anne Baxter became a popular star in World War II dramas and received top billing in The North Star, The Sullivans, The Eve of St Mark, and Sunday Dinner for a Soldier, co-starring her future husband John Hodiak.

Anne Baxter was loaned to United Artists for the leading role in the film noir Guest in the House, and appeared in A Royal Scandal, with Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Coburn; Smoky, with Fred MacMurray; and Angel on My Shoulder, with Paul Muni and Claude Rains.

Anne Baxter co-starred with Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney in 1946's The Razor's Edge, for which she won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Anne Baxter was loaned to Paramount for a top-billed role opposite William Holden in Blaze of Noon and to MGM for a supporting role as Clark Gable's wife in Homecoming.

In 1950, Anne Baxter was chosen to co-star in All About Eve largely because of a resemblance to Claudette Colbert, who originally was cast but dropped out and was replaced by Bette Davis.

Anne Baxter received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the title role of Eve Harrington.

Anne Baxter was top-billed in the western The Outcasts of Poker Flat, with Dale Robertson.

Anne Baxter's final acting assignments at Fox were My Wife's Best Friend, with MacDonald Carey, and a segment in O Henry's Full House, which featured an ensemble cast.

In 1953, Anne Baxter contracted a two-picture deal for Warner Brothers.

Anne Baxter's first was opposite Montgomery Clift in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess; the second was the Fritz Lang whodunit The Blue Gardenia, in which she played a woman accused of murder.

Anne Baxter traveled to Germany to star in a drama film titled Carnival Story.

Anne Baxter was directed by her publicist and boyfriend, Russell Birdwell, in the independent film noir The Come On, co-starring Sterling Hayden as her leading man.

Anne Baxter's co-stars included Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as Rameses.

Anne Baxter's scenes were shot on Paramount's sound stages in 1955, and she attended the film's New York and Los Angeles premieres in November 1956.

Anne Baxter was reteamed with Heston in Paramount's Three Violent People, co-starring Gilbert Roland and Tom Tryon.

Anne Baxter travelled to Australia to make Summer of the Seventeenth Doll playing a part originally intended for Rita Hayworth.

In 1960, Anne Baxter received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6741 Hollywood Boulevard.

Anne Baxter played the role of Dixie Lee in the 1960 film adaptation of Edna Ferber's 1930 novel Cimarron.

Anne Baxter appeared as another villain, Olga, Queen of the Cossacks, opposite Vincent Price's Egghead in three episodes of the show's third season.

Anne Baxter played an old flame of Raymond Burr on his crime series Ironside.

Anne Baxter made a guest appearance on My Three Sons season 8 episode 10, aired on November 4,1967, called "Designing Woman", portraying a glamorous female engineer who wanted Steve Douglas as a love interest and possible future husband.

Anne Baxter returned to Broadway during the 1970s in Applause, the musical version of All About Eve, but this time as Margo Channing.

Anne Baxter portrayed a murderous film star on an episode of Columbo, titled "Requiem for a Falling Star".

In 1983, Anne Baxter starred in the television series Hotel, replacing her All About Eve costar Bette Davis after the latter became ill.

Anne Baxter married actor John Hodiak on July 7,1946, at her parents' home in Burlingame, California.

In 1960, Anne Baxter married a second time to Randolph Galt, an American owner of a cattle station at Gloucester near Sydney where she was filming Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.

In 1976, Anne Baxter recounted her courtship with Galt in a well-received book called Intermission.

Anne Baxter had a stroke on December 4,1985, while hailing a taxi on Madison Avenue in New York City.