15 Facts About Barbara Baxley

Barbara Angie Rose Baxley was an American actress and singer.

Barbara Baxley acted for six years in productions of schools and Little Theaters before she had her first professional role.

Barbara Baxley had the challenging lead role in the 1960 film The Savage Eye, portraying a divorcee exploring Los Angeles, speaking in voice-over narration and dialog without delivering any directly spoken lines on screen.

Barbara Baxley appeared in Chekhov's The Three Sisters and Neil Simon's Plaza Suite as well as the 1960s Broadway musical Barbara Baxley Loves Me, which co-starred Jack Cassidy, Barbara Cook and Daniel Massey.

Barbara Baxley starred in the 1976 Broadway play Best Friend.

Barbara Baxley appeared in supporting roles in many television series of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Barbara Baxley played a wife who had her rodeo performer husband, played by Lee Van Cleef, murdered in the crime drama series Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring David Janssen.

Barbara Baxley appeared in a 1958 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Gilded Lily", as Enid Griffin and she played the role of Cora Wheeler in the original Twilight Zone episode of "Mute".

Barbara Baxley played roles on Where the Heart Is and Another World, two daytime soap operas.

Barbara Baxley further played on an episode of The Fugitive as the one-armed man's girlfriend.

Barbara Baxley appeared in six episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Barbara Baxley is perhaps better known for the role of Lady Pearl, the feisty companion of country music icon Haven Hamilton in Robert Altman's film Nashville and as the mother of Sally Field's character in Norma Rae.

Barbara Baxley was a close friend of musician Dave Brubeck and his wife; according to him, Barbara Baxley was more like a member of the family.

Barbara Baxley later confirmed that Baxley was a liberal Democrat, an atheist, a woman who always put the needs and well-being of others before her own self, and that when she died, he and his wife, Iola, not only handled her funeral arrangements but buried her in the same cemetery next to their own plots so that they all could be together as one in death, same as in life, because their bond held such a strong connection.

Barbara Baxley died at age 67 on June 7,1990, at her home in Manhattan, New York, of an apparent heart attack.