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Post by teleadm on May 28, 2021 20:18:23 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on May 28, 2021 20:44:39 GMT
Station Six Sahara --I have been wanting to watch that for a while.
I re-watched ORGASMO 1969 recently.
She has written some crime or thriller novels as well.
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Post by petrolino on May 28, 2021 20:47:39 GMT
I have to step away for two or three hours, but hopefully tonight is the night I may celebrate, for Linnea Quigley turning 63 yesterday, and for Carroll Baker turning 90 today. I hope to return later, but I'd like to say thanks so much for remembering Ms. Baker on this day!
Trivia : According to commentary tracks I've been listening to this week, Carroll Baker was a maid of honour at filmmaker Umberto Lenzi's wedding to Croatian writer Olga Pehar. Lenzi directed Baker in four movies.
Umberto Lenzi shoots Carroll Baker and Jean-Louis Trintignant on location for 'So Sweet, So Perverse' (1969)
“Life seems to be a never-ending series of survivals, doesn’t it?” On her birthday, here is the great Carroll Baker, Oscar-nominated star of Elia Kazan’s provocative masterpiece BABY DOLL, as photographed by Claude Azoulay at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.'
- Tribeca
Happy Birthday!!
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Post by spiderwort on May 28, 2021 21:07:50 GMT
Thanks for the tribute, tele. She had such an interesting and diverse career - from being a serious, Actors Studio trained actress, to becoming one of the major "sex-kittens" of the 1960s. When she made Baby Doll she was newly married to director and renowned acting teacher, Jack Garfein.  Later he directed her in Something Wild (1961).  And with him, she had two very talented children, Emmy Award winning actress Blanche Baker and Tony Award winning composer, Herschel Garfein.  With Blanche, now grown up.  In 1983 she published her memoir, not a great literary work, but worth a read because of her interesting history in a transformational period in American films.
Happy 90th Birthday, Carroll Baker.
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Post by politicidal on May 28, 2021 23:09:18 GMT
Right on! Good for her.
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Post by mattgarth on May 28, 2021 23:43:53 GMT
And she was Liz and Rock's own 'Baby Doll' in GIANT.
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Post by teleadm on May 29, 2021 0:29:20 GMT
And she was Liz and Rock's own 'Baby Doll' in GIANT. In her own words, slightly modified, "With Liz, Rock and Dean around, nobody cared about a debutante"
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Post by petrolino on May 29, 2021 2:09:56 GMT
Birthday wishes for Carroll Baker are being posted on Twitter with pictures from her movie career
Trending all night ...
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Post by petrolino on May 29, 2021 19:45:32 GMT
Carroll Baker : Actors Studio
What's My Line? - Carroll Baker (Jun 28, 1964)
"Well, you know, this is a long story. My mother and father had divorced, and I was living with my father in Pennsylvania. We didn’t have very much money. And when I graduated from high school, I was working in a factory. All my girlfriends had gone to university. The boy I was in love with went to university. And, and I said to myself, “I’m just not going to be stuck in this small town working in a factory.”
Because of my mother, I had taken dancing lessons. So when I was off work, I would go to our attic, which had a wooden floor. I used to tap, tap, tap and follow Ann Miller’s routines. So then my mother said, “Well, why don’t you come for a while and stay in Florida with me?” Well, that was terrific, because in Florida they have every conceivable club, like the Lions Club. And I got my first engagement there dancing. I earned $20. I kept getting dancing engagements and went to beauty contests.
We went to Daytona Beach and there was an International Convention of Magicians. There was this one magician, named Burling Hull and he called himself the Great Volta. So He was retired, and he didn’t have an assistant. He said, “I’m inventing acts now, and I’ve invented an act that’s just for a woman. It’s the magic jewel act.” So I went to stay with he and his wife and practiced really hard. And learned how to do this magic act. And this ties me into North Carolina! I was booked on Kemp Time, which was one of the last vestiges of vaudeville. It was a western show. Everybody famous you could think of was in it, like Elvis Presley. Virginia Mayo did her act with Pansy the Horse."
- Carroll Baker speaking in 2019, Comet Over Hollywood
Film Debut - 'Easy To Love' (1953)
Carroll Baker in Paris
The Movie Vault reviews 'Carroll Baker : The Paramount Collection'
'But Not For Me' (1959 - Walter Lang) 'Sylvia' (1965 - Gordon Douglas) 'The Carpetbaggers' (1965 - Edward Dmytryk) 'Harlow' (1965 - Gordon Douglas)
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Post by petrolino on May 29, 2021 20:19:52 GMT
Carroll Baker In Italy
'Orgasmo' ~ Piero Umiliani
Carroll Baker in Rome
Top 10 Movies
'The Harem' (1967 - Marco Ferreri) 'The Sweet Body Of Deborah' (1968 - Romolo Guerrieri)
'Orgasmo' (1969 - Umberto Lenzi)
'So Sweet So Perverse' (1969 - Umberto Lenzi)
'A Quiet Place To Kill' (1970 - Umberto Lenzi)
'Knife Of Ice' (1972 - Umberto Lenzi) 'Baba Yaga, The Devil Witch' (1973 - Corrado Farina) 'At Last, At Last' (1975 - Marino Girolami) 'The Private Lesson' (1975 - Vittorio De Disti)
'Confessions Of A Frustrated Housewife' (1976 - Andrea Bianchi)
Most want to see ... Gianfranco Piccioli's 'The Flower With The Deadly Sting' (1973) ...
Least favourite ... Osvaldo Civirani's 'The Devil With Seven Faces' (1971) ...
Unboxing 'The Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection' blu-ray set from Severin Films
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Post by cschultz2 on May 31, 2021 0:24:14 GMT
Damn--had I known that earlier, I would've sent her a card. Carroll Baker was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where I live, and lived until age eight in Johnstown's Cambria City neighborhood.
Cambria City was then and remains today a place of rich ethnic heritage, a working class neighborhood with a colorful cultural mixture. During non-Covid times thousands of tourists and visitors are drawn to cultural festivals and music and dance performances hosted by the many churches in the area. As a child, Baker attended the St. Casimir Catholic Church, located at the corner of Chestnut and Power Streets. The church still stands, although since the closure of five Catholic churches in the neighborhood during the 1990s and the consolidation of the parishes, St. Casimir's is now known as Resurrection Church.
During the 1930s through the 1970s, the Cambria City neighborhood also contained literally dozens of taverns and pubs, which remained open for business around-the-clock to accommodate all three shifts of the steel mills which loomed over the area. If you've even seen "The Deer Hunter," the wedding sequence could've been set in Cambria City...although those scenes were filmed in Clairton, about forty miles to the west.
The area which surrounds Johnstown, within a radius of about twenty-five or so miles, also figures into the backgrounds of several other motion picture personalities. James Stewart was born and raised in Indiana, about twenty-five miles to the northwest, and Charles Bronson came from Ehrenfeld, about ten miles to the north. Johnny Weissmueller called Windber his hometown, seven or eight miles south of Johnstown. I've occasionally wondered whether James Stewart and Carroll Baker ever compared notes on their shared Pennsylvania heritage while they were appearing together in 1963's "How the West was Won."
As far as I know, after she left the area at age eight when her parents' marriage foundered, Baker never returned. About ten years ago I sent her a postcard depicting the Cambria City neighborhood, but never received a response. If anyone sees Baker, please tell her we miss her.
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Post by poelzig on May 31, 2021 1:24:15 GMT
Carroll Baker In Italy
'Orgasmo' ~ Piero Umiliani
Carroll Baker in Rome
Top 10 Movies
'The Harem' (1967 - Marco Ferreri) 'The Sweet Body Of Deborah' (1968 - Romolo Guerrieri)
'Orgasmo' (1969 - Umberto Lenzi)
'So Sweet So Perverse' (1969 - Umberto Lenzi)
'A Quiet Place To Kill' (1970 - Umberto Lenzi)
'Knife Of Ice' (1972 - Umberto Lenzi) 'Baba Yaga, The Devil Witch' (1973 - Corrado Farina) 'At Last, At Last' (1975 - Marino Girolami) 'The Private Lesson' (1975 - Vittorio De Disti)
'Confessions Of A Frustrated Housewife' (1976 - Andrea Bianchi)
Most want to see ... Gianfranco Piccioli's 'The Flower With The Deadly Sting' (1973) ...
Least favourite ... Osvaldo Civirani's 'The Devil With Seven Faces' (1971) ...
Unboxing 'The Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection' blu-ray set from Severin Films
Check youtube for Flower with deadly sting. If it's not there subscribe to the giallo realm channel and request it. It's an awesome channel and the guy tries to fill requests.
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Post by poelzig on May 31, 2021 1:25:21 GMT
I've seen her is so many giallos I'm almost tired of seeing her naked.
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Post by poelzig on May 31, 2021 1:28:52 GMT
Flower with the Deadly Sting
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on May 31, 2021 12:00:15 GMT
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Post by timshelboy on Jun 18, 2021 18:51:30 GMT
belated thanks tele - I did notice her birthday in the paper so decided it was time to rewatch all her movies in chronological order!!!! a long awaited project - I'm up to here  I thought I was missing only one movie 1998s NOWHERE TO GO aka SILENT HEARTS - if anyone can point me to source for that or her RAIN for UK TV from 1970 - or indeed any of her 4 early TV credits if they still exist I'd be grateful. But now something called STORY OF SEDUCTION from 1995 has popped up on imdb ......  David thomson refers to her as " a splendidly vulgar blonde" and notes her early days as both a night club dancer and an Actors studio graduate were a mix that quite never deserted her.  . Here's my pick her best movies (chronologically) GIANT BABY DOLL THE BIG COUNTRY BUT NOT FOR ME HOW THE WEST WAS WON STATION 6 SAHARA (had no idea it was her second favourite movie - thanks for that interview1.... it had R2 release on Network a year back) THE CARPETBAGGERS SYLVIA (My favourite - natch - if Albert Zugsmith or Hugo Haas had taken over helming LAURA from Rouben Mamoulien rather than Preminger this is what we would have got - no bad thing imho) HARLOW (valueless as a biopic but an acceptable glossy trash melodrama) ORGASMO/PARANOIA A QUIET PLACE TO KILL/PARANOIA ANDY WARHOLS BAD STAR 80 THE GAME A HEART FULL OF RAIN             
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Post by timshelboy on Jun 18, 2021 19:09:00 GMT
In 1983 she published her memoir, not a great literary work, but worth a read because of her interesting history in a transformational period in American films. Yes it is an interesting read - she seemed a bit coy about her eurotrash films = omitting them from her filmography - although to be fair titles like ORGASMO and CONFESSIONS OF A FRUSTRATED HOUSEWIFE probably wouldn't get her the mainstream Hollywood top featured gigs she was looking for at the time.... 50 years later though with the release of an exclusive box set of her Lenzi work we are all now clear that the films are Art and not Trash...    She also wrote a memoir about a trip to Africa with a lover, and two novels - A ROMAN TALe - a delicious roman a clef about the Italian film industry with thinly veiled portraits of Sophia & Carlos, Marcello, Anita, Marisa Mell etc.. and a detective thriller only last year or so next in my pile.
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Post by timshelboy on Jun 18, 2021 19:23:55 GMT
Most want to see ... Gianfranco Piccioli's 'The Flower With The Deadly Sting' (1973) ...
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Post by petrolino on May 28, 2022 15:20:14 GMT
Happy Birthday Carroll Baker!! ( ... now joining the 91 club with Piper Laurie having just turned 90 earlier this year ...)
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Post by Penn Guinn on May 28, 2022 15:29:51 GMT
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