Background
Baxter, Anne was born on May 7, 1923 in Michigan City, Indiana, United States. She was a daughter of Kenneth Stuart and Catherine (Wright) Baxter, the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Baxter, Anne was born on May 7, 1923 in Michigan City, Indiana, United States. She was a daughter of Kenneth Stuart and Catherine (Wright) Baxter, the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Studied at public schools: Theodora's Irvine's School of the Theater, White Plains, Chappaqua and Bronxville (New York ), 1936; The Lenox School, 1937; The Brearley School, 1939; Studio School 20th Century Fox, 1940.
She made her stage debut at age twelve in Seen But Not Heard, and her movie debut in Twenty Mule Team (40, Richard Thorpe). After testing unsuccessfully for Rebecca (at age sixteen!), she had her first hit in The Great Profile (40, Walter Lang) and was contracted by Fox. Without ever establishing a dominant screen persona, she made a string of good films and seldom appeared other than intelligent and attractive: capable at the age of nineteen of playing the “Goodbye, George scene in The Magnificent Ambersons (42, Orson Welles); and was credibly a match for Bette Davis as the sweetlv conniving Eve Harrington in All About Eve (50, Joseph L. Manldewicz).
Her other films include Charley's Aunt (41, Archie Mayo); Swamp Water (4L [ean Renoir); The Pied Piper (42, Irving Pichel); Five Graves to Cairo (43, Billy Wilder); The North Star (43, Lewis Milestone); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (44, Lloyd Bacon); The Sullivans (44, Bacon); Guest in the House (44, John Brahm); The Eve of St. Mark (44, John M. Stahl); A Royal Scandal (45, Otto Preminger and Ernst Lubitsch); Angel on Mi/ Shoulder (46, Mayo); Blaze of Noon (47. John Farrow); The Walls of Jericho (48, Stahl); Yellow Sky (48, William Wellman); Homecoming (48, Mervyn Le Rov); You're My Everything (49, Lang); as golfer Ben Hogan's wife in Follow the Sun (51, Sidney Lanfield); The Outcasts of Poker Flats (52, Joseph Newman); the “Last Leaf” episode of O. Henry’s Full House (52. Jean Neg- ulesco); I Confess (52, Alfred Hitchcock); Tlie Blue Gardenia (52, Fritz Lang); Carnival Story (54, Kurt Neumann); Bedevilled (55, Mitchell Leisen); The Ten Commandments (56, Cecil B. De Mille); Three Violent People (57, Rudolph Maté); Chase a Crooked Shadow (58, Michael Anderson); Slimmer of the Seventeenth Doll (60, Leslie Norman); Cimarron (61, Anthony Mann); and Walk on the Wild Side (62, Edward Dmytryk).
After that, she made fewer films and too many wasteful TV appearances: The Bust/ Body (66, William Castle), and Dynamite Man from Glory Iail (71, Andrew V. McLaglen). But when Lauren Bacall left the American production of Applause, it was the original Eve who took her part as Margo Channing—one of life’s braver attempts to match art.
Her 1976 autobiography. Intermission, was far better and funnier than most books of its kind, partly because it makes clear how important it was to her to be married to an American who ranched in Australia.
She played in Jane Austen in Manhattan (80, James Ivory); she was in the TV production ol East of Eden (81, Harvey Hart); she narrated a documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright (Murray Grigor); and just before her death she appeared in Sherlock Holmes anil the Masks of Death (84, Rov Ward Baker).
Married John Hodiak, July 7, 1946. 1 child, Katrina; married Randolph Galt, February 18, 1960. Children: Melissa, Maginel.
Married David Klee, January 30, 1977.