Carroll Baker: From Classic Hollywood into a New Era
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- In 1995, Oscar-nominated actress Carroll Baker sat with TCM to reflect on her career and the ups and downs of Hollywood. Baker discusses her breakout role in Giant (1955) alongside James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor, the controversy around Baby Doll (1956), leaving Hollywood for work outside of America, knowing Marilyn Monroe and working with the biggest male stars of the era.
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I never thought that Carroll Baker was so articulate and had so many fascinating things to say about her career. Loved her in Giant and Cheyenne Autumn. She deserves more recognition for her work.
Thank you. Can't get enough of this. I still swoon at the sound of her voice!
Excellent story teller--great actress, eloquent and smart
My God, I’m only 3 minutes in and I’m thinking “what an interesting story”!!!! She really draws u in.. have always like Ms. Baker anyway but boy she’s a gifted story teller!
Absolutely LOVE Carroll Baker, loved her book too. Amazing lady and one of the greatest on screen. A real gem not found today at all.
I didn't know she had a book out. What is it called? Thanks
she also has a delightful sense of humor, did a series of Q&A's a couple year back to tie in with a mystery book that she wrote that is here on youtube. When asked about a couple films she did, had some sweet anecdotes followed by "yet another film where I'm the sole survivor"
@@antonmarino6568”Who Killed Big Al” one of 4 books Carroll Baker🌟🌸
Carroll Baker has a natural & unaffected intelligence combined with common sense & this allows her to tell her story in an accessible manner. I respect that she did not allow Hollywood to guide every aspect of her career. Baby Doll learned & became a mature voice for her generation.
I always loved Carroll’s speaking voice. Great interview. Read her autobiography Baby Doll.
Me, too! Ms. Baker’s voice is different and I’ve always loved her and her speaking voice.
@@Jasper7182009 The second you hear the voice there's no doubt who it is.
@@jochenstossberg5427 why do you say this? An outstanding career. Maybe I've heard the voice. With the awards coming up, I'm wondering if she was ever honored with honorary. Her comments reveal a lot about the industry and she apparently knew how to protect herself. I wish I had those smarts. I have a media degree but it's only caused me trouble. I did 8mm student films wanting to do documentaries. I used to be blonde haired. Loved the fact she entertained the troops.
@@barbarabrennan1753 Carroll should receive A Lifetime Achievement Award for her years of dedicated service to the industry and for the novels she has penned.
I've commented on that very thing elsewhere. To me, Carroll's voice was just drop dead sexy. And beyond beautiful.
Great talented actress. Loved her in Harlow
Great interview of a truly accomplished actress. One of the reasons this is a great interview is because the interviewer lets Ms. Baker actually answer the questions without interrupting her. I learned a lot about Ms. Baker and old Hollywood. I wish more informational interviewers were like the one here. To me a solid informational interviewer does at least 3 things well: Does some research of his or her subject, formulates good questions, and listens more than talks. Otherwise it can turn into a debate, argument, etc. Also, for this interview, it helps the subject was articulate and willing to discuss her career and life. Kudos to Ms. Baker and the interviewer.
Saw Ms. Baker at a showing of "Baby Doll" years ago, wherein she gave a great interview and signed autographs- she has the most amazing, piercing gaze in-person.
She was so beautiful and deserved more.
Her screen presence made any picture perfect.
Like her voice. She was classically beautiful too like Grace Kelly.
She is so well spoken and intelligent. I loved this interview. All of the actors from the “ golden age” of Hollywood are so very important. Even the ones before sound, during it , and up to today, are such a source of invaluable knowledge. We should cherish them and appreciate their contributions and memories. Carroll Baker is underrated and deserves to be recognized as a great actress and so beautiful.
One extremely talented actress
She’s fantastic!
When I was 15. Years old, I saw Harlow and I immediately fell in love ,😍😊❤️
When I heard her voice in the Carpetbaggers, never forgot it! Just love it!
She is so much wiser and smarter than lots of her movie roles. She is deep thinking and very much respectful.
What a fantastic laugh she has. Seems like a great lady. Wonderful interview.
Bridge to the Sun was one of my favorite movies about a deep controversial love. I think it showed Carol Baker's great talent. The ending made me cry.
When I was 13 or so, I saw this!! I had such a crush on James Shigeta!!! It was so sad...🧡😿💜
Great movie. I saw it as a child and it had such an effect on me
What a fab personality & actress
Such a great interview! Never knew Ms. Baker was so interesting.
Unlike Shirley Knight she WAS paid (decently) for her work and unlike Marilyn Monroe she WAS accepted (early on) into the Actors Studio. Marilyn had to audit and pay privately for lessons with Paula and Lee Strasberg. Marilyn`s life was interfered with so she was always on tenterhooks. Marilyn Monroe was murdered. Big diff. Victimization separates and defines people. This becomes more transparent daily. The Big `E` likes Baker, despised Marilyn.
@@sandrashevey8252 Hello??
@@jochenstossberg5427???what are you saying ?! This seems rather cruel …do you have actual facts ?!
How nice she is! And so articulate. She was sensationally good in Baby Doll. I watched it again recently. It's actually very funny - people forget that. She's great!! They brought me all the Erskine Caldwell books! Ha!! What a pity the interviewer is so hard to hear, because this is a wonderful interview.
Always have loved this remarkable woman.
Beautiful and very intelligent. Carroll also went on the USO tour in December 1965
Love Carroll Baker!!
When I was a little girl in the 50's I thought Carroll Baker was one of the most beautiful women in the world.
She totally was.
Great actress
Great, unique perspective on old Hollywood.
My favorite film with her was actually The Big Country with Gregory Peck. I have never been a huge fan of western films but that one was so beautifully done.
Totally agree! Spectacular cinematography and vistas. The Jerome Moors just pulls you in, from very opening of the film.
Such an interesting woman & a good actress. I've learned so much. Thanks for sharing!
Great interview! she comes across very well, the interviewer was very good, most people would have gotten side tracked when Marilyn Monroe story came up, but the interviewer went right back to her subject.
She was Luz in Giant ...Light. She was a down to earth and nice. Very Enjoyable.
Great actress! 🎭
Thank you for putting this up. Great interview!
Ms. Baker mentions "As Good as it Gets," which came out in December of 1997. Based on this, I would think the interview was conducted after that, not in 1995 as stated above.
50 years ago I watched the second half of a film and regretted missing the first half. It started Carroll baker, it occurred to me she was glamorous!❤ 5:13
Nobody mentioned Bridge to the Sun which was a true story of an interracial marriage about a japanese diplomat and a young American. Showed her acting ability and charm and beauty to finally present her as the great talent she is. So beautiful and sweet
Fabulous surprise. Thank you. Ms. Baker was marvelous opposite Jack Nicholson in Ironweed.
That was Meryl Streep, not Ms Baker. Google it.
Would love to sit and have a cup of coffee with this lady. Babydoll and Something Wild are 2 of my favorite movies. She's still beautiful.❤️❤️
She certainly is, an a very genuine and sweet face.
Her Lenzi films are all classic. A class act!
I can never bring myself to accept Carroll Baker as a sex-symbol because she was more than ever a very sensitive artiste, who radiated confidence. An alumni from the Lee Strasberg School of Acting in New York city coupled with stage work, she learned the grammar of acting: The elevation of the individual, the retreat into the self to re-emerge more focused, more energized. She played in a minor role in the Esther Williams' starrer: Easy to love before hitting the big time with Baby Doll as a sexually naive teen which earned her an Oscar nod and and a Golden Globe win.
Carroll was so versatile, she did not let her work ossify into any classifiable style. She always brought a muscular dimension to roles that, without her presence, might have had little substance. She had major outings in films: The Big country, How the west was won, Cheyenne Autumn, Something Wild, But not for me and Bridge to the sun.
Her character in The Miracle [where she played a nun] was so layered and charismatic that she raised the stakes and left her male co-stars [Roger Moore and Vittoria Gasman] looking like a bunch of ancillaries. It was not just a performance, but a reincarnation of her character. There was purity and a glow on her face that was inescapable.
The sex-symbol tag came with The Carpetbaggers which was a hit. This was followed by Harlow, Station Six Sahara and Sylvia [panned by critics, but I loved it]. In this film, she expertly exposed her ragged character's deep wounds. With unflinching resolve, she never begged for any salve. Still she remained the emotional centre of gravity in all sequences. Ms. Carroll Baker was a very classy lady.
Love Carroll Baker - talented lady.
Loved her since I first saw Something Wild in 1980
my favorite movie of hers is Sylvia. She had charisma and screen presence and love her voice.
I love the way the people in those spoke, very articulate.
She is fantastic. Thank you for this
❤️👍🏼🙌🏻👏🏻 one of the best on screen !
I got her boxset with Umberto Lenzi from severin
Class act, through and through. I love to hear her tell stories.
Another great from the Pittsburgh area:)Love Cheyenne Autumn & Something Wild(1961:)
Ryan Gettig....the very first film in which I ever saw Caroll Baker was Something Wild as a rerun on TV when I was 5 or 6 years old. I remember that my mom was not too happy with me watching it. Huge stuff for a 5 or 6 year old....hahahahahaha
@@brianoyler706 Way Cool:)
I loved her in “How the West Was Won.”
Beautiful Lady!
In Giant, Carol Baker wore the most beautiful gown I have ever seen, I would love to have it! It's the white one that she wears at the big convention/party for Jet. Every time I watch Giant I wish I could have it. Now that I'm 59, it wouldn't look good on me at all, but, a girl still has her dreams!!!
Mom's wedding dress
She also was in the movie 🎥 star 80, she played the mom of ..Dorothy Stratton..🎉great actress ❤
Favorite Carroll Baker film? Baby Doll, followed by The Carpetbaggers, Something Wild, and Giant. This is MY list. Please don't give me this, "You forgot," nonsense. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. Also, keep in mind these are the Hollywood films that she did, excluding the Italian sex farce movies she would do later. One lovely Pennsylvania gal. Thanks for sharing. P.S.--Would like to add the film Bridge to the Sun, which gets little mention among Carroll Baker's movies. Saw it once and found it interesting about interracial love. Based on a true story.
Me, before starting the video: I hope she mentions Johnstown.
Carroll, answering the first question: Yeah, I wanted to get out of Johnstown.
Liked her in how the west was won
I love the scene when she lets her son go to war.
She’s the Baby Doll, alright!
Loved her in Kindergarten Cop and Star 80.
me too though she was scary in Kcop
What year was this wonderful Interview done with Carroll Baker🌟👏👏
She was such a bright star and very courageous! Thank you🌟
Awww Love her!! From Ecuador, South America.
Unforgettable Thriller The next Victim💝😍
i don't know her work. she was delightful: smart, warm, lovely looking, generous in spirit. i look forward to discovering her.
She plays Ilsa, Michael Douglas' housekeeper in "The Game".
I wonder if she ever commented in any interview about what it was like to work with James Shigeta on Bridge To The Sun. They were so good together in this film.
Very interesting n informative interview, about herself n other actors/actresses......Europe IS very different than America!!!
In my opinion I see a resemblance to June haver but that’s what I see they were both beautiful❤❤
She references As Good As it Gets in the past tense, which came out in 1997, so this was a fair bit later than 1995. Good interview though.
She Played Jean Harlow
WISH SHE 3OULD HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE FILM ..''HARLOW ''...LOVE TO HEAR WHAT HER TIME WAS LIKE ..NOT HAVING LIKED THE SCRIPT............THATS SORT OF WHY SHE LEFT HOLLYWOOD............SHE IS A M A Z I N G ............WANTED THIS TO BE 2 HOURS LONG...................
When was this filmed?
I knew her son in college.
I loved Carroll Baker. She was, in my opinion, the sexiest woman in the history of film.
A while ago I was very saddened to see a badly informed video on You Tube which claimed Carroll had passed on and came to an unpleasant end.😢😮 it did not say on Google she had passed on! Since then I have discovered this type of thing is more common than you would think! Whoever makes these sad misinformed videos must be sick!!
Her Italian films were Fun. The Sweet Body of Deborah and Paranoia.
What happened to my article on Carroll Baker, it just disappeared.
She is an amazing lady and a real genuine person. Love her work.
Personally, I think Harlow could have been a good film if it was entirely fictitious. It’s main criticism was that it was not true to life, but biopics rarely are. Hollywood versions of history tend to be overfill of artistic licence.
Why did they cut the section where she talks about her European erotic films?
It would help if one could hear the GD question!
It adds a level of amateurishness to an otherwise great interview.
Can't hear the interviewer!!
Since Carroll mentions Marilyn Monroe it might be worth mentioning something. The true crime magazine Murder Most Foul had a front page report entitled Was Marilyn Murdered? There are good reasons to believe she was. In the most recent issue of this magazine I have had a letter published entitled Stardoms Deadly Destiny. Two photos of Marilyn accompany my letter, one showing her as she looked when she was very famous, the other as she looked when she was found dead.😢😢
Marilyn and Dorothy Kilgallen were both Mob hits to cover up the assassination of JFK. Marilyn had a diary and Kilgallen had a notebook filled with her assassination research leading to the Sam Giancana Chicago crime family, The Outfit. J. Edgar Hoover reportedly ended up with the diary. Kilgallen's notebook was never found..
Alwys like Backer
WHAT WAS THE MOVIE SHE PLAYED A NUN ?
I wish Baby Doll was the template for all movies to follow when it comes to sexual content.
Carroll Baker is great, but TCM’s new graphics are horrendous. They’re garish and pointless. It’s a shame. 😢
She's not so tough without her car.
Woman now actually think they struggle the same as these icons
The interviewer is horrible
The interviewer is excellent. Why do you think this is such a terrific interview? The interviewer lets her talk. And the questions are intelligent. Don't agree with you at all.
So annoyingly impersonal to have that interviewer's voice from a distance.