Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is an American film, stage, and television actress. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Baker's range of roles from naive ingenues to brash and flamboyant women established her as both a serious dramatic actress and a blonde bombshell. While performing on Broadway in 1954, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in Tennessee Williams's Baby Doll (1956). Her role in the film as a sexually-repressed Southern bride lent Baker overnight notoriety and earned her BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer that year.

Other notable early roles included Giant (1956) and But Not for Me (1959), as well as westerns such as The Big Country (1958), How the West Was Won (1962), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). In the mid-1960s, Baker became an established sex symbol for her roles in The Carpetbaggers (1964), Sylvia (1965), and Harlow (1965). She relocated to Italy in 1966 amidst a legal battle over her contract with Paramount Pictures, and spent the following ten years starring in hard-edged horror and giallo thrillers, including Umberto Lenzi's Paranoia (1969) and Knife of Ice (1972), before re-emerging for American audiences as a character actress in Andy Warhol's cult film Bad (1977).

Carroll Baker (singer)

Carroll Anne Baker, CM (member of the Order of Canada), (born March 4, 1949), is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter.

Biography

Carroll Baker was born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. The nearby fishing village of Port Medway, Nova Scotia displays a sign near the village entry claiming the community to be "The Home of Carroll Baker." She left Port Medway and moved to Toronto with her family when she was 16.

She was discovered by songwriter, George Petralia, and promoted and produced by Don Grashey. Her first single in 1970, 'Mem-ries of Home,' written by George Petralia, for the Gaiety label (owned by Don Grashey), was a minor hit, staying on the charts for a record breaking 26 weeks. With the success of the very first recording, Grashey contacted several record companies regarding a recording contract for her and finally settled on Columbia Records.

She recorded two albums for Columbia but had only limited commercial success. Eventually she went back to Mr. Grashey's record label, Gaiety Records. She then was signed to RCA Records where she had several Gold and Platinum records. From RCA, she joined Tembo records where she was again awarded platinum record status for her record sales.

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Springfield News-Sun 23 Mar 2025
PREP RESULTS. Boys Basketball. STATE TOURNAMENT. At UD Arena. Saturday’s Finals. Division I. Olentangy 56, Reynoldsburg 41. O. Appiah 20, Schroeder 12, Brown 10. R. Fisher 20, McKinney 11. Division V ... CA ... Carroll 11, Stebbins 7 ... Baker W 7 K ... Stebbins 14, Carroll 6.
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How Sofia Pepper emerged as a star for Amarillo High girls soccer in her sophomore season

Amarillo Globe-News 12 Mar 2025
"It was really good," Pepper said ... Comprised of Briana Gomez, Sahara Taumoepeau, Saylor Carroll, Addison Ault, Aubrey Baker and Chloe Godinez, the group not only performs well on the field, but serves as team captains and leaders in the locker room.
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The Columbus Dispatch 12 Mar 2025
Top headlines of the week, March 7 2025. Here are some stories you may have missed on Dispatch.com and in the Columbus Dispatch newspaper ... Carroll Baker will be the opening act, with fellow comedy magician Brendan Trojan as the headliner at both shows.
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