Anne Baxter

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Anne Baxter was an American actress whose acting career spanned almost five decades

May 7, 1923

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Personal Details

  • Birthday: May 7, 1923
  • Died on: December 12, 1985
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Film & Theater Personalities, Actresses, Theater Personalities
  • Spouses: David Klee (m. 1977–1977), John Hodiak (m. 1946–1953), Randolph Galt (m. 1960–1969)
  • Childrens: Katrina Hodiak, Maginal Galt, Melissa Galt
  • Birth Place: Michigan City

Anne Baxter born at

Michigan City

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Birth Place

She married actor John Hodiak on July 7, 1946 and divorced him on January 27, 1953. She had a daughter, Katrina from this marriage.

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Personal Life

She married Beverly Randolph Galt, an Air Force pilot, on February 18, 1960, and divorced him in 1968. She had two daughters, Melissa and Maginal from this marriage.

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Her third marriage was with a stockbroker named David Gutman Klee on January 30, 1977 who he died suddenly nine months later.

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Personal Life

Anne Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana on May 7, 1923 to a sales manager, Kenneth Stuart Baxter and his wife Catherine Dorothy Wright, daughter of the famous architect Frank Llyod Wright.

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Childhood & Early Life

She attended the ‘Brearley School’ after her family moved to New York from Michigan when Anne was eleven.

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Childhood & Early Life

She made her stage debut at the tender age of thirteen with the murder mystery ‘Seen But Not Heard’ in 1936.

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Childhood & Early Life

She followed it up with ‘There’s Always a Breeze’ and ‘Madame Capet’ on Broadway in 1938.

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Childhood & Early Life

During the summer of 1938 and 1939 she also appeared in various plays at the ‘Cape Playhouse’ in Dennis, Massachusetts.

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Childhood & Early Life

Anne Baxter got her first decent role in ‘Swamp Water’ directed by Jean Renoir.

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Career

Her next roles were in ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ directed by Orson Welles, ‘Pied Piper’ in 1942 and the Technicolor film ‘Crash Drive’ in 1943.

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Career

In 1943 she was loaned to ‘Paramount’ to act in Billy Wilder’s ‘Five Graves to Cairo’. In the same year producer Samuel Goldwyn took her on loan for ‘North Star’.

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Career

She appeared in ‘The Sullivans’ in 1944. The same year she also appeared in ‘The Eve of St. Mark’. She next appeared in ‘Sunday Dinner for a Soldier’. She starred in another film in 1944, ‘Guest in the House’, this time for ‘United Artists’.

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Career

In 1945 she got a very small role in ‘A Royal Scandal’.

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Career

Anne Baxter won the ‘Best Supporting Actress’ Oscar and the ‘Golden Globe Award’ in 1947 for ‘Razor’s Edge’.

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Awards & Achievements

In 1951 she was nominated for an ‘Academy Award for Best Actress’ for ‘All About Eve’.

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She was honored with a star on the ‘Hollywood Walk of Fame’ on February 8, 1960.

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In 1969 she won a ‘Primetime Emmy Award’ nomination for ‘Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role’ for the film ‘The Name of the Game’.

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She was made honorary mayor of the ‘Universal City’ in 1970.

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