Known
as “Baby Doll”, Carol was the daughter of
a traveling salesman. . After attending community college
for only one year she started work as a magicians assistant.
Her first notable roll was in “Easy To Love”
in 1953; during this time she did TV commercials and had
a bit part on Broadway.
Carroll studied at Actors Studio, and when Warner Brothers
cast her in “Giant” she would get the roll
in the move “Babay Doll” which gave her the
namesake. In 1965 is was rumoured that an African Masai
chieftain was so fascinated by Baker that he offered 150
cows, 200 goats, and sheep, and $750 for her while she
was on location for the 1965 movie "Mister Moses."
Moving to Italy, she made films there, soon followed by
Spain, Germany, Mexico and England, eventually returning
to America.
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She
stayed in The U.S. for many years, working on various
pictures of one type or another, before returning to America
in the late 1970s. In recent years she has received the
opportunity to work in a number of made for TV movies,
but critics have remained strangely silent; even today
not too many people know of an actress whose career spans
five decades. Her autobiography, "Baby Doll,"
was published in 1983.
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Filmography:
Another Woman's Husband (2000)
Nowhere to Go (1998)
Rag and Bone (1997)
Heart Full of Rain (1997)
Game, The (1997)
North Shore Fish (1997)
Skeletons (1996)
Just Your Luck (1996)
Dalva (1996) (
Im Sog des Bösen (1995)
Gipsy Angel (1994)
Kiss to Die For, A (1993)
Men Don't Tell (1993)
Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993)
Jackpot (1992)
Blonde Fist (1991)
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Ironweed (1987)
On Fire (1987)
Native Son (1986)
What Mad Pursuit? (1985)
Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985)
Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud, The (1984)
Red Monarch (1983)
Star 80 (1983)
Watcher in the Woods, The (1980)
Plank, The (1979)
World Is Full of Married Men, The (1979)
Cyclone (1978)
Bad (1977)
Moglie di mio padre, La (1976)
Zerschossene Träume (1976)
Next Victim, The (1976)
Ab morgen sind wir reich und ehrlich (1976)
Lezioni private (1975)
Moglie vergine, La (1975)
Corpo, Il (1974)
Baba Yaga (1973)
Coltello di ghiaccio, Il (1972)
Diavolo a sette facce, Il (1971)
Spider, The (1970)
Última señora Anderson, La (1970)
Rain (1970)
Paranoia (1970)
Così dolce... così perversa (1969)
Orgasmo (1969)
Dolce corpo di Deborah, Il (1968)
Jack of Diamonds (1967)
Harem, L' (1967)
Harlow (1965)
Mister Moses (1965)
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1965)
Sylvia (1965)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Carpetbaggers, The (1964)
Station Six-Sahara (1962)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Something Wild (1961)
Bridge to the Sun (1961)
Miracle, The (1959)
But Not for Me (1959)
Big Country, The (1958)
Baby Doll (1956)
Giant (1956)
Easy to Love (1953)
"Monodrama Theater" (1952)
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