# Anne Baxter on screen and stage

Anne Baxter (1923–1985) was an American actress who had an extensive career in film, television, and on stage. She made her acting debut at the age of 13 on stage in the Broadway play Seen, But Not Heard in 1936. Four years later, Baxter starred in her first feature film, the western 20 Mule Team (1940). She appeared in Orson Welles' period drama The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), with Joseph Cotten and Dolores Costello, and followed this with a lead role in Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo (1943). In 1946, she starred as a young woman suffering from alcoholism in the drama The Razor's Edge, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Two years later, Baxter appeared with Gregory Peck in the western Yellow Sky.
For her performance as Eve Harrington, an ambitious understudy, in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve (1950), she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Three years later, Baxter starred in Alfred Hitchcock's film noir I Confess (1953). In the same year, she also appeared in the Fritz Lang-directed film noir The Blue Gardenia. In 1956, Baxter appeared as Egyptian princess Nefretiri in the Cecil B. DeMille-directed biblical epic The Ten Commandments, with Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. Four years later, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Her television debut was in the anthology series General Electric Theater in 1957. She went on to star in several anthology series, including The United States Steel Hour, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the late 1960s, Baxter played two villains in the Batman television series, and in 1969, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role in The Name of the Game.
In 1971, Baxter made a return to Broadway theatre by starring as Margo Channing in Applause, a musical adaptation of All About Eve. Her last acting role was in the television series Hotel, where she starred as hotelier Victoria Cabot.

## Film

List of film roles :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 1940 | 20 Mule Team | Joan Johnson | | |
| 1940 | The Great Profile | Mary Maxwell | | |
| 1941 | Charley's Aunt | Amy Spettigue | | |
| 1941 | Swamp Water | Julie | | |
| 1942 | The Pied Piper | Nicole Rougeron | | |
| 1942 | The Magnificent Ambersons | Lucy | | |
| 1943 | Crash Dive | Jean Hewlett | | |
| 1943 | Five Graves to Cairo | Mouche | | |
| 1943 | The North Star | Marina | | |
| 1944 | The Fighting Sullivans | Katherine Mary Sullivan | | |
| 1944 | The Eve of St. Mark | Janet Feller | | |
| 1944 | Sunday Dinner for a Soldier | Tessa Osborne | | |
| 1944 | Guest in the House | Evelyn Heath | | |
| 1944 | The Purple Heart | Anne (voice) | Uncredited | |
| 1945 | A Royal Scandal | Countess Anna Jaschikoff | | |
| 1946 | Smoky | Julie Richards | | |
| 1946 | Angel on My Shoulder | Barbara Foster | | |
| 1946 | The Razor's Edge | Sophie MacDonald | | [34] [35] [36] |
| 1947 | Blaze of Noon | Lucille Stewart | | |
| 1947 | Mother Wore Tights | Narrator | Uncredited | |
| 1948 | Homecoming | Penny Johnson | | |
| 1948 | The Walls of Jericho | Julia Norman | | |
| 1948 | The Luck of the Irish | Nora | | |
| 1948 | Yellow Sky | Constance "Mike" Mae | | [42] [43] |
| 1949 | You're My Everything | Hannah Adams | | |
| 1950 | A Ticket to Tomahawk | Kit Dodge, Jr. | | |
| 1950 | All About Eve | Eve Harrington | | [46] [47] [48] |
| 1951 | Follow the Sun | Valerie Hogan | | |
| 1952 | The Outcasts of Poker Flat | Cal | | |
| 1952 | O. Henry's Full House | Joanna Goodwin | Segment: The Last Leaf Anthology film | [51] [52] |
| 1952 | My Wife's Best Friend | Virginia Mason | | |
| 1953 | I Confess | Ruth Grandfort | | |
| 1953 | The Blue Gardenia | Norah Larkin | | |
| 1954 | Carnival Story | Willie | | |
| 1955 | Bedevilled | Monica Johnson | | |
| 1955 | One Desire | Tacey Cromwell | | |
| 1955 | The Spoilers | Cherry Malotte | | |
| 1956 | The Come On | Rita Kendrick | | |
| 1956 | The Ten Commandments | Nefretiri | | |
| 1957 | Three Violent People | Lorna Hunter Saunders | | |
| 1958 | Chase a Crooked Shadow | Kimberley Prescott | | |
| 1959 | Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Olive | | |
| 1960 | Cimarron | Dixie Lee | | |
| 1962 | Mix Me a Person | Anne Dyson | | |
| 1962 | Walk on the Wild Side | Teresina Vidaverri | | |
| 1965 | The Family Jewels | Actress in an in-flight movie | Uncredited | |
| 1966 | Seven Vengeful Women | Mary Ann | US Title: The Tall Women | [69] [70] |
| 1967 | The Busy Body | Margo Foster | | |
| 1971 | Fools' Parade | Cleo | | |
| 1971 | The Late Liz | Liz Addams Hatch | | |
| 1980 | Jane Austen in Manhattan | Lilliana Zorska | | |

## Television

List of television roles :
| Year(s) | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 1957 1958 1960 | General Electric Theater | Major Edith Johansen / Stella Rutledge / Ella Harley | Episode: "Bitter Choice" Episode: "Stopover" Episode: "Goodbye, My Love" | [75] [76] [77] |
| 1958 | Playhouse 90 | Pat Bass | Episode: "The Right Hand Man" | |
| 1958 | Lux Playhouse | Delphine Murphy | Episode: "The Four" | |
| 1959 | Riverboat | Ellie Jenkins | Episode: "A Race to Cincinnati" | |
| 1959 | Wagon Train | Kitty Angel | Episode: "The Kitty Angel Story" | |
| 1959 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Laura Fletcher | Episode: "Hand on the Latch" | |
| 1960 | The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Louise | Episode: "The Dance Man" | |
| 1960 | Checkmate | Beatrice Kipp | Episode: "Death Runs Wild" | |
| 1961 | The United States Steel Hour | Paula Marsten | Episode: "The Shame of Paula Marsten" | |
| 1963 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Janice Brandt | Season 2 Episode 2: "A Nice Touch" | |
| 1964 | Dr. Kildare | Nora Willis | Episode: "A Day to Remember" | |
| 1965 | The Loner | Agatha Phelps | Episode: "One of the Wounded" | |
| 1966–1967 | Batman | Zelda the Great / Olga, Queen of the Cossacks | Episode: "Zelda the Great" / "A Death Worse Than Fate" Episode: "The Ogg and I" / "How to Hatch a Dinosaur" | [89] [90] [91] [92] |
| 1967 | Stranger on the Run | Valverda Johnson | Television film | |
| 1967 | My Three Sons | Eileen Talbot | Episode: "Designing Women" | |
| 1967 | Cowboy in Africa | Erica Holloway | Episode: "Search for Survival" | |
| 1968 | The F.B.I. | Katherine Daly | Episode: "Region of Peril" | |
| 1968 | Run for Your Life | Mona Morrison | Episode: "Life Among the Meat-Eaters" | |
| 1968 | Companions in Nightmare | Carlotta Mauridge | Television film | |
| 1968 | The Virginian | Nora Carlton | Episode: "Nora" | |
| 1968 1969 | Ironside | Carolyn White / Alice Flynn | Episode: "An Obvious Case of Guilt" Episode: "Programmed for Danger" | [100] [101] |
| 1968 1969 1970 | The Name of the Game | Magda Blain / Betty Jean Currier / Louise Harris | Episode: "The Protector" Episode: "The Bobby Currier Story" Episode: "The Takeover" Episode: "All the Old Familiar Faces" | [102] [103] [104] [105] |
| 1969 1970 1973 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Myra Sherwood / Julie Langley Kirk | Episode: "A Matter of Humanities" Episode: "Madonna with Knapsack and Flute" Episode: "A Necessary End" | [106] [107] [108] [109] |
| 1969 | The Big Valley | Hannah | Episode: "The 25 Graves of Midas" | |
| 1970 | The Challengers | Stephanie York | Television film | |
| 1970 | Ritual of Evil | Jolene Wiley | Television film | |
| 1970 | Bracken's World | Marian Harper | Episode: "Diffusion" | |
| 1971 | If Tomorrow Comes | Miss Cramer | Television film | |
| 1972 | The Catcher | Kate | Television film | |
| 1973 | Columbo | Nora Chandler | Episode: "Requiem for a Falling Star" | |
| 1973 | Cannon | Helen | Episode: "He Who Digs a Grave" | |
| 1973 | Love Story | Elaine McKinley | Episode: "All My Tomorrows" | [116] [117] |
| 1973 | Banacek | Leslie Lyle | Episode: "If Max Is So Smart, Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?" | |
| 1973 | Mannix | Victoria | Episode: "The Deadly Madonna" | |
| 1973 | Lisa, Bright and Dark | Margaret Schilling | Television film | |
| 1976 | The Moneychangers | Edwina Dorsey | Television miniseries | |
| 1978 | Little Mo | Jessamyn Connolly | Television film | |
| 1979 | Nero Wolfe | Rachel Bruner | Television film | |
| 1980 | Hagen | Claudette | Episode: "The Straw Man" | |
| 1981 | East of Eden | Faye | Television miniseries | |
| 1981 1985 | The Love Boat | Priscilla Crawford / Helen Williams | Episode: "Model Marriage, A / This Year's Model / Original Sin / Vogue Rogue / Too Clothes for Comfort" Episode: "Call Me Grandma / A Gentleman of Discretion / The Perfect Divorce / Letting Go" | [123] [124] |
| 1983–1986 | Hotel | Victoria Cabot | 75 episodes | |
| 1984 | The Masks of Death | Irene Adler | Television film | |

## Stage

List of theatre roles :
| Year(s) | Title | Role | Theatre | Notes |
| 1936 | Seen, But Not Heard | Elizabeth Winthrop | Henry Miller's Theatre | |
| 1938 | There's Always a Breeze | Lita Hammond | Windsor Theatre | |
| 1938 | Madame Capet | Rosalie | Cort Theatre | |
| 1957 | The Square Root of Wonderful | Mollie Lovejoy | National Theatre | |
| 1971–72 | Applause | Margo Channing | Palace Theatre | |
| 1974 | Come Into the Garden Maud | Maud Caragnani | Ethel Barrymore Theatre | Two part play: Noël Coward in Two Plays |
| 1974 | A Song at Twilight | Carlotta Gray | Ethel Barrymore Theatre | Two part play: Noël Coward in Two Plays |
| 1982 | Hamlet | Gertrude | American Shakespeare Theatre | |