Anne Baxter

American actress (1923–1985)

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Anne Baxter was an American actress whose career began in 1940. Her filmography includes *The Magnificent Ambersons*, *Farmhouse Favourites*, *Matthew Connection*, *Woman's work*, and *Family Memoir*. She was recognized in the Academy Award Best Supporting Actress collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.

Baxter was born on May 7, 1923, and died on December 12, 1985. She recorded statements regarding her profession, noting that acting was her "permanent, built-in cathedral." She also commented on the challenges of balancing domestic roles with employment.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 14

Top works

The Magnificent Ambersons
Farmhouse Favourites
Matthew Connection
Woman's work
Family Memoir

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1922-03-14
Active to: 1996-01-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 7
Total plays: 36

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,423x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,047x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
Wettability of porous surfaces
· 1944 · cited 12,788x

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Quotes

“Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.”
“Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it.”
“Acting is not what I do. It's what I am. It's my permanent, built-in cathedral.”
“I loved that one because Greg Peck usually was so stolid in his pictures. Billy made him relax more than usual. He was playing an outlaw and I was shacked up in this ghost town with my pa and the outlaws are trying to smoke us out. Well, there's one line where I remark about his body odor and Greg tried to get it removed, saying it might undermine his box office appeal among girls. And Billy just chuckled and kept on shooting.”
“I can report was twice as acerbic in person than on camera as Addison Dewitt. He was just plain nasty to poor Marilyn Monroe, who was always quaking in her boots. He'd pat her on the rump and say, "You almost got through that two-line speech, my dear. Shall we try again?"”

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Encyclopedic overview

Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. She won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and seven Photoplay Awards, and was nominated for an Emmy and two Laurel Awards.

A granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, Baxter studied acting with Maria Ouspenskaya and had some stage experience before making her film debut in 20 Mule Team (1940). She became a contract player of 20th Century-Fox and was loaned to RKO Pictures for the role of Lucy Morgan in Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). She was the leading lady in Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo (1943). In 1947, she won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sophie MacDonald in The Razor's Edge (1946).

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