Anne Baxter

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1923 age 0

   Born

2. 1942 age 19

   CreditThe Magnificent Ambersons

3. 1950 age 27

   CreditAll About Eve

4. 1953 age 30

   CreditI Confess

5. 1956 age 33

   CreditThe Ten Commandments

6. 1985 age 62

   Died

7. 1999 age 62

   CreditAll About My Mother

• FFFranklyn Farnum2 titles
• BDBette Davis2 titles
• CHCeleste Holm2 titles
• TRThelma Ritter2 titles
• VPVincent Price2 titles
• RRRic Roman2 titles
• BDBarry Dennen1 title
• VSVito Scotti1 title
• AWAdam West1 title
• AMAlberto Morin1 title

• Spouse

  • JHJohn Hodiak

• Studied under

  • MOMaria Ouspenskaya

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Taught.

• Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.

  Anne Baxter, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it.

  Anne Baxter, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Acting is not what I do. It's what I am. It's my permanent, built-in cathedral.

  Anne Baxter, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Well, rushed over to apologize to me once when Barrymore cut loose with a barrage of foul language, but I didn't even know he was swearing. The way I was raised, I didn't even hear a four-letter word until I was eighteen. I mean that. Here's another example: I was autographing photos of me for fans once and my mother looked over my shoulder with a stricken look on her face and said, "What are you writing?" So I told her: "Good luck, always, Anne Baxter." Then she told me, "Your 'L' looks just like an 'F,' and that's a very dirty word!" But the truth is I'd never heard that word before and hadn't a clue what it meant.

  Anne Baxter, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I wasn't pretty enough to be used for cutesy parts. At my very best, I was attractive. I was not a face, so I never got into that rut. I was also constantly dieting to get rid of my baby fat. I was having a hard time with that and think I probably had a mild case of bulimia. I became a foodaholic. I loved rhubarb pies. There used to be this little place on that made wonderful rhubarb pies. I'd buy one, drive my car onto a side road, eat the whole thing, and then spit it back into the box. I'd buy whole containers of ice cream and spit it into the disposal. It was disgusting!

  Anne Baxter, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Adored him, but he was a lost soul. Kept saying, "They don't make films here like we do in France, n'est-ce pas?" [...] We filmed indoors on a studio stage with a recreated swamp. Jean could only clasp his arms and look horrified. He was limited in camera angles because of the transparency screens—a movement of inches and the screens would be exposed. And his English was learned from books. In conversation, he was terrible. One day he told a little girl extra to "Make some water." He meant get her dress damp because she'd just been pulled from the swamp. Her mother was horrified, thinking he'd asked her to tinkle—and slapped his face.

  Anne Baxter, CC BY-SA 4.0