Beyond breathtaking chateaus, driving through Tuscany, and all manner of new taste sensations, the trip will likely be remembered most for the Venice fiasco. I guess when it came to torture, one roommate was as good as the next. Mag rolled her eyes and made like it was no big deal. Product ID: 4651733 / SCAN-NQOX-04651733. Miss Baxter married actor John Hodiak in 1946 and they had a daughter, Katrina, before the marriage ended. Publicity Listings She had been starring in the television series, Hotel, and was a stage, screen and television performer over a 49-year period. Thanksgivings were typically spent at Taliesin, the Western Home base that great-grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright had designed. 1963) from her mother's marriage to Randolph Galt. In 1948 she acted in the popular film The Wells of Jericho and Luck of the Irish. [16] The couple had one daughter, Katrina, born in 1951. Baxter left 20th Century Fox in 1953. She had been starring in the television series, Hotel, and was a stage, screen and television performer over a 49-year period. In 1939, she was cast as Katharine Hepburn's younger sister in the play The Philadelphia Story, but Hepburn did not like Baxter's acting style, and Baxter was replaced during the show's pre-Broadway run. It was a brief marriage; Klee died unexpectedly from illness. It's not a long drive from Manchester, New Hampshire to Danbury, Connecticut. In 1942 Anne played Joseph Cotten's daughter, Lucy Morgan, in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). I grinned and threw myself dramatically across the bed, clutching my roommate's ankle as I cried, "Moses.Moses!" The four of us joined several other freshmen to attend the first football game of the season. My college room-mate lost her mother shortly before Christmas in 1985. I didand as she turned it over we both looked at it in surprise. Actress Anne Baxter won the plum role of Eve partly because she resembled Claudette Colbert, who'd originally been cast as Margo. With a keen eye, she assessed our current emotional state and quickly picked up a deck of cards. She maintained an active career until '85 when she suffered a stroke while walking on Madison Avenue, New York City. Truly, it wasn't the same place without her presence. Waist deep in water he got us all out and tossed all our soggy belongings with us. As she was thought to be too young for a film career, she packed her bags and returned to the New York stage with her mother, where she continued to act on Broadway and summer stock up and down the East Coast. However, before she could make a movie with Fox, Anne was loaned out to MGM to make 20 Mule Team (1940). Kelly, the athletic, freckled blonde that everyone found so likeable, put up with our bad behavior every time her father would come to visit. Anne Baxter was under-rated by 20th Century Fox in spite of winning the Oscar. Her next film Razors Edge was directed by Edmund Goulding. For a moment she had sounded so much like her mother "Not quite yetbut perhaps someday" I said with a strange smile that brought a confused look to my friend's face. Her last appearance was in The Masks of Death in 1984. After leaving Fox she signed a two-year contract with Warner Bros and got a role in Alfred Hitchcocks I Confess in 1953 and then in The Blue Gardenia. Actress Anne Baxter arrives to the back lot in Los Angeles, California | Photo: Getty Images. To my relief, Katrina seemed to approve of mewhich was good, because I thought she was an incredible lady. Walter Brennan, Rory Calhoun, Anne Baxter | Full Western MovieThe daughter of a railroad executive, Kit Dodge Jr. (Anne Baxter) is a no-nonsense gunslinger, . Promise?" She pursued an. One moment, she was on her way to a hair appointment and the next a massive cerebral aneurism had taken her life. she asked, her curiosity piqued. Muluzi had two children from her marriage with Bakili Muluzi, namely Austin Atupele Muluzi and Esmie Atweni Muluzi Malisita. [28] Baxter remained on life support for eight days in New York's Lenox Hill Hospital, until family members agreed that brain function had ceased. After several notable TV appearances, Anne became a staple of two television series, East of Eden (1981) and Hotel (1983). It surprised me a bit only because my roommate seemed sonormal. Anne Marie (Nonn) Baxter, 94, of Lancaster, passed away on Monday, January 27, 2020 at Lancaster General Hospital. Shuffling them, she looked at me with a smile. She did her next film Blaze of Noon in 1947 for Paramount. Surrounded by art and treasures from the world over, it is small wonder that I believe in interiors based in art including rugs as artwork for the floor and personal mementos from far and near. It was only the second week of classes, but already I was tired of waking up every morning to my roommate, Claudia's punk rock music obsession. She is an actress, known for Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980). "What did you find?" She was hardly idle, though. Like whatand where?" I always felt as if I was the luckiest person alive to be given a private audience to her performance. Adventures like the white water rafting trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River for a week were the norm. The sound stage sets were magnificent. In 70, Baxter returned to movies, having missed working as an actress. The newlywed couple had purchased a sprawling property in Easton, Connecticut, which they extensively remodeled; however, Klee did not live to see the renovations completed. In 1983, Baxter starred in the television series Hotel, ironically replacing iconic former film costar Bette Davis (All About Eve) after Davis became ill.[citation needed], Baxter married actor John Hodiak on July 7, 1946,[15] at her parents' home in Burlingame, California. MAIL. She has been married to Jeffrey Michael Lunore since 13 October 2004. ", I was overjoyed to find that she had been feeling the same waybut since Maginel was the type to suffer in silence, she would have just endured it in misery. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. "Laurieoh, Lauriecome here! With the great reluctance of a sleeper being torn from an amazing dream, I stood at the door prepared to make my way back home. She was married to stockbroker David Klee, until his death. Miss Baxter, whose home was in Easton, Conn., is survived by three daughters. Child's father is her husband, Martin Vonditter. There was a question I really needed an answer toand I wanted her to take it seriously. HereI'll do it again! "[13] For her work in The Ten Commandments, she won a Laurel Award for Topliner Female Dramatic Performance. Is that something you've thought of doing? "Wonderful!" Eric smiled sheepishly but looked completely unrepentant. The professional lives of the two actresses had crossed triumphantly 34 years earlier in All About Eve, for which both received Academy Award nominations. . She was previously married to Michael Martin Von ditter. In 1940, she was loaned to MGM for her first film 20 Mule Team, in which she was billed fourth after Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, and Marjorie Rambeau. Annie Chidzira Muluzi (18 March 1952 - 28 December 2021) was First Lady of Malawi and wife of Bakili Muluzi. Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 - December 12, 1985) was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. Baxter later recounted that The Razor's Edge contained her only great performance, a hospital scene where the character Sophie "loses her husband, child and everything else." FINANCE. The same year she also appeared in The Eve of St. Mark. By the time the night was over, I'd cleared out the entire pan much to Mag's amusement. The play helped her gain entrance to an exclusive acting school.In 1937, Anne made her first foray into Hollywood to test the waters there in the film industry. Miss Baxter married actor John Hodiak in 1946 and they had a daughter, Katrina, before the marriage ended. She once said in an interview, "Acting is what I do. It's my permanent built-in cathedral.". She was raised in Westchester County, New York[3] and attended Brearley.[4]. [citation needed], Baxter returned to Broadway during the 1970s in Applause, the musical version of All About Eve, but this time as Margo Channing (succeeding Lauren Bacall). I made a quick swipe at my face, a bit embarrassed by my emotional response and tried to compose myself. Anne Baxter (1923-1985), US actress, wearing a pink halterneck top in a studio portrait, against a blue background, circa 1945 | Photo: Getty Images, Baxter went to appear in some movies that saw minimum success at the box office. The next time I met Maginel's mother was marginally better. The following year she played Amy Spettigue in the remake of Charley's Aunt (1941). Search instead in Creative? The '40s saw her perform in "The Great Profile," and the hit film, "Swamp Water.". During the 1960s and 1970s she appeared as a guest artist in TV shows Batman, The FBI, Ironside, The Big Valley, The Name of the Game, Marcus Welby, MD, Cannon Bancek, The Love Boat, Mannix and others. Although my friend was the daughter of a famous actress, I was still an insignificant nobody from New Hampshire as far as the world was concerned. The only other film job Anne appeared in that year was in Swamp Water (1941). She next appeared in Sunday Dinner for a Soldier. When Baxter was five, she appeared in a school play. One can only do so much with storerooms and freezers! After no appearances in 1958, she made one film in 1959 Season of Passion (1959) and one in 1960 Cimarron (1960).After Walk on the Wild Side (1962), she took a hiatus from filming for the next four years. At only 17 years of age, she was already in the kind of pictures that other starlets would have had to slave for years as an extra before landing a meaty role. Either way, it makes me smile remembering that moment. 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. Summers and holidays were divided between trips to visit Dad and his extended family in Hawaii, and Mothers folks in Arizona. "Would you like me to read your cards, Laurie? Queen Anne-Marie of Greece symbolically wore the glittering cross . The only thing that had me packing quickly, kissing my own mother on the cheek, explaining the sudden trip and then hopping into my car was simply friendship. Anne Baxter won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the Golden Globe Award in 1947 for Razors Edge. I wanted so much to stay there, wrapped up in that golden cocoon of lazy summer mornings and the idle life that my friend led. 2023 Getty Images. She had a daughter, Katrina from this marriage. Memorial services will be held in New York and Los Angeles at times to be announced. Personal life and death. After several films through the 1950s, Anne landed what many considered a plum role--Queen Nefretiri in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956). Undaunted by the failure of her previous effort to crack Hollywood, Anne returned to California two years later to try again. Moving every eight months in hotel work, I skipped from Charlotte to Birmingham, then to the Opryland Hotel, Nashville and from there to a final hospitality position at Callaway Gardens in Columbus, Georgia. We'd flopped on the couches in the great room, tossing about ideas of what to do when her mother happened to stroll in. At 16, Baxter screen-tested for the role of Mrs. DeWinter in Rebecca. Baxter did not only take a break from acting, but she also moved to Australia. Appropriately, I also seem to have a strong memory of the hotel rooms, the most unforgettable being in Fort Lauderdale with lots of crushed red velvet (I promise it was a respectable place, albeit the 1970s!). She worked with John Barrymore in her next film The Great Profile (1940) and appeared as the ingnue in the Jack Benny vehicle Charley's Aunt (1941). . While she lived there, the "The Ten Commandment" star stayed on a ranch and got married to the Aussie, Randolph Grant. No funeral was planned. I groaned in horror and set off to help Maginel locate her mother. | The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Fortunately, our rooms were beside each other making us neighbors. Guest in the House (1944) the next year was a dismal failure, but Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) was received much better by the public, though it was ripped apart by the critics. "WellI didn't have time to bake brownies," he admitted. NEW YORK (AP) _ Colleagues are mourning the death of Anne Baxter, whose five-decade career was highlighted by an Academy Award-winning role as a pitiable drunk in The Razors Edge and her performance as a two-faced schemer in All About Eve.. These were my selfish years and if it did not directly involve me, I couldn't have cared less. The space was actually more of an alcove tucked off the main room, overlooking the back gardens through a large window. Mag would never fail to groan in embarrassment at her mother's dramatic gesturesbut I adored them. And if they had, my memories of Anne Baxter were all good ones. We collect and tell stories of people from all around the world. The following year she appeared in The North Star (1943), the first film where she received top billing. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/anne-baxter-3621.php, American Female Film & Theater Personalities, 20th Century Film & Theater Personalities, 20th Century American Film & Theater Personalities. Miss Baxter married actor John Hodiak in 1946 and they had a daughter, Katrina, before the marriage ended. Maginel clung tightly to her boyfriend, Harvey with one hand and to me with the other. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. Access the best of Getty Images and iStock with our simple subscription plan. Given the propensity for violence in Claudia's music, I didn't doubt for a minute that she wouldn't be capable of getting physical. 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