Carroll Baker SIGNED Photo Autobio James Dean Harlow Giant Liz Rock Baby Doll HC
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Baby Doll by Carroll Baker................ hardcover book with dustjacket is in very good condition - dustjacket is in very good condition with no wear in protective cover - inside has no torn or missing pages nor other writing (see photos).......... Signed Photo attached on 3rd page To Richard Best Wishes Carroll Baker The actress candidly discusses her personal life, her roles in "Baby Doll," "Giant," "Harlow," and "The Carpetbaggers," and her memories of James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Elia Kazan, and others The 37 years of her life leading up to her virtual disappearance could make a sizzling soap opera. The product of a broken home, she was happy to flee to the vaudeville circuit as a magician’s assistant and chorus girl. She married the man who raped her when she was a virgin. She ran away from that sordid marriage and landed in Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio in New York. There she learned method acting with the likes of James Dean, Rod Steiger, Mike Nichols and her second husband, Jack Garfein. After she appeared on Broadway in All Summer Long and in a television mystery called The Web, director George Stevens plucked her for the role of Luz Benedict II in the epochal Giant, with Dean, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. In 1955 she left New York for Hollywood and a soon-to-be-rued seven-year deal with Warner Bros. Then came the pivotal event in her life. Three weeks after wrapping Giant, Baker began filming a Tennessee Williams script then called Mississipp
- Year: 1983
- Binding: Hardcover
- Condition: Very Good
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