Anne Baxter (1923-1985) was an Oscar® winning American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. She won an Oscar® and a Golden Globe® and was nominated for an Emmy®. Her IMDb page shows 99 acting credits from 1940 to 1986 . This page will rank 45 Anne Baxter movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television appearances, shorts, and movies not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. This UMR page comes from a request by Lupino.
Anne Baxter Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Anne Baxter Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® wins each Anne Baxter movie received.
- Sort Anne Baxter movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Anne Baxter
1. Anne Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana in 1923.
2. Anne Baxter was the daughter of a salesman and his wife, Catherine, who herself was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, the world-renowned architect.
3. At age 10, Anne Baxter attended a Broadway play starring Helen Hayes, and was so impressed that she declared to her family that she wanted to become an actress.
4. In 1939, she was cast as Katherine Hepburn‘s little sister in the play The Philadelphia Story, but Hepburn did not like Baxter’s acting style and she was replaced during the show’s pre-Broadway run. Rather than giving up, she turned to Hollywood. In Hollywood, she screen test for the lead role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca…..but Hitch thought she was too young.
5. All About Eve Trivia: (1) Was initially cast in All About Eve (1950) because of her resemblance to Claudette Colbert. Miss Colbert was first signed (she was later replaced by Bette Davis) for the role of Margo and the idea was to have Eve visually turn into Margo. (2) While Bette Davis and Anne were both the stars of All About Eve (1950), it was thought that they would both stand a better chance at Oscar trophies if Anne were to be placed in the “Supporting Actress” category, thus avoiding each canceling the other out. Anne refused to be put in the supporting category. (3) Sure enough, both actresses were nominated for “Best Actress” Oscars and both lost to Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday (1950).
6. Anne Baxter was good friends with legendary costume designer Edith Head. Head was godmother to one of Baxter’s daughters.
7. Anne Baxter starred in five Oscar® Best Picture nominees: The Pied Piper (1942), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Razor’s Edge (1946), All About Eve (1950) and The Ten Commandments (1956). All About Eve won.
8. Anne Baxter was married three times and had three children. Her first marriage was to actor and co-star, John Hodiak.
9. “Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!”, one of her lines in The Ten Commandments (1956), was included among the 400 quotes nominated for the American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes list.
10. Check out Anne Baxter’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Is the ranking of Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (45) correct given that it was released by Fox as a second feature to the Robert Taylor narrated wartime documentary The Fighting Lady, and played most if not all of its first-run engagements that way?
Hey Anonymous…..according to the excellent book by A. Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History…it is. Other sources like Variety has it has a Top 10 movie for almost a month, and the Harrison Report gives it good marks as well. Good information on The Fighting Lady…..I will do some further research when I get some time. Good feedback.
BOB’s 13 “HAVE SEEN” Anne Baxter MOVIES
All about Steve
The Razor’s Edge – my own favourite among her films
Yellow Sky – Anne/Greg/Widmark all great together.
The Magnificent Cogersons– my 2nd fave Baxter film
The Ten Commandments – dominated by Chuck but Anne was still good
The Walls of Jericho
I Confess
Cimarron
Carnival Story
One Desire – 2nd billed Hudson coming through strong as Hollywood’s new mega star
Three Violent People
Chase a Crooked Shadow
The Spoilers – remake of the earlier 1942 classic with Anne/Big Jeff Chandler/and my Rory Calhoun in respectively the earlier Dietrich/Wayne/Randy Scott roles.
FAKE NEWS CORRECTION In WH’s co-star links column the entries for The Ten Commandments should read “Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner”. Chuck/Yul and Anne had the 3 leads and got the main billing whilst Eddie Robinson was in the supporting role of Dathan. Such distinctions are important to the true Movie Buff
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Hey Bob….Tally count: Tally count: Lupino 28, Flora 16, Bob 13, PhilHoF17, Cogerson and Pierre 6, Steve 5, and bob cox 3. Thanks for sharing your mini-reviews on the ones you have seen.
As for the UMR Co-Star link…..that is not the top billed column….that is to get more views on the website….with the costs of this website skyrocketing…..getting more views is our top priority…..at the rate we are going UMR might only have 6 and a half months left (next website provider option is February 2nd 2021)….as we might give up the website and concentrate on YouTube…which means the tables will only exist on the Way Back Machine.
Good stuff as always.