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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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.
We have discussed on this site the seemingly wildly excessive amounts of awards/noms that are handed out these days for even routine acting performances. In Anne Baxter’s day the opposite was the situation. Whereas almost all thespians today are each credited with totals that go into three figures in Anne’s time such accolades were so hard-earned and sparse that when Anne won a supporting Oscar in 1947 and earned a best actress nomination in 1951 her friends and immediate colleagues nicknamed her forever “The Oscar Girl”.
The 13 Baxter movies that I have seen are tabulated in Part 2 but I mentioned recently that I last saw Anne as the guest murderer in 1973’s TV Columbo episode Requiem for a Fallen Star in which she was deliciously supported but other Hollywood stalwarts from the old days: Kevin McCarthy/Mel Ferrer and famed Hollywood designer Edith Head. Edith played herself and in the plot was designer for Anne’s fallen star. Edith and Anne were of course both famously associated with 1950s All About Steve for which Edith designed Bette Davis’ costumes.
Columbo had droves of Hollywood “Golden Oldies” popping in and out of its episodes over the years and whilst thespians like Anne were clearly past their heyday because of fading looks and changes in the tastes of moviegoers they were at the peak of their experience as actors and actresses and were thus in a way a greater joy to watch than ever. Heck even Sly mut have learned SOMETHING about the craft after a couple of decades before the cameras.
Anne is on record as enjoying working with Charlton Heston and it was reported at the time that after completing 1956’s The Ten Commandments she excitedly told friends “I’m immediately signed for another with Chuck.” [ie 1957’s Three Violent People].
Anyway this Cogerson profile of Anne is “Voted Up” – for my money a good and well-deserving subject Bruce
Hey Bob….thanks for checking out one of our older pages…..looking at the views….this one has been a modest success….certainly not a big view getter. Thanks for the Columbo trivia….you are the expert on Columbo (though PhilHoF17 well educated too) and Brando. Glad she enjoyed working with Heston. Good stuff as always.
HI BIG BOY: I check your new pages list at least twice a day as I like to offer at least some comment asap on every fresh individual movie star that you profile. Steve has set up a special link for me on Greg’s page so I can immediately identify his new videos when they arrive and I don’t think that I have missed commenting on even one of Steve’s fresh ones since he and I started discussing his work [and it is decent of you to let us use your site for those exchanges].
However you must not have been highlighting the introduction of some of your new pages too well on occasions as I see that there are many of them that I appear to have missed and will now wish to provide belated comment on the outstanding ones as soon as I can.
I recently caught on that there was an Anne Baxter page only because I spotted another viewer commenting on it. Anne never became one of the foremost Legends – I tend to put her in the same bracket as Thins in terms of stardom – but Baxter was important enough for me to have wanted to record her stats in my database and to comment on a Baxter page if I had been aware of it.
At the very least it would have given me the opportunity to plug the fact that Rory was her co-star in The Spoilers and A Ticket to Tomahawk- my Rory getting billed above the young Monroe and Cogerson favourite Walter Brennan in that latter one.
Cogerson Box Office Champ Walte r Brennanalso supported Rory in the 1954 western Four Guns to the Border; and when Brennan’s daughter [Coleen Miller] tries to shoot Calhoun Rory overpowers her and trailing her across the corral throws her at Walter’s feet and utters the immortal line “I take it this is your brat!” The Thin Woman would never have been up to one-liners such as that!
I will now start going over the lists on your new pages page and where appropriate play catch-up as quickly as I can. As I say I am pretty vigilant in looking out for the new pages/videos from you and Steve but if the fault has been mine on any occasion I apologise.
Any loss has of course been mainly mine as my databases could be missing some interesting stats and indeed there is worse – there is possibly some pearl of wisdom that Joel has thrown out to us that I am unaware of! Or should I console myself by recalling the advice to “see no evil/hear no evil/speak no evil”?
Hey Bob. So Greg has a YouTube channel too? Very cool Siri what is the name of his website so I can check it out. One day Rory will have an UMR page. Good storm as always.
HI BRUCE:
We are at cross purposes here and I am sorry if I have misled you. Steve has left for me on YOUR Greg page a link to his videos and I go through that. “Check it Out!” as Bill Murray would say
Hey Bob….got it. I was thinking Greg had a YouTube channel like Steve. I was going to put some UMR spotlight on it. Now I understand. Thanks for the clarification.
Harry Carter was in 10 films with Anne Baxter.
Hey Dan….thanks for the information on Harry and Anne Baxter. Almost a year since you were here last…where does the time go?
Harry Carter appeared in 10 pictures with Anne Baxter.
I saw 3, hey stop laughing, 60% of steve is good for me. 50% of cogerson and pierre I am impressed with myself. no favorites. 3 in my top 500. her top 3 UMR all 10s
Hey bob cox…you can not have stellar tally counts all the time. Tally count: Lupino 28, Flora 16, Bob 13, PhilHoF17, Cogerson and Pierre 6, Steve 5, and bob cox 3. Thanks for the ratings on her Top 3. Good stuff as always.
I’ve only seen 6 Anne Baxter movies and from what I’ve seen she was particularly effective playing conniving and hypocritical characters, best of all in All About Eve, where she more than held her own opposite Bette Davis, and as pharaoh’s wife in The Ten Commandments. But I liked Baxter also in kinder roles, notably as the sexy and fiery tomboy in Yellow Sky (from which I believe the second photo on this page was taken).
Hey PhilHoF17…over two years later…..but I am ready to finally respond back to your comment….lol. I agree with you about her “conniving and hypocritical characters”. Also agree on the greatness of Baxter in All About Eve. Pretty sure you were correct about that still being from Yellow Sky. Tally count: Lupino 28, Flora 16, Bob 13, PhilHoF17, Cogerson and Pierre 6, Steve 5, and bob cox 3. Good stuff.
Where are you Lupino? The last time we communicated…you were not doing too well…hope everything is better now.
Hey, better late than never Bruce. So thanks for responding…but why are we talking about Anne Baxter again? Ah, so many new pages and commemoration of old pages, I’m losing track!
Hey PhilHoF17….Bob commented on Anne Baxter….not sure what got him looking at the page….but we have some pages on UMR…..lol. I just got through fixing the new pages page….the new pages are now in the correct order…sorry for making it so difficult…I was actually trying to make it easier.
As I get close to having all of Joel’s subjects completed…..some of the subjects do not seem to have much to talk about. For example…Robby Benson. I like Robby Benson…but in the last 35 years…he has Beauty and the Beast….before that he had a few movies. If Joel was writing his book today, I doubt Benson would make the new editiion.
Did you check out the BryRog57 Interview Video….you got a quick shout out in the video….as did Lupino, Helakoski, Pierre, KTCat94, Flora and yourself.