Want to know the best Carroll Baker movies? How about the worst Carroll Baker movies? Curious about Carroll Baker box office grosses or which Carroll Baker movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Carroll Baker movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Carroll Baker (1931-) is an Oscar® nominated American actress. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Baker was one of the most popular actresses working. Her acting career spanned 6 decades. Her IMDb page shows over 84 acting credits from 1952 to 2003. This page will rank Carroll Baker movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition. This comes from an old request from Mike and a new request from Frank.
Carroll Baker Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Carroll Baker 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 any way you want.
- Sort Carroll Baker movies by her co-stars
- Sort Carroll Baker movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Carroll Baker movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Carroll Baker movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Carroll Baker movie received.
- Sort Carroll Baker movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Carroll Baker made many movies overseas, here are those movies ranked according to critics and audiences. Sadly we could not find box office grosses for these movies.
- 1967’s Her Harem 60.50%
- 1970’s A Quiet Place to Kill 59.00%
- 1972’s Knife of Ice 58.00%
- 1969’s So Sweet… So Perverse 57.50%
- 1969’s Paranoia 57.50%
- 1968’s The Sweet Body of Deborah 57.50%
- 1990’s Gipsy Angel 56.50%
- 1973’s Baba Yaga 56.50%
- 1971’s The Fourth Victim 56.50%
- 1976’s Bait 56.00%
- 1973’s The Flower with the Deadly Sting 56.00%
- 1976’s Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife 55.00%
- 1975’s At Last, at Last 54.50%
- 1974’s The Body 54.50%
- 1995’s In The Flesh 54.00%
- 1976’s As of Tomorrow 54.00%
- 1975’s The Private Lesson 54.00%
- 1992’s Cyber Eden 52.00%
- 1979’s Bloodbath 52.00%
- 1971’s Captain Apache 51.50%
- 1971’s The Devil with Seven Faces 50.00%
Possibly Interesting Facts About Carroll Baker
1. Carroll Baker was born and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
2. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Carroll Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954.
3. Following the death of Debbie Reynolds in December 2016, Carroll Baker is–as of June 2020–one of two surviving cast member of the 24 credited actors in the epic Western How the West Was Won (1962). The other surviving cast member is Russ Tamblyn.
4. When Carroll Baker refused to play a nymphomaniac in 1958’s Too Much, Too Soon (1958), Warner Bros. refused to loan her out to appear opposite Laurence Olivier, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in 1959’s The Devil’s Disciple. Baker’s trouble with Warner Bros. continued when she declined to act in a series of movies based on books by pulp writer Erskine Caldwell. This led to her losing out on outside offers to do 1957’s The Three Faces of Eve, 1958’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and 1958’s The Brothers Karamazov.
5. Despite playing the daughter of Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor in 1956’s Giant, Carroll Baker was just nine years younger than Hudson and actually nine months older than Taylor.
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Hello à toutes et tous,
I was waiting that page for a long time.
I remembered when Marilyn Monroe died, she was the only one who can get the Crown.
She was everywhere, on the newspapers, I remembered she was going to sing in Vietnam For soldiers with miss America but her films in 64 and 65 a part The Carpetbaggers and the great story (just a little part )were not big success and in the mean time she was the
N 1 blonde star of Hollywood.
I read a long time ago that she did not want that so she left Hollywood for Italia to preserve herself where she made most of her films.But when she came back in Hollywood, I think in the middle of 70, it was too late, in America , she was like *has been.
I think most of her films in Europe where not big succes, in France I am sure for the others countries, I don’t remember.
So she started again, but time have changed, Hollywood was different And they were so many news actresses, public was different too…the star system was different…
I saw her in the Game, good film and good interpretation for her but it was so far away from her glorious days.
Anyway she stay for ever in the movie story, Baby Doll and the beautiful girl of Taylor and Hudson.
Giant is always a great pleasure to see, it seems intemporel…and the question of âge between Hudson, Taylor and Baker is just HOLLYWOOD.
Bye bye
Pierre
Hey Pierre….good comment on Carroll Baker. Glad we finally were able to get her page done. Good thoughts on her popularity. I agree her post Hollywood career was not too successful….but her run in the 1950s and 1960s was very successful. I need to re-watch her modern movies like The Game and Kindergarten Cop….as I did not realize who she was the first time I watched those movies. Good stuff as always.
FYI Can you e-mail me at cogersonmoviescore@gmail.com? We are doing an interview series of UMR Hall of Famers…and you my friend are one of those people.
I have seen 8 Carroll Baker movies. The highest rated movie I’ve seen is GIANT. The lowest rated movie I have seen is SOMETHING WILD. The highest rated movie I haven’t seen is THE BIG COUNTRY. Favorites include BUT NOT FOR ME, GIANT, and HOW THE WEST WAS WON. Other Carrol Baker movies I have seen are BABY DOLL. SOMETHING WILD, THE CARPETBEGGARS, HARLOW, and THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.
Hey Greg…..thanks for the comment on our Carroll Baker page. I almost rented Something Wild from my local library….but I put it back on the shelf. Tally count: Bob 11, Flora and Steve at 10 and you and me sitting at the bottom with 8. I would highly highly highly recommend The Big Country…not only a great western….but a great movie…with a great cast. The trailer for But Not For Me makes me want to watch it…even if Gable seems a tid bit too old to be romancing the very young Carroll Baker. Good stuff.
Good to see a Carol Baker page. I have seen 10 Carol Baker Movies.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Giant.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Kindergarten Cop.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Jack of Diamonds.
Favourite Carol Baker Movies:
The Big Country
How the West Was Won
Giant
Cheyenne Autumn
Other Carol Baker Movies I Have Seen:
The Carpetbaggers
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Baby Doll
Easy to Love
Something Wild
Jack of Diamonds
Hey Flora….thanks for the comment on Carroll Baker. Tally count. Tally count: Bob 11, Flora and Steve at 10 and Cogerson and Greg sitting at the bottom with 8. Not surprised at all that The Big Country sits at the top of your lists. Seems like it has been awhile since we talked about that great Gregory Peck movie. I have Baby Doll….on my others list as well. Good stuff as always.
Thank you so much for this long overdue recognition and honor to the beautiful and talented Carroll Baker. It is a shame that Hollywood critics never gave her due as a versatile actress of both drama and comedy (such as in But Not For Me with Clark Gable).
She starred with some of the best and brightest male stars: Gable; Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston in The Big Country; Richard Widmark in Cheyenne Autumn; James Dean and Rock Hudson in Giant; Robert Mitchum in Mr. Moses, among others. She was the perfect match for Alan Ladd in The Carpetbaggers and both gave the best performances in the film.
After Joseph Levine literally drove her out of Hollywood in the late 1960s, she reinvented herself as popular film star in Europe in a series of films in Europe; and returned to write several successful books. On her return to U.S. cinema, with the exception of Andy Worhal’s Bad, she underwent age discrimination and did not get the good roles she deserved.
Thank you Miss Baker for all you wonderful films and performances. God bless you with infinite happiness, health, and love.
Hey Frank. Glad you found your requested Carroll Baker page…thanks for the kind words. As for your comment…well done. Lots of information. Somehow I have managed not to see The Carpetbaggers. I need to track that movie down. Another one I will have to check out is But Not For Me….you are the second person to speak positive of that movie….one of Gable’s last movies. Good stuff.