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.
Check out Carroll Baker’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Carroll Baker is # 891 on the 2020 Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. These are the other actors on the list she appeared with.
14 MAX VON SYDOW The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
16 DENNIS HOPPER Giant (1956)
38 CHARLTON HESTON The Big Country (1958)
38 CHARLTON HESTON The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
39 RODDY MCDOWELL The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
41 DONALD PLEASENCE The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
54 ROGER MOORE The Miracle (1959)
57 HARRY DEAN STANTON How the West Was Won (1962)
58 ELI WALLACH Baby Doll (1956)
58 ELI WALLACH How the West Was Won (1962)
68 JOHN CARRADINE Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
80 MARTIN LANDAU The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
81 ROBERT MITCHUM Mister Moses (1965)
82 IAN BANNEN Mister Moses (1965)
82 IAN BANNEN Station Six-Sahara (1962)
82 IAN BANNEN The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
83 JACK NICHOLSON Ironweed (1987)
99 RIP TORN Baby Doll (1956)
126 HENRY FONDA How the West Was Won (1962)
127 DENHOLM ELLIOTT Station Six-Sahara (1962)
129 SEAN PENN The Game (1997)
133 MERYL STREEP Ironweed (1987)
134 ERIC ROBERTS Star 80 (1983)
158 SHELLEY WINTERS The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
161 ROBERT LOGGIA The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
189 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Kindergarten Cop (1990)
200 MARTIN BALSAM Harlow (1965/I)
200 MARTIN BALSAM The Carpetbaggers (1964)
201 KLAUS KINSKI The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984)
206 MICHAEL DOUGLAS The Game (1997)
243 LESLIE NIELSEN Harlow (1965/I)
248 ANGELA LANSBURY Harlow (1965/I)
248 ANGELA LANSBURY The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
275 CAROL KANE The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984)
290 GREGORY PECK How the West Was Won (1962)
290 GREGORY PECK The Big Country (1958)
301 VING RHAMES Native Son (1986)
306 JOSE FERRER The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
344 JOHN WAYNE How the West Was Won (1962)
344 JOHN WAYNE The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
352 TELLY SAVALAS The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
373 FERDY MAYNE The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984)
403 ARMIN MUELLER-STAHL The Game (1997)
406 LIONEL STANDER Cyclone (1978)
439 CLIFF ROBERTSON Star 80 (1983)
445 JAMES GAMMON Ironweed (1987)
458 VITTORIO GASSMAN The Miracle (1959)
471 MATT DILLON Native Son (1986)
479 MARIO ADORF Station Six-Sahara (1962)
480 DIANE LADD Something Wild (1961)
496 VIVECA LINDFORS Sylvia (1965)
502 RICHARD WIDMARK Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
502 RICHARD WIDMARK How the West Was Won (1962)
514 ADOLFO CELI La moglie di mio padre (1976)
534 CURT JURGENS As of Tomorrow (1976)
556 ZELJKO IVANEK Nowhere to Go (1998)
576 TED LEVINE IRONWEED (1987)
597 PAUL FIX Giant (1956)
607 ELIZABETH MCGOVERN NATIVE SON (1986)
625 JAMES REBHORN The Game (1997)
626 BEN JOHNSON Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
630 CLIFTON JAMES Something Wild (1961)
633 ALEXANDER KNOX Mister Moses (1965)
667 PETER LAWFORD Harlow (1965/I)
667 PETER LAWFORD Sylvia (1965)
707 RAF VALLONE Harlow (1965/I)
756 DEBBIE REYNOLDS How the West Was Won (1962)
760 LEE VAN CLEEF How the West Was Won (1962)
768 EDWARD G. ROBINSON Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
779 ELIZABETH TAYLOR Giant (1956)
784 BETTE DAVIS The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
789 MARK BOONE JUNIOR The Game (1997)
807 PERCY HERBERT Deathwork (1971)
812 SIDNEY POITIER The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
813 ROD TAYLOR Giant (1956)
825 NEHEMIAH PERSOFF The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
851 ALDO RAY Sylvia (1965)
860 MIKE MAZURKI Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
873 BUD CORT The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984)
876 MATHIEU CARRIERE BAIT (1976)
878 RICHARD PORTNOW Kindergarten Cop (1990)
895 JOHN CRAWFORD The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
918 ANGELA BASSETT KINDERGARTEN COP (1990)
954 DORIS ROBERTS SOMETHING WILD (1961)
962 NATHAN LANE IRONWEED (1987)
964 DIANE VENORA IRONWEED (1987)
974 EDMOND O’BRIEN Sylvia (1965)
981 PAUL WINFIELD In the Flesh (1995)
991 LILLI PALMER But Not for Me (1959)
Carroll appeared with 28 Oscar winners.
BEN JOHNSON Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
BETTE DAVIS The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
BURL IVES The Big Country (1958)
CHARLTON HESTON The Big Country (1958)
CHARLTON HESTON The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
CLARK GABLE But Not for Me (1959)
CLIFF ROBERTSON Star 80 (1983)
EDMOND O’BRIEN Sylvia (1965)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Giant (1956)
GERALDINE PAGE Native Son (1986)
GREGORY PECK How the West Was Won (1962)
GREGORY PECK The Big Country (1958)
HENRY FONDA How the West Was Won (1962)
JACK NICHOLSON Ironweed (1987)
JAMES STEWART Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
JAMES STEWART How the West Was Won (1962)
JOHN WAYNE How the West Was Won (1962)
JOHN WAYNE The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
JOSE FERRER The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (1965)
KARL MALDEN Baby Doll (1956)
KARL MALDEN Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
KARL MALDEN How the West Was Won (1962)
MARTIN BALSAM Harlow (1965/I)
MARTIN BALSAM The Carpetbaggers (1964)
MARTIN LANDAU The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
MERYL STREEP Ironweed (1987)
MICHAEL DOUGLAS The Game (1997)
RED BUTTONS Harlow (1965/I)
SEAN PENN The Game (1997)
SHELLEY WINTERS The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
SIDNEY POITIER The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
SPENCER TRACY How the West Was Won (1962)
VAN HEFLIN The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
WALTER BRENNAN How the West Was Won (1962)
Hey Dan. As always…thanks for putting together these trivia lists. I will admit, that I am surprised she is on the Oracle 1000. Seems she started out strong in the 1950s and 1960s…but it has not been a great run since then. Looking at the first list…..Ian Bannen gets the honors for Most Frequent Oracle co-star. 28 Oscar winning co-stars is about average….looks like two movies helped her generate that number….The Greatest Story Ever Told and How The West Won. Good stuff as always.
Hi Bruce, with nearly 18,000 views my Carroll Baker video has been one of my most watched videos, maybe that poster cover helped. Thanks for the share amigo.
I’ve seen 10 of the 28 films on the chart, favorites are – The Big Country, How the West Was Won, The Carpetbaggers, Kindergarten Cop, The Greatest Story Ever Told & Giant.
Good to see The Big Country topping the critics chart, and Giant tops the UMR chart and box office charts. By the time Giant went on release James Dean had been dead for more than a year, it must have been a sad Hollywood movie premiere.
Nice work Bruce, Vote Up!
Hey Steve…glad your Carroll Baker video has been so popular. Always glad to share your videos on our pages. I agree that poster might draw some people in. Tally count….the Bob sits in first with 11. Just barely edging you out….your 10 is two ahead of me. I have seen all of your favorites except for The Carpetbaggers….I guess I am going to have to breakdown and watch that one on TCM one day. The Big Country is one of my Top 100 movies….it is time to re-watch that one. We now have 11 UMR pages associated with that movie…which is a good total…but nothing compared to the 28 UMR pages associated with How The West Was Won. Good point about the premiere of Giant. Good stuff as always.
According to the Celebrity Net Worth site Carroll [who now near 90 has I think been retired since 2003 so that presumably her earnings would be largely in “old dollars” that have now lost a lot of the value they once had] has a net fortune of just $4 million.
IMDB credits Carroll with 4 acting awards and 6 nominations including a 1960 star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1725 Vine Street. They didn’t throw awards at everybody who just showed up on set in Carroll’s heyday as they seem to do nowadays. I have seen 11 of Carroll’s movies mostly made in her early days.
Baby Doll
Giant
Big Country
Carpetbaggers
Cheyenne Autumn
Nr Moses
Ironweed
Kindergarten Cop
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Station 6 Sahara – I actually watched that one out in the desert when I was serving with the British Royal Air Force in 1964.
But Not for Me-Carroll does romantic comedy and her 28 year old “looker” lusts after the 58 year old King of Hollywood. “Oh you gay old dog Mr Gable!” enthused one 1950s critic. However this was a bit misleading because as I suggest it was actually ‘dirty young woman’ Baker who does the main chasing.
“They’re writing songs of love
But not for me
A lucky star’s above
But not for me
I was a fool to fall, and get that way
Hi ho alas and also lackaday
Although I can’t dismiss
The memory of his kiss
I guess he’s not for me.” [George Gershwin lyrics]
Hey Bob….thanks for the additional information on Carroll Baker. Good information on her net worth and her award recognition. Tally count: Bob with the lead….as your 11 just edges out Steve’s 10 and my 8….but Flora has not reported yet. Good memory of Station 6 Sahara and where you watched it. I watched the trailer for But Not For Me……that age difference really showed up in black and white…..I can only imagine if the movie was in color. Good Gershin lyrics. Good stuff as always.
“Baby Doll Baker” was her original nickname because of her sexy tour de force performance in that movie and for a while she was heavily promoted as a sex symbol/temptress in films like Station Six Sahara; Sylvia; The Carpetbagger [in which her character Rina Marlowe was said to be based on the real-life perception of Jean Harlow] and then of course she played Harlow herself in the 1965 movie. The hard sell of Carroll as a great “sexpot” was of course helped by pin-up exposure in the ‘adult’ magazine Playboy.
However away from the sexy roles I thought that she had a reasonably pleasing acting range and I particularly enjoyed her as Greg’s catty bride to be [whom he dumps in favour of English Rose Jean Simmons] in The Big Country; the pacifist Quaker schoolteacher in my Richard’s Cheyenne Autumn; as Rina in The Carpetbaggers; and as the vicious gangster–mom in Arnie’s Kindergarten Cop much later in her career [1990].
In The Carpetbaggers she had that wonderful one line when she says about her ageing western movie star screen husband THE Nevada Smith [played by the sadly real life equally over-the-hill Laddie] “Nevada’s like his guns: full of blanks!”
In Kindergarten Cop she was even more chilling and dangerous than her ruthless gangster son [played well by Richard Tyson]. I liked Arnie too in that one as though no great actor in the traditional sense he displayed that flair of his for blending his tough guy persona with comedy and a vulnerable trait at times. Few thespians can successfully pull off that trick in my opinion; the only other actor who immediately springs to my own mind being Kelsey Grammar in the TV sitcom Frasier.
That quality in Arnie is the reason why he is just about the only screen tough guy that I can watch theses days apart from Willis who also is not without a sense of humour in some of his action roles. So all-in-all Good Choice WH – what took you so long?
Hey Bob….thanks for the feedback on Carroll Baker and her movies. I had never connected the dots to Carroll Baker sex idol of the 1950s and 1960s to the mom in Kindergarten Cop. Thanks for putting the spotlight on that. Good line from The Carpetbaggers…a movie that I have still not seen. Baby Doll got her career going….but that was her one and only Oscar nomination. All those movies overseas was the main delay in getting this page done…but better late than never.
HI BRUCE
Thanks for the Baker feedback. I like the way in which you have ranked Carroll’s overseas movies with no grosses. It makes your normal comprehensive profile of a star’s career even moreso; so well done WH – we’ll make a Dan out of you yet: HE seems to omit nothing!
If Carroll had achieved in the modern era the fame that she did in her heyday she would have just had to get married and they would have showered her with awards along with the confetti; and once she had had a single big hit under her belt she would have been presneted with a printing press along with her Oscar so that she could print her own megabucks.
Another excellent UMR page.
Mike
Thank you Mike.