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Claudia Parker. Sylvie Tannen. Weston - Family Affair Rae Morrison. Sibella Stone. Mother Paloma. TV Movie Louise Steinhauser. Fran Haley. Phyllis Nash. Sandy Marshall. He made them part of the film. The fact that it wasn't just a bizarre character. This was a real meaningful name in the south of Mississippi. And then with a with a Southern accent; I wasn't just copying what you hear on TV. I met a woman; she was an older woman and she had the the southern talk, but she lisped a little bit, and it was also baby talk.

She was sincere. I love the scene where they take the furniture and it just came to me at the last minute. They're picking up my chairs, taking away my furniture, and I had that purse on the string and I start hitting the guys.

It wouldn't hurt them but it shows how angry she is. So it drove him mad. They really represent pure acting and they were both from the studio.

I can't imagine anybody else being able to play that part. She was so wonderful and, yes, from the studio. They already had lots of jobs so I looked up to them. It was just a dream come true. Joe Levine was a newcomer in films and he thought he was Mike Todd. He saw me at the Paris Ball or something and he came up to me and he offered me Rina Marlowe [in The Carpetbaggers , ]. So, yes, of course, I was going to do it. I had turned down anything that was going to cast me as just a sex pot and that was very difficult.

I wasn't just this little sexy girl from the South. After Baby Doll , Warner Bros. He did all these little sexy Southern things and there was one film. I can't remember the actress now who did it. I wasn't allowed to see it, but I went to see it anyway. She was crawling up to this guy because she was hungry and he had food. You got the impression that she was she was going to lay down for him. At the age of I saw it I didn't get anything out of it. I just saw it was kind of weird that she was crawling.

They wanted to cash in on the image and all the publicity of Baby Doll. I was turning down everything and then Warner Bros.

It was hard for me because I wanted to work, but I didn't want to do a poor imitation of Baby Doll. I was on suspension for I don't know how long, how many months.

You've been on suspension for months. There's a project that you will not be able to turn down. So when I did The Miracle I didn't read the script. They just told me it was going to be a nun.

I wasn't really a nun; I was a postulate for three minutes of movie time when Roger Moore came riding by on a white stallion, and he was so handsome and he had a Red Army uniform on and that was it. The movie people started coming to me right away.

Baker was born during the Depression in Johnstown, Penn. She was heavily pursued for the movies, but was very particular about what she wanted: a first film helmed by a major director.

Of that shoot in Texas, she remembers that she and Dean were in awe of their costars, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson , and recalls the heartbreaking day when she, Stevens, Taylor and Hudson were watching rushes when Stevens received a phone call notifying him that Dean had been killed in a car accident. What do you have to say? With back-to-back major films, Baker was suddenly famous. When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you. After Baby Doll I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from "Baby Doll". And when I got to work with him, I couldn't believe it. I still had a crush on him. He was quite an old man by then; he must have seen that I was head over heels, even though I was married. MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. Life seems to be a never-ending series of survivals, doesn't it?

Levine ] behaved like he owned me. My husband thought it was all terrific as long as I kept bringing in the money. I started objecting to everything, but it was too late. The sex-symbol image had already started. I turned down parts and they blacklisted me. The press attacked me viciously at every opportunity. I came very close to suicide. Elia Kazan was, without a doubt, the best actor's director, but John Ford put "motion" in motion pictures.