Blonde Bombshell Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker was a movie sex symbol, but more importantly, she was a serious dramatic actress! To me, Carroll Baker delivered many compelling performances in her prolific movie career.

In the 1950s and into the 1960s, when talking about blondes and sex symbols in the movies, there was not only Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Joey Heatherton ... but there was also Carroll Baker!

What you may not know about the talented and beautiful actress Carroll Baker is that she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1725 Vine Street.

She has also written three books: Baby Doll, An Autobiography, published in 1983, and A Roman Tale and To Africa, With Love, both published in 1985.

Carroll Baker was a movie sex symbol, but more importantly, Carroll Baker was a serious dramatic actress. Let's check her out!

Photo Credit: Carroll Baker as Harlow. Hubba Hubba I say!

An interesting title for her autobiography; i.e. Baby Doll: An Autobiography. If you take a moment to read some of the poignant reviews, you get a good insight into the life she has led. Perhaps she was born too soon?

Did you know this about Carroll Baker? Carroll Baker’s flashy portrayal of a Jean Harlow-type movie star in the 1964 hit The Carpetbaggers brought her a second wave of notoriety and marked the beginning of a tumultuous relationship with the film’s producer, Joseph E. Levine.

Based on her Carpetbaggers performance, Levine began to position Baker to be a movies sex symbol, casting her in the title roles of two 1965 potboilers, Sylvia and Harlow.

Are you in the Carroll Baker Fan Club? You know that I am in the Carroll Baker Fan Club! Love her? Never heard of her? Share your stories, sightings, thoughts, rants, raves, whatever! You must leave me a comment.

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• Carroll Baker is beautiful and so sexy!
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• I love her movies!
• She should be my mom!

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