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Given the creative legacy of Anne Baxter's family—she was Frank Lloyd Wright's granddaughter—her artistic accomplishments were scripted from childhood. She was from the age of ten determined to become an actress after seeing a stage production starring Helen Hayes in New York; her aspirations were encouraged by her parents and grandfather.
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Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana to Kenneth Stuart Baxter and Catherine Wright;[1] her maternal grandfather was architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Baxter's father was a prominent executive with the Seagrams Distillery Co. and she was raised in New York City amidst luxury and sophistication. At age ten, 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. By the age of thirteen, Anne had appeared on Broadway. During this period, Baxter learned her acting craft as a student of the famed teacher Maria Ouspenskaya.
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The granddaughter of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Baxter was brought up in New York City, where she studied acting and made her Broadway debut in 1936. She tested for the leading role in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) and gave a performance that producer David O. Selznick thought was “touching.” Joan Fontaine won that part... and Baxter made her film debut in the minor western 20 Mule Team (1940). She went on to play a variety of roles, from a sweet ingenue in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) to an ambitious, scheming actress in All about Eve (1950), for which she won another Oscar nomination, to a seductive Egyptian princess in The Ten Commandments (1956). In The Razor's Edge, a generally mediocre screen version of W. Somerset Maugham's best-seller, Baxter played Sophie MacDonald, a woman who falls into a life of degradation and vice after her husband and child are killed.
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Baxter died from a brain aneurysm on December 12, 1985, while walking down Madison Avenue in New York City. She is buried on the estate of Frank Lloyd Wright in Spring Green, Wisconsin.[2]
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