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Anne Baxter, granddaughter of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was destined for stardom. She was once described by critic Andrew Sarris as one of the women who "shine with special brilliance from midnight to five o'clock in the morning of the soul." Born in Michigan City, Indiana on May 7, 1923, she was the daughter of Kenneth Stuart Baxter and his wife, Catherine Dorothy Wright. Anne began acting at the age of 11 with Maria Ouspenskaya, debuting on Broadway two years later in "Seen But Not Heard." As a teenager she was screen tested and landed a seven year contract with Twentieth Century-Fox. She continued working on Broadway until her screen debut at age 17 while on loan to MGM in Twenty-Mule Team (1940), a minor Western featuring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Rambeau.
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Though her second marriage to Galt did not last much longer, Baxter and Galt had two daughters together: Melissa and Maginel. Privately during this period, Baxter chose to refer to herself as Ann Galt amongst her neighbors in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, probably as a way to downplay her star status and to raise her daughters as normally as possible. Baxter was briefly married again in 1977 to David Klee, a prominent stockbroker, but was widowed when he died unexpectedly due to illness; Baxter never remarried. They had purchased a sprawling property in Easton, Connecticut which was extensively remodeled, but Klee did not live to see the renovations completed. The house itself was architecturally reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's flat-roofed structures. Baxter remodeled the living room fireplace to resemble the fireplace in her grandfather's masterpiece, Fallingwater.
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Raymond Burr is found dead by the police, and Anne Baxter is persuaded she's murdered him. The journalist Richard Conte, in charge of the case, tries to find a way to meet the "Blue Gardenia" murderess and publishes an open letter in the newspaper, inviting the culprit to tell him what has happened during that night.
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That afternoon, Harold insisted on driving Anne home, so she was forced to give them a fake address, and send them off before she went inside. Once at the door, Anne knocked and a woman named Dulce Johnstone answered. Anne explained that she’d become lost and needed to call her parents in Eden Hills to come and collect her. Having secured her place in the Timmins family, Anne then set about work on stealing Bree’s boyfriend. Claiming that she was concerned that Zeke didn’t know how much Bree cared for him, Anne typed a letter to him, claiming that it was from Bree, and telling him how much she loved him. Zeke was touched, until Anne blurted out the truth and Bree couldn’t understand why.
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In 1937, Anne made her first foray into Hollywood to test the waters there in the film industry. As she was thought to be too young for a film career, she packed her bags and returned to New York with her mother, where she continued to act in Broadway and summer stock up and down the East Coast.
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Synopsis: The "one desire" of ex-gamblers Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. Rock and Baxter move to a small town, with Hudson's younger brother (Barry Curtis) and an orphaned girl (Natalie Wood) in tow. Julie Adams, daughter of the townRead More
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