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The bare fact about buxom blonde film star Carroll Baker is that she was simply too sexy for America. A talented and nuanced actress along with being a sugar-pie sexpot, at the outset of Carroll's career in the late 1950s, she was touted as becoming the next Marilyn Monroe. Baker chased the blonde-goddess star opposite James Dean in Giant (1956) and as the … Join Mr. Skin to read her entire Biography
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The film stars Carroll Baker as the title character, a gorgeous young woman who has been married for the past year to failed businessman Karl Malden. It was a precondition for their marriage that it would not be consummated until its first anniversary, which is now pending. Malden, desperate to revive his business and gain access to his wife's bed, burns down the plant of his arch-rival Eli Wallach. His plan succeeds at first, as Wallach must use Malden's facilities to produce his cotton. But Wallach and Baker begin a collusion that could prove Malden's undoing.
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This is a typical Carroll Baker film (meaning, good trashy fun!). Carroll plays a poor young woman whose home life leaves much to be desired heads out into the big, bad world to make a name for herself. Carroll encounters sadomasochists, drag queens, and other assorted unusual sorts of people on her journey. A very boring actor is the film's narrator and he eventually meets up with Sylvia/Carroll.
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[I]n 1906 Carroll acquired the Queensland rights for the first Australian feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, and screened it so successfully that he established an open-air picture circuit round Brisbane suburbs. He ... owned touring side-shows and vaudeville acts and later built skating-rinks in several rural centres which were used in summer for picture shows. He gradually built up a chain of theatres.
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Carroll plays Harlow in the movie based on Irving Shulmann's questionable (meaning, most of it was probably invented by the author) biography of Harlow. And although Carroll isn't volumptuous like the real Harlow she makes for a decent 1960's model of a Harlow look-a-like. This is a fun film and Carroll has some good dramatic moments. Any fan of Hollywood lore will enjoy this movie.
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There are several conversations between Wallach and Baker that seem endless, as he first sizes her up and then tries to win her. Baker's motivation to fall for Wallach seems suspect, coming right after he has threatened to kill her. The arguments between Malden and Baker that open the film are much more entertaining.
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