Carroll Baker Trivia

Carroll Baker is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American actress.

Carroll Baker was born on May 28, 1931 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Carroll Baker is the daughter of Virginia and William Watson Baker.

Carroll Baker's Measurements are: 35B-24-35.

Carroll Baker was considered a movie sex symbol, in the 1960s.

Carroll Baker became a nightclub dancer to raise money for her tuition at the Actors Studio.

Carroll Baker was Miss Florida Fruits & Vegetables of 1949.

Carroll Baker made her movie debut in 1953, with a small role in Easy to Love.

Carroll Baker shot to fame after she was nominated to the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film Baby Doll.

In 1964, impressed with Carroll Baker's beauty an African chieftain offered 150 cows, 200 goats and sheep, and $750 for her while she was on location in Kenya for he movie ‘Mister Moses’.

Carroll Baker has been married three times. Carroll's first marriage was to Louie Ritter. The couple got divorced before Baker enrolled in the Actors Studio in 1954. Her second marriage was to director Jack Garfein, a Holocaust survivor. They had one daughter, Blanche Baker, born in 1956, and a son, Herschel Garfein, born in 1958. Garfein and Baker divorced in 1969. Baker married her third husband, British theater actor Donald Burton, on March 10, 1978. The couple remained together until Burton's death from emphysema at their home in Cathedral City, California, on December 8, 2007.

Carroll Baker has a star on the world famous Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1725 Vine Street.

Carroll Baker has also authored three books: Baby Doll, An Autobiography, A Roman Tale and To Africa, With Love.