Who is the actress? Opposite Charlton Heston " the ten Commandaments"

[14x7]

So I thought I would watch this , and ,am wondering who the actress is ? she is a cutie !

[rockne10]

Google is your friend. Or, in my case, DuckDuckgo.com

"It stars Charlton Heston in the lead role, Yul Brynner as Rameses, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, Edward G. Robinson as Dathan, Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora, Debra Paget as Lilia, and John Derek as Joshua; and features Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Sethi, Nina Foch as Bithiah, Martha Scott as Yoshebel, Judith Anderson as Memnet, and Vincent Price as Baka, among others."

[345 DeSoto]

Yup, Anne Baxter.

[Bob Bryant]

So I thought I would watch this , and ,am wondering who the actress is ? she is a cutie !

You asked the question...I was wondering whom she might be, also!

[48skyliner]

One of my favorite classic movies is "All About Eve", from 1950 starring Anne Baxter and numerous other famous people, notably George Sanders who won an Oscar for his part. There is even a small part for Marilyn Monroe. Very entertaining. The final scene is quite famous among movie buffs.

[Mikado282]

George Sanders and his brother Tom Conway are interesting persons in their own right. Both born in Russia in the early 1900's before the revolution to a wealthy family they and their family fled to England in the wake of the revolution. It is said they were some distant relatives of the Czars, I became aware of them when I discovered "The Falcon" series of movies. George started off starring in the series when in one of the movies he is killed off and his real life brother Tom Conway who plays his brother in this movie takes over the role of the Falcon.

[DEEPNHOCK]

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Anne Baxter

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Overview (3)

Date of Birth

7 May 1923, Michigan City, Indiana, USA

Mini Bio (1)

Anne Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana, on May 7, 1923. She was the daughter of a salesman and his wife, Catherine, who herself was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, the world-renowned architect. Anne was a young girl of 11 when her parents moved to New York City, which at that time was still the hub of the entertainment industry even though the film colony was moving west. The move there encouraged her to consider acting as a vocation. By the time she was 13 she had already appeared in a stage production and had garnered rave reviews from the tough Broadway critics. The play helped her gain entrance to an exclusive acting school. 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 the New York with her mother, where she continued to act in Broadway and summer stock up and down the East Coast. Undaunted by the failure of her previous effort to crack Hollywood, Anne returned to California two years later to try again. This time her luck was somewhat better. She took a screen test which was ultimately seen by the moguls of Twentieth Century-Fox and she was signed to a seven-year contract. However, before she would make a movie with Fox, Anne was loaned out to MGM to make 20 Mule Team(1940). At only 17 years of age, she was already in the kind of pictures that other starlets would have had to slave for years as an extra before landing a meaty role. Back at Fox, that same year, Anne played Mary Maxwell in The Great Profile (1940), which was a box-office dud. The following year she played Amy Spettigue in the remake of Charley's Aunt (1941). It still wasn't a great role, but it was better than a bit part. The only other film job Anne appeared in that year was in Swamp Water (1941). It was the first role that was really worth anything, but critics weren't that impressed with Anne, her role nor the movie. In 1942 Anne played Joseph Cotten's daughter, Lucy Morgan, in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). The following year she appeared in The North Star (1943), the first film where she received top billing. The film was a critical and financial success and Anne came in for her share of critical plaudits. Guest in the House (1944) the next year was a dismal failure, but Sunday Dinner for a Soldier(1944) was received much better by the public, though it was ripped apart by the critics. Anne starred with John Hodiak, who would become her first husband in 1947 (Anne was to divorce Hodiak in 1953. Her other two husbands were Randolph Galt and David Klee). In 1946 Anne portrayed Sophie MacDonald in The Razor's Edge (1946), a film that would land her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She had come a long way in so short a time, but for her next two films she was just the narrator:Mother Wore Tights (1947) and Blaze of Noon (1947). It would be 1950 before she landed another decent role--the part of Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950). This film garnered Anne her second nomination, but she lost the Oscar to Judy Holliday forBorn Yesterday (1950). After several films through the 1950s, Anne landed what many considered a plum role--Queen Nefretiri in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments(1956). Never in her Hollywood career did Anne look as beautiful as she did as the Egyptian queen, opposite Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. After that epic, job offers got fewer because she wasn't tied to a studio, instead opting to freelance her talents. After no appearances in 1958, she made one film in 1959 Season of Passion (1959) and one in 1960 Cimarron (1960). After Walk on the Wild Side (1962), she took a hiatus from filming for the next four years. She was hardly idle, though. She appeared often on stage and on television. She wasn't particularly concerned with being a celebrity or a personality; she was more concerned with being just an actress and trying hard to produce the best performance she was capable of. After several notable TV appearances, Anne became a staple of two television series, East of Eden (1981) andHotel (1983). Her final moment before the public eye was as Irene Adler in the TV filmSherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984). On December 12, 1985, Anne died of a stroke in New York. She was 62.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson

Spouse (3)

David Gutman Klee	(30 January 1977 - 15 October 1977) (his death)
Beverly Randolph Galt	(18 February 1960 - 29 January 1970) (divorced) (2 children)
John Hodiak	(7 July 1946 - 27 January 1953) (divorced) (1 child)

Trivia (31)

Granddaughter of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Following her death, she was interred on her grandfather's estate at Lloyd Jones Cemetery in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Was initially cast in All About Eve (1950) because of her resemblance to Claudette Colbert. Miss Colbert was first signed for the role of Margo and the idea was to have Eve visually turn into Margo.

Was the top runner for the lead in Rebecca (1940) and completed several tests for it before David O. Selznick decided to cast Joan Fontaine at the last minute.

Was good friends with legendary costume designer Edith Head. Head was godmother to one of Baxter's daughters.

Has the unique distinction of being the only actress to play two different guest villains on the television series Batman (1966), having played Zelda the Great during the first season and Olga, Queen of the Bessarovian Cossacks, during the third season. For the latter, she even learned to swear in Russian! Like most performers who guested on the series, she maintained that it was an enjoyable experience.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 51-53. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.

Turned down the role of Polly Cutler in Niagara (1953) and was replaced by Jean Peters. After her withdrawal, the film was reworked to highlight Marilyn Monroe.

In Italy, almost all of her films were dubbed by Dhia Cristiani. She was occasionally dubbed by Lidia Simoneschi, Andreina Pagnani and once by Rosetta Calavetta in Walk on the Wild Side (1962).

Maintained her primary residence in Easton, Connecticut, on a ten-acre estate from the 1970s until her death.

While Bette Davis and Anne were both the stars of All About Eve (1950), it was thought that they would both stand a better chance at Oscar trophies if Anne were to be placed in the "Supporting Actress" category, thus avoiding each canceling the other out. Anne refused to be put in the supporting category. Sure enough, both actresses were nominated for "Best Actress" Oscars and both lost to Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday(1950).

Turned down the starring role in the movie Too Much, Too Soon (1958), the overly dramatic, highly fictional retelling of actress Diana Barrymore's misfortunes. The role went instead to Dorothy Malone.

She replaced Lauren Bacall as Margo Channing in the Broadway hit "Applause", the musical adaptation of "All About Eve".

Was made Honorary Mayor of Universal City in 1970.

She and her third and last husband, David Klee, a prominent stockbroker, were working on renovations on a Connecticut home when he died unexpectedly in October of 1977 after only nine months of marriage.

Anne was walking down Madison Avenue in New York City when she suffered her fatal brain aneurysm in 1985.

The daughter of Kenneth Stuart Baxter, a sales manager, and housewife Catherine, she later had three daughters. Katrina Hodiak is a composer, married and with children. Melissa Galt (born 1961) is an interior designer in the Atlanta, Georgia area, and Maginal Galt (born 1963) is reportedly a Catholic nun residing in Rome, Italy.

Baxter studied with strong-willed dramatic coach Maria Ouspenskaya and their disagreements often resulted in clashes of temperament.

A 14-year-old Anne Baxter was called in to test with a youthful Montgomery Clift as Tom, but the actor's acne was so bad at the time that the test was never made and both were sent back to New York by producer David O. Selznick.

Was very good friends with actress Maureen O'Hara.

She was a staunch Republican who gave much of her time and money towards various conservative political causes. She attended several Republican National Conventions, galas, and fund-raisers, and she was active in the campaigns of Thomas E. Dewey,Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.

Gave birth to her 1st child at age 28, a daughter Katrina Hodiak on July 9, 1951. Child's father is her 1st ex-husband, John Hodiak.

Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 38, a daughter Melissa Galt on October 4, 1961. Child's father is her 2nd ex-husband, Randolph Galt.

Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 39, a daughter Maginal Galt on March 11, 1963. Child's father is her 2nd ex-husband, Randolph Galt.

Suffered a miscarriage at 3 months pregnant in October 1960.

Was on life support for eight days until family members agreed that brain function had ceased.

Campaigned for the title role in Pinky (1949) but Jeanne Crain, who received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead.

Was the 27th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Razor's Edge (1946) at The 19th Academy Awards on March 13, 1947.

Became a grandmother for the 1st time at age 61 when her daughter Katrina Hodiakgave birth to a son, Tobin Vonditter, in September 1984. He was only 15 months old when she died.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6741 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

In 1954, her part of Nefretiri in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956) was regarded by columnist Louella Parsons as "the most sought after role of the year".

Personal Quotes (10)

[on All About Eve (1950)] I patterned Eve [Harrington] after the understudy I had in a Broadway play when I was 13. She actually threatened to finish me off. She was the bitchiest person I ever saw.

The Razor's Edge (1946) contained my only great performance. When we shot that hospital scene in which "Sophie" loses her husband, child and everything else, I relived the death of my brother, whom I adored and who died at three. It gives me chills right now to think of it.

I'm an actress, not a personality. It's more successful to be a personality. But can you use it in every role? I don't spill over into everything I do. I do what I do from inside someone else's skin.

[on Frank Lloyd Wright] Like many famous men, my grandfather had been too busy to be a good father. But he was a charming grandfather. He designed plans for me for a doll-house. On his wedding night, he wore nothing but a red sash. Now that's what I call a true romantic.

Tallulah Bankhead is a marvelous female impersonator.

[on Hedy Lamarr in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949)] If I had just seen myself as Delilah, looking as Hedy did, I would still be talking about it.

The greatest beauty secret in the world is rest. It is the fundamental rule which must be followed if you want to look well and feel well.

If a role is challenging, then my enthusiasm is unflagging and I can bring something special to the performance.

[in 1954] There's no reason why feet should be the ugliest part of the body. Four thousand years ago Egyptians considered a woman's feet beautiful. So why not today?

You can always tell gay actors. They're the ones who have the plain or ugly wives. Or live with an ugly girl. Besides, most of the gays in Hollywood are good-looking. They don't let themselves go to pot or fat, like Chevy Chase or Dan Aykroyd. Gay actors prize their looks, and so do their easily fooled public!

[Guest]

In short... she was definitely a fox.

[14x7]

She was a very attractive woman, and it's a shame she died such a young age. And that's who I was referring to!!!! thanks Mike