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Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is an American film, stage, and television actress. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Baker's range of roles from naive ingenues to brash and flamboyant women established her as both a serious dramatic actress and a blonde bombshell. While performing on Broadway in 1954, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in Tennessee Williams's Baby Doll (1956). Her role in the film as a sexually-repressed Southern bride lent Baker overnight notoriety and earned her BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer that year.
Other notable early roles included Giant (1956) and But Not for Me (1959), as well as westerns such as The Big Country (1958), How the West Was Won (1962), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). In the mid-1960s, Baker became an established sex symbol for her roles in The Carpetbaggers (1964), Sylvia (1965), and Harlow (1965). She relocated to Italy in 1966 amidst a legal battle over her contract with Paramount Pictures, and spent the following ten years starring in hard-edged horror and giallo thrillers, including Umberto Lenzi's Paranoia (1969) and Knife of Ice (1972), before re-emerging for American audiences as a character actress in Andy Warhol's cult film Bad (1977).
Actors: Marie Laforêt (actress), Joseph Cotten (actor), Maurice Evans (actor), George Hamilton (actor), Alexander Hegarth (actor), Don Taylor (director), Peter Thomas (composer), Karl Lieffen (actor), Eduard Linkers (actor), Robert Naegele (actor), Wolfgang Preiss (actor), Lilli Palmer (actress), Carroll Baker (actress), Zsa Zsa Gabor (actress), Sandy Howard (producer),
Plot: The protege of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault.
Keywords: bank, break-in, burglar, burglar-alarm, caper, celebrity, competition, crime-wave, diamond-theft, glamour