Gorgeous American actress Anne Baxter
Gorgeous American actress Anne Baxter
Born May 7, 1923 in Michigan City, Indiana, Ann Baxter grew in a wealthy family of Kenneth Stewart Baxter and Catherine Wright. And her maternal grandfather was the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Her father was a prominent official in the company “Seagram Company Ltd.”, and the childhood of the future actress passed in luxury and prosperity in New York.
At the age of ten, she first came to a Broadway production and firmly decided to become an actress. Already at 13, Baxter began to study acting on Broadway in the studio of the famous actress and teacher Maria Ouspenskaya (1936–40). For the first time Anne Baxter visited the casting in 1940, auditioned for the role in the movie “Rebecca”. However, director Alfred Hitchcock found her too young, and the role went to Joan Fontaine. But still the tenacity of the actress helped her to break into the cinema, and soon she signed a contract with “20th Century Fox”, followed by her first film roles. Seven years after her film debut, Baxter won the Oscar for her role in the film “On the Edge of the Blade”.
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