Happy Birthday, Carroll Baker!

Bursting onto the scene in the controversial "Baby Doll," Carroll Baker seemed poised to be the "Method Monroe." Strangely, despite a string of increasingly less successful subsequent films, Baker got a second-act chance at superstardom, when producer Joseph Levine fashioned a series of huge, opulent, would-be blockbusters around her, nearly eight years following her sensational debut. The second time around didn't click, either, and from there it was into wacky, psychedlic-tinged Italo-horror flicks and melodramas--all of which I'd love to see! (With titles like "Orgasmo" and "Paranoia," who wouldn't?)

Happy Birthday, Ms. Baker! We won't reveal a lady's age, of course.