The Temptation Of Eve

The breathy, beguiling, bewitching Miss Baxter.

The Many Faces Of Eve

They smile in your face, 
all the time they want to take your place...
the back stabbers.

Over The Edge

"I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents." -- Betty Grable, turning down the meaty role of the doomed, drunken Sophie in The Razor's Edge (1946), for which Anne Baxter eventually won an Oscar

Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge (20th Century Fox, 1946)

"I'm an actress, not a personality. It's more successful to be a personality." -- Anne Baxter

Anne Baxter in Carnival Story (RKO, 1954)

"Are you kidding? Fans would expect me to rise up out of the water with lily pads in my hair, singing 'Hooray for Hollywood.'" -- Betty Grable, referring to Sophie's dipsomaniacal demise at the bottom of the Seine in The Razor's Edge

Betty Grable in Three for the Show (Columbia, 1955)

Eve Speaks

Our birthday girl, the breathy, bodacious, bad-ass Anne Baxter, is seen below giving a wonderfully, shall we say, animated interview from the 1970's. She's marvelously theatrical in an endearingly over-the-top way that is total artifice and yet so completely part of her being -- and, therefore, natural. To listen to her "burgundy and chocolate" voice, as one writer put it, for nearly thirty minutes is some people's idea of heaven -- certainly, it's ours.

 

ANNE BAXTER

May 7, 1923 - December 12, 1985

 

 

But Alive

Lauren Bacall

Anne Baxter

Arlene Dahl

Eleanor Parker

All but one of 'em.

Hair Today, Immobile Tomorrow

The gradual evolution of Anne Baxter's hair, from flying in the wind to frozen in amber.

Ann, Man!

Anne Baxter in Fools' Parade (1971, Columbia)

Ann Sothern in Sylvia (1965, Paramount)

Grace Under Fire

"She couldn't act, she was arrogant, anti-Semitic, and alcoholic, and talk about social climbing!" - Anne Baxter on Grace Kelly

Carny Girls

Classy Broads

Little Miss Egyptian Evil

All hail Anne Baxter, Queen of the Breathy Bad Girls!

ANNE BAXTER
May 7, 1923 - December 12, 1985

Pompadour and Circumstance

Three More Faces

We did not, perhaps, know all there was to know about Eve.

MISS ANNE BAXTER

May 7, 1923 - December 12, 1985

The Three Faces of Eve

In ascending order of importance, of course.

Christmas Eve