Stirred, Straight Up, with a Twist

The breathy, beguiling, bewitching Miss Baxter .

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

"I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents." -- Betty Grable ...

Our birthday girl, the breathy, bodacious, bad-ass Anne Baxter , is seen below giving a wonderfully, shall we say, animated interview from...

Lauren Bacall Anne Baxter Arlene Dahl Eleanor Parker All but one of 'em.

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

Anne Baxter in Fools' Parade (1971, Columbia) Ann Sothern in Sylvia (1965, Paramount)

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

All hail Anne Baxter, Queen of the Breathy Bad Girls ! ANNE BAXTER May 7, 1923 - December 12, 1985

We did not, perhaps, know all there was to know about Eve. MISS ANNE BAXTER May 7, 1923 - December 12, 1985

In ascending order of importance, of course.