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  • All About Eve
  • All About Eve review by from Deep in the valleys of stunning Mid Wales.
    Rated - 4.0 stars A 1 June 2005
    ...y in the 'kiss-ass' art of getting ahead in showbiz and as such the focus is on Anne Baxter's extraordinary performance. Take it from me, if you want to know what 98% of ...   Read customer review
  • The Magnificent Ambersons
  • The Magnificent Ambersons review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Ambitious Magnificence 23 December 2008
    ... of which were innovations at that time. The cast were very good, especially Anne Baxter and the excellent Agnes Moorehead who was nominated for an Oscar as Best Actres...   Read customer review
  • Chase A Crooked Shadow
  • Chase A Crooked Shadow review by A customer from Tombstone, Enfield
    Rated - 3.0 stars Good twisty tale handicapped by casting 16 October 2008
    ...elations, and so on. At the heart of the film is heiress Kimberley Prescott (Anne Baxter), startled to be confronted by Williams (Richard Todd), purporting to be her la...   Read customer review

Anne Baxter - filmography


  • East Of Eden (3 discs) on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Jane Seymour,  Warren Oates,  Timothy Bottoms
    Director: Harvey Hart
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck considered East of Eden his quintessential novel. At more than six hours, this sumptuous 1981 production brings Steinbeck s bestseller to the screen more fully and faithfully than any other adaptation. Sweeping from Connecticut to California and from the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 48 members
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  • Jane Austen In Manhattan on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Robert Powell,  Anne Baxter,  Sean Young
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director James Ivory brings the intrigue and guile of rival theatre companies to life in JANE AUSTEN IN MANHATTAN. At Sotheby's auction house in New York, a theatre producer and an ambitious off-Broadway director buy an obscure childhood play written by Jane Austen. Robert Powell stars as Pierre, ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 139 members
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  • Walk On The Wild Side (1962)
    Starring: Laurence Harvey,  Capucine,  Jane Fonda
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At the Dolls House, a 1930's bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both the clients and for Jo, the Madame. Her comfortable if not tedious existence is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of 3 years before who has been searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 14 members
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  • Cimarron (1960)
    Starring: Glenn Ford,  Maria Schell,  Anne Baxter
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The Oklahoma land rush of 1889 provides the starting point for this western drama, based on a novel by Edna Ferber. Yancey Cravet (Glenn Ford) is an impulsive, short-fused cowboy who has married an immigrant woman, Sabra (Maria Schell). Together, Yancey and Sabra claim a homestead, and Yancey ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 1 member
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  • Chase A Crooked Shadow on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Richard Todd,  Anne Baxter,  Herbert Lomas
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Set in a seaside villa in Spain a young man arrives claiming to be the brother of the South African diamond heiress living there. He had been, supposedly, killed in a car crash but the local police find his papers in order and he seems to know the family history intimately...
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 190 members
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  • Three Violent People on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Anne Baxter,  Gilbert Roland
    Director: Rudolph Mate
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Returning from the Civil War, Colt Saunders returns to the family's cattle ranch with his new wife Lorna Hunter. All is unstable, however, as Lorna desperately tries to conceal her past and Colt strives to save his ranch from the tyrannical government.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 46 members
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  • The Ten Commandments on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  Edward G. Robinson,  Yul Brynner
    Director: Cecil B. DeMille
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,383 members
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  • The Blue Gardenia on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  Richard Conte,  Anne Sothern
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In the first of Fritz Lang's trio of newspaper films, Norah, a telephone operator, suspects that she may have committed a murder but is unable to remember. After receiving a "Dear Jane" letter from her boyfriend in the Korean War, Norah impetuously accepts a blind date with lecherous artist, Harry ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 184 members
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  • I Confess on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Montgomery Clift,  Anne Baxter
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Father Logan apparently a model of clerical piety, hears a killer's conffesion. Eyewitnesses point to a priest as the murderer and the sacrament penance forbids Logan to speak out - even in his own defense - when circumstancial evidence targets Logan as the prime suspect!
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 962 members
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  • All About Eve - Blu-ray (1950)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  George Sanders,  Celeste Holm
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Given that she throws tantrums, gets intoxicated, and pushes people away when she needs them the most, it's a wonder New York theater star Margo Channing has any true friends. But when Eve, Margo's young and innocent-seeming protegee, schemes to gain both the affection of Margo's friends and a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 13 members
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  • All About Eve on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  George Sanders,  Celeste Holm
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Given that she throws tantrums, gets intoxicated, and pushes people away when she needs them the most, it's a wonder New York theater star Margo Channing has any true friends. But when Eve, Margo's young and innocent-seeming protegee, schemes to gain both the affection of Margo's friends and a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 10,069 members
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  • The Razor's Edge on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Tyrone Power,  Gene Tierney,  John Payne
    Director: Edmund Goulding
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Narrated by on-screen observer Maugham (Herbert Marshall), this intriguing tale centers on a soul-searching World War I veteran (Tyrone Power) who finds he can not settle back into the world of the upper class. Shunning his planned marriage and career, he travels abroad to seek the meaning of life ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 65% from 244 members
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  • Guest in the House on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Ralph Bellamy,  Ruth Warrick,  Jerome Cowan
    Director: John Brahm
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Anne Baxter proves to be a wolf in sheep's clothing as a manipulative young woman who moves in with the family of her betrothed (Ralph Bellamy) who also happens to be her psychiatrist. She gradually turns the house full of happy, loving people against each other, and they are powerless to stop her.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 22 members
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  • The Fighting Sullivans on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Anne Baxter,  Thomas Mitchell,  Edward Ryan
    Director: Lloyd Bacon
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The wartime forerunner of the story told in Saving Private Ryan (1998) is this emotionally gripping depiction of the Sullivan boys of Waterloo, Iowa. Amid all the tales of personal tragedy in WW II, this one stands out. The five inseparable brothers enlisted together after Pearl Harbor and were all ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 149 members
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  • Crash Dive on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Tyrone Power,  Anne Baxter,  Dana Andrews
    Director: Archie Mayo
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this thrilling, Academy Award-winning WWII drama (Best Special Effects, 1943), Tyrone Power plays Navy Lieutenant Ward Stewart, a crewmember aboard a sub responsible for investigating a suspicious tanker in the Atlantic. Initially Stewart takes a liking to his commander - Dewey Connors (Dana ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 40 members
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  • The Magnificent Ambersons on DVD (1942)
    Starring: Joseph Cotten,  Delores Costello,  Anne Baxter
    Director: Orson Welles
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The sweeping saga of a prominent wealthy family's attempt to adapt to the changing times at the close of a decadent age. Though mutilated by studio executives before studio release, this film remains a masterpiece of directorial artistry, as Welles refined the techniques of shadow, quick-cutting, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,303 member
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Anne Baxter facts

5 most recent films

East Of Eden - 3.0 stars
Jane Austen In Manhattan - 1.5 stars
Stranger on the Run - 3.0 stars
Donald Sinden Icon Collection - Mix Me A Person - 3.5 stars
Walk On The Wild Side - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

All About Eve - 4.0 stars
The Magnificent Ambersons - 3.5 stars
The Ten Commandments - 3.5 stars
Chase A Crooked Shadow - 3.5 stars
I Confess - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Yellow Sky - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Cimarron - 2.0 stars
Walk On The Wild Side - 2.0 stars
Guest in the House - 2.0 stars
Three Violent People - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Lloyd Bridges - 4 times - show films
Hart Bochner - 4 times - show films
Warren Oates - 4 times - show films
Nellie Bellflower - 4 times - show films
Sam Bottoms - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Harvey Hart - 4 times - show films
Archie Mayo - 3 times - show films
Otto Preminger - 3 times - show films
John Brahm - 2 times - show films
William A. Wellman - 2 times - show films