FrameThrower · Actors · Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker
5 films · 279 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1956–1983
Born 28 May 1931 · Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Carroll Baker is a former American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, as a movie sex symbol. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. In the mid-1960s, as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker became a sex symbol after appearing as a hedonistic widow in The Carpetbaggers (1964). The film's producer, Joseph E. Levine, cast her in Sylvia before giving her the role of Jean Harlow in the biopic Harlow (1965).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 279 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1956–1983
- Golden Globe Awards
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame1960
- Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year1957
How their films are shot
Measured across 279 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Carroll takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night — the look of the work Carroll takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 279 frames from Carroll Baker's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.