'Baby Doll' Baker Brutally
Treated in 'Something Wild'
"There is a lot of hot air blowing in from Texas!"
ad-libbed a TV weather-girl one night, when she dropped her cue-cards. It
abruptly curtailed her television career, a fortuitous alteration in many
respects: it led Carroll Baker to The Actors' Studio, motion picture stardom
and marriage to her director, Jack Garfein. Now, for their first professional
venture, they have made "Something Wild," which opens ..........
at the .......... Theatre, co-starring Ralph Meeker with Miss Baker and
released through United Artists.
Orginally accepted as a student at the Studio by Mr. Garfein, then on their
board of directors, Carroll studied under Lee Strasberg. She made her Broadway
debut in "Escapade" and then won the coveted role of Ruth in "All
Summer Long." He first film appearance was in "Giant," starring
Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and the late James Dean, who played her suitor.
Her performance marked her as star material and Elia Kazan asked her to
try for the leading role in Tennessee Williams' "Baby Doll." The
rest is screen history.
Subsequent starring roles for Carroll have been in "The Big Country,"
"The Miracle," "But Not For Me," "Bridge To The
Sun" and now her latest -- that of the girl who is brutally attacked
in a city park -- in "Something Wild."
(United Artists pressbook, 1961)