Died Today (December 12th): Anne Baxter (1923–1985)

Anne Baxter (1923–1985)

Born: May 7, 1923 in Michigan City, Indiana, USA
Died: December 12, 1985 (age 62) in New York City, New York, USA

Married to:
David Gutman Klee (30 January 1977 – 15 October 1977) (his death)
Beverly Randolph Galt (18 February 1960 – 29 January 1970) (divorced) (2 children)
John Hodiak (7 July 1946 – 27 January 1953) (divorced) (1 child)

[on All About Eve (1950)] I patterned Eve [Harrington] after the understudy I had in a Broadway play when I was 13. She actually threatened to finish me off. She was the bitchiest person I ever saw.

The Razor’s Edge (1946) contained my only great performance. When we shot that hospital scene in which “Sophie” loses her husband, child and everything else, I relived the death of my brother, whom I adored and who died at three. It gives me chills right now to think of…