Miss Baxter, whose home was in Easton, Conn., is survived by three daughters. Anne Baxter (1923-1985), US actress, wearing a pink halterneck top in a studio portrait, against a blue background, circa 1945 | Photo: Getty Images, Baxter went to appear in some movies that saw minimum success at the box office. It seemed so quiettoo quiet. We saw her an hour a day and the rest of the time was spent with a tutor on our school work and exploring local cultural spots. Still, when Maginel informed me that her mother was in town and wanted to take us to dinner, I was extremely nervous. Anne was signed up by 20th Century Fox for a seven year contract in February, 1940. Miss Baxter had a daughter, Toby, by her first husband, the late actor John Hodiak . [23] Maginel became a cloistered Catholic nun, reportedly living in Rome.[24][25]. As luck would have it, I found her firstin the living room, bouncing up and down in great exuberance on the coffee table. "No. After that epic, job offers got fewer because she wasn't tied to a studio, instead opting to freelance her talents. I enjoyed the newness of each position and locale, but was frustrated by the lack of creativity. My mumbled replies must have had her wondering about the current state of scholarship programs, at the very least. She continued acting with the play Fools Paradise in 1971, TV movie Little Mo, the mini-series East of Eden 1981 and Hotel in 1983. Anne Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana, on May 7, 1923. She married Randolph Galt in 1960 and moved with him to a ranch in Australia. [20], In 1960, Baxter married her second husband Randolph Galt, an American owner of a cattle station at Gloucester near Sydney, where she was filming Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Miss Baxter, who was 62, died at Lenox Hill Hospital on Thursday, eight days after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while walking along Madison Avenue. Anne Baxter in The Durant Daily Democrat - Dec 13 1985 view all 16 Immediate Family Private spouse Private spouse David Klee husband John Hodiak ex-husband Katrina Hodiak daughter Beverly Randolph Galt ex-husband Melissa Galt daughter Maginel Galt daughter David G Klee husband Catherine Dorothy Baxter mother Kenneth Stuart Baxter father Private Baxter left 20th Century Fox in 1953. [19] Princeton University Library has a collection of 175 letters by Baxter to Birdwell. It came as no surprise therefore that while this was her birthday partyshe had everything under control. Carefully she laid them out on the table and then spread the remainder of the deck before me. She was the daughter of a salesman, Kenneth Stuart Baxter, and his wife, Catherine Dorothy (Wright), who herself was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, the world-renowned architect. The next time I met Maginel's mother was marginally better. Michael Spound, who also stars in the ABC-TV series, said, I was very lucky to know her and I will miss her very much.. The only other film job Anne appeared in that year was in Swamp Water (1941). It seemed safer to just agree. Waist deep in water he got us all out and tossed all our soggy belongings with us. She made her stage debut at the tender age of thirteen with the murder mystery Seen But Not Heard in 1936. During the 1970s she appeared in the Broadway production Applause. We'd flopped on the couches in the great room, tossing about ideas of what to do when her mother happened to stroll in. In 1951, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the title role in All About Eve (1950). I shook my head in the negative and asked what was wrong. 52-year-old man killed in shooting on Baxter Avenue. She once said in an interview, "Acting is what I do. She has been married to Jeffrey Michael Lunore since 13 October 2004. At 16, Baxter screen-tested for the role of Mrs. DeWinter in Rebecca. I groaned in horror and set off to help Maginel locate her mother. In 1948 she acted in the popular film The Wells of Jericho and Luck of the Irish. [14], Baxter worked regularly in television in the 1960s. I couldn't see such a vibrant life force going out gradually. Studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck thought she was smart and not too sexy, Miss Baxter once recalled, and he tested 13 other actresses before casting her in The Razors Edge, for which she won the 1946 supporting-actre ss Oscar. Marketing Magician. Maginel clung tightly to her boyfriend, Harvey with one hand and to me with the other. Actress Anne Baxter won the plum role of Eve partly because she resembled Claudette Colbert, who'd originally been cast as Margo. At only 17 years of age, she was already in the kind of pictures that other starlets would have had to slave for years as an extra before landing a meaty role. We collect and tell stories of people from all around the world. You found David!". With the great reluctance of a sleeper being torn from an amazing dream, I stood at the door prepared to make my way back home. Before long, we were huddled on her bed, drinking hot chocolate laced with peppermint schnapps, looking through photo albums, giggling like girls having a pajama party and sharing woeful tales of our roommates. Maginel Galt is the great-granddaughter of legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright and daughter of Oscar-winning actress Anne Baxter (All About Eve). With a serious demeanor, I did as she asked and handed the deck back to her. A path that proved fortuitous in providing critical buying skills because essentially, if you ate it, drank it, slept on it, or wrote with it in a hotel, I bought it! I relocated to the East Coast for boarding school in Massachusetts. [16] The couple had one daughter, Katrina, born in 1951. The '50s saw the actress despite her impressive beginning suffer from lack of employment after leaving Twentieth Century Fox and choosing to work as a freelancer. Design an extraordinary life." Halfway there, motoring at a good clip they hit something in the water. Gave birth to her only child at age 33, a son Tobin Vonditter in September 1984. She married Randolph Galt in 1960 and moved with him to a ranch in Australia. They divorced in 1953. These special people from her past inspire Melissa because they earned respect for their creative genius and for doing what they loved. Her third marriage was with a stockbroker named David Gutman Klee on January 30, 1977 who he died suddenly nine months later. At that moment, Katrina blew into the room with her usual exuberance and with one quick glance announced, "Wonderful! The culture shock and even language differences, East to West, were startling, but I survived the three years and graduated with honors. I had to smile at that. I don't remember the exact moment in time that Maginel told me about her mother. Still, it gave me plenty of time to reminisce as I covered the miles. Anne Baxter died of a brain aneurysm on December 12, 1985 in New York City while walking down Madison Avenue. She attended the 'Brearley School' after her family moved to New York from Michigan when Anne was eleven. When Baxter was five, she appeared in a school play. She said she modeled the role on a bitchy understudy she had for her debut performance in the Broadway play Seen but Not Heard at the age of 13 and who had threatened to "finish her off. She played an old flame of Raymond Burr on his crime series Ironside. Anne was the daughter of Catherine Dorothy (Wright) and Kenneth Stuart Baxter, an executive with the Seagrams Distillery Company. Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. She was on stage with Hume Cronyn and Jessie Tandy with shows nightly and twice on Sunday. It wasn't likely that Entertainment Tonight would be pounding on my door asking for an insider story. Still, I didn't want her to realize just what a total failure and disappointment I would beno matter what the cards had said. Muluzi had two children from her marriage with Bakili Muluzi, namely Austin Atupele Muluzi and Esmie Atweni Muluzi Malisita. She appeared as one of the mystery guests on What's My Line? Of course I would!". Baxter was a Republican who was active in the campaigns of Thomas E. Dewey[26] and Dwight D. After the birth of their second daughter, Maginel, back in California, Galt unexpectedly announced that they were moving to a 4,452 hectare (11,000 acre) ranch south of Grants, New Mexico. get the rockstar team and back-end systems in place that make it easier for you to crush your to-conquer list.. "Make an exceptional living. ", I was overjoyed to find that she had been feeling the same waybut since Maginel was the type to suffer in silence, she would have just endured it in misery. Maginel's mother exclaimed as my roommate snorted indelicately, stuffing her dinner napkin into her mouth to smother the sound. I had never met Melissa, the second oldest daughter, until now, but I recognized her from Mag's photo album. Its my permanent, built-in cathedral.. Owning a town home in Birmingham, I moved back to Alabama for a design degree from Southern Institute, and worked full time for an architectural firm and Steelcase Dealership before segueing to a management position with a local fabric retailer. Starting work with a prominent furniture retailer, I soon realized that I could be of greater service and deliver a broader range of design options as an independent designer. I remember the tearful phone call asking if I'd seen the news, requesting that I not talk to any mediaand then begging me to come to her mother's home in Connecticut because she needed me. Anne Baxter. "Now?" These special people from her past inspire Melissa because they earned respect for their creative genius and for doing what they loved. She won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Emmy. He thought I was a librarian.. She smiled widely as she caught sight of me. Miss Baxter, whose home was in Easton, Conn., is survived by three daughters. On December 12, 1985, Anne died of a stroke in New York. We were an introspective group gathered in the living room that wintry evening. The last thing Maginel's mother predicted was that I would write a book one day. She had a way of scrutinizing everyone with her ice blue eyes and leaving you with the impression that she missed nothing. There was a question I really needed an answer toand I wanted her to take it seriously. It was while I was chatting comfortably with several guests that Mag suddenly raced up to me in a panic. Your Mom is Anne Baxter?!" Tough-love Business Coach. It was so very different from my last visit here. It seemedwrong somehow. Her next roles were in The Magnificent Ambersons directed by Orson Welles, Pied Piper in 1942 and the Technicolor film Crash Drive in 1943. During the summer of 1938 and 1939 she also appeared in various plays at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts. As everyone slowly woke up and set about searching the premises, I chose the office next to her bedroom. She was married to stockbroker David Klee, until his death. In 1942 Anne played Joseph Cotten's daughter, Lucy Morgan, in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). Mag giggled in her girlish way and playfully punched me in the arm. The grey powder clung to my fingertip with a rather unpleasant chalky sensation. 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