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Conversations with Classic Film Stars : Interviews From Hollywood's Golden Era by James Bawden & Ron Miller: "Anne Baxter was a prodigious acting talent from a prestige-heavy family—her grandfather was America’s leading architect, Frank Lloyd Wright—and always seemed destined for greatness. She began acting at age eleven and went on to study with Russian actress Maria Ouspenskaya and America’s Stella Adler. She made her Broadway debut in Seen, but Not Heard in her early teens and her movie debut at seventeen. While still a teen, she worked with Orson Welles in his 1942 masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons. Baxter will always be remembered as the conniving Eve Harrington in the 1950 All about Eve, for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, but she already had won a 1946 Supporting Actress Oscar as the sad alcoholic in The Razor’s Edge. Baxter also wrote a best-selling memoir, Intermission: A True Story (1976), which detailed her unsuccessful attempt to live in the Australian outback with second husband, Randolph Galt...."

 Baxter, a teen newcomer to Hollywood in 1940. Photo by Frank Powolny; courtesy of 20th Century-Fox.

"Yes. I was fourteen and was already too busty to play an eleven-year-old."