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Anne Baxter’s Milestones
| Portrayed Olga, Queen of the Cossacks, on ABC's "Batman" | |
| Portrayed the owner of the St Francis, in the ABC anthology series "Hotel"; replaced an ailing Bette Davis in the role | |
| Tested unsuccessfully for the leading role in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca" | |
| 1927 | Moved to Bronxville, New York with family at age four (date approximate) |
| 1934 | Began studying acting with Maria Ouspenskaya |
| 1936 | Broadway acting debut at age 13 in "Seen But Not Heard" |
| 1939 | Moved to Hollywood |
| 1940 | Acted in the "The Great Profile", starring John Barrymore |
| 1940 | Film acting debut in "20 Mule Team" |
| 1942 | Breakthrough role as Joseph Cotten's daughter in Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons" |
| 1943 | Received top billing for first time on Lewis Milestone's "North Star" |
| 1944 | Acted opposite future husband John Hodiak in "Sunday Dinner for a Soldier" |
| 1946 | Had one of her best screen roles as a dipsomaniac Sophie MacDonald in "The Razor's Edge"; won Best Supporting Actress Oscar |
| 1948 | Second film with Hodiak, "Homecoming" |
| 1950 | Played best-known role of Eve Harrington, a scheming aspiring actress who worms her way into the life of an aging Broadway star (Bette Davis) in the classic "All About Eve"; nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award |
| 1953 | Co-starred with Montgomery Clift in Alfred Hitchcock's "I Confess" |
| 1956 | Played Nefretiri, the Egyptian queen, in Cecil B DeMille's remake of "The Ten Commandments" |
| 1957 | Made early TV appearance in episode of "G.E. Theatre" (CBS) |
| 1957 | Returned to Broadway after absence of nearly 20 years in "The Square Root of Wonderful" |
| 1958 | Made London stage debut in "The Joshua Tree" |
| 1961 | Moved to Australia after second marriage to Randolph Gant |
| 1964 | Returned to the USA (date approximate) |
| 1967 | TV-movie debut, "Stranger on the Run" (NBC) |
| 1969 - 1970 | Had regular role as love interest for the title character during first season of "Marcus Welby, M.D." (ABC) |
| 1969 | Received an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for "The Bobby Currier Story" episode of "The Name of the Game" (NBC) |
| 1971 | Replaced Lauren Bacall in role of Margo Channing in the award-winning Broadway musical "Applause", based on "All About Eve"; Channing was Bette Davis' character in movie |
| 1973 | Played Margaret Schilling in "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation of "Lisa, Bright and Dark" (NBC) |
| 1976 | Published memoir of life in the Outback, "Intermission: A True Story" |
| 1976 | Starred in NBC miniseries "The Moneychangers" |
| 1980 | Made final feature, "Jane Austen in Manhattan", directed by James Ivory; cast included her daughter Katrina Hodiak |
| 1981 | Acted in the ABC miniseries remake of "East of Eden" |
| 1983 | Narrated the documentary "The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" |
| 1984 | Co-starred in the British TV-movie "The Masks of Death/Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death", starring Peter Cushing |
| 1985 | Appeared as herself in "The Thrill of Genius", a feature documentary about Alfred Hitchcok |
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