Barbara baxley biography

Barbara Baxley was born on January 1, 1923 in Stockton, California. She attended the University of the Pacific, where she acted in plays, and graduated with honors. She moved to New York, where she trained with Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and with Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio.

Baxley made her Broadway debut as Sybil in the Tallulah Bankhead Private Lives (1948), and followed that with Peter Pan (1950), in which she understudied Jean Arthur in the title role. In 1951, she starred in a short-lived comedy, Out West of Eight, and in 1952, she replaced Julie Harris as Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera. Other Broadway appearances during the 1950s include Tennessee Williams' Camino Real (1953), the sex comedy Oh Men! Oh Women! (1953), Baxley's personal favorite: Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach (1954), and William Inge's Bus Stop (1955), in which she replaced Kim Stanley as Cherie. Baxley also appeared in regional productions of Much Ado About Nothing (1955) in Chicago, and A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden (1957) in Cricket, New York. She starred in the National Tour of Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs in 1959.

In the 1960s Baxley continued to be active on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' Period of A

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Barbara Baxley

American actress and singer (1923–1990)

Barbara Angie Rose Baxley (January 1, 1923 – June 7, 1990) was an American actress and singer.

Early life

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Barbara Baxley acted for six years in productions of schools and Little Theaters before she had her first professional role.^[1]

Career

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A life member of the Actors Studio,^[2] Baxley also studied acting under the tutelage of Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City.^[3] Her first film was East of Eden, where she portrayed Adam Trask's obnoxious nurse at the end of the film.

Baxley had the challenging lead role in the 1960 film The Savage Eye, portraying a divorcee exploring Los Angeles, speaking in voice-over narration and dialog without delivering any directly spoken lines on screen. A. H. Weiler commented in a New York Times review that Baxley's acting possessed "restraint and sensitivity to register both the poignance and tragedy of her situation."^[4]

In 1961, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress (Dramatic) for her performance in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's comedy Period of Adjustment. She appeared in Chekhov's The Three Sisters and Neil Simon's Plaza Suite as we

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BornJanuary 1, 1923

DiedJune 7, 1990(67)