Day at Night: Anne Baxter, actress

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CUNY TV's restoring of the classic public television program, "Day at Night", which aired from 1973-1974. In this episode, host James Day talks with Anne Baxter. They discuss her early drive to become an actress, her equally early introduction to show business at the age of 13, the rapport between audience and performer and her experiences acting on Broadway and in feature films.
CUNY TV is proud to re-broadcast newly digitized episodes of DAY AT NIGHT, the popular public television series hosted by the late James Day. Day was a true pioneer of public television: co-founder of KQED in San Francisco, president of WNET upon the merger of National Educational Television (NET) and television station WNDT/Channel 13, and most recently, Chairman of the CUNY TV Advisory Board. The series features fascinating interviews with notable cultural and political figures conducted in the mid 1970's. (Taped:05/17/74)

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@hoyboys1000 2 жыл бұрын

I love her voice!

@probyful 2 жыл бұрын

Talent + class + elegance + beauty + sex-appeal + brains = ANNE BAXTER.

@trixiejoyce1516 4 жыл бұрын

She was elegance personified.

@jubalcalif9100 4 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed ! A very classy lady !

@robertaind677 4 жыл бұрын

I really loved her watching in Ten Commandments... She was gorgeous, looking very beautiful in this movie 😍

@murtazarizvi368 4 жыл бұрын

her acting was amazing in the razor's edge. but TTC will always be the personal favourite

@matthewakian2 3 жыл бұрын

she's got a great voice.

@Yobidefy 4 жыл бұрын

Love her as Neferteri :))

@bigbandsrock1 2 жыл бұрын

I adore her. Met her when I volunteered for The Thalians in the 1970’s. Have a photo with her which was taken of us there and still have a note she wrote to me. Such a brilliant beautiful human being! ❤️💐🌹

@edwardjames50 9 жыл бұрын

A brilliantly talented, enormously charming woman, who has never been properly appreciated. How sad that we lost her too soon.

@francisdubarry9748 9 жыл бұрын

+Rafael Storm Yes, 62 years old was so young. I was very sad when this happened in November 1985. By that time she was starring in the tv serie "Hotel" . It was a very good show.

@TempeBrennanBooth 8 жыл бұрын

+Francis Dubarry It's recently been released on DVD... and I just watched the episode in which Victoria Cabot dies. I couldn't stop crying...

@MasterJediDude 4 жыл бұрын

If this was 1974, she was roughly 49 years old. Her vibrance, beauty and voice make me love her so much. What a wonderful interview.

@m.e.d.7997 Жыл бұрын

She was 50 or 51

@3ofus135 3 ай бұрын

She was born in 1923.

@MasterJediDude 3 ай бұрын

I’m assuming that her husky voice is from smoking. It’s sexy in a way, like Kathleen Turner’s voice.

@joshuataylor6087 6 жыл бұрын

I watched the Ten Commandments as a child and the scene where she begged Moses to spare her child's life has been seared on my memory ever since. She was magnificent. The scene where she scorns Ramses was also spectacular.

@redbougainvilia2544 8 жыл бұрын

Such expressive eyes... I won't forget her role in Moses as Nefetiri...

@vijaykamalla3300 6 жыл бұрын

Tooo good actor

@Sophia-db8fu 6 жыл бұрын

The film was called the Ten Commandments

@aubreycaraballo8761 10 жыл бұрын

i hated her so much In All About Eve, that goes to show how amazing and convincing she was, Outstanding Actor

@probyful 11 жыл бұрын

"The Ten Commandments" is a MASTERPIECE. And yes, it has held up wonderfully well.

@franciscoalonso3786 2 жыл бұрын

She has one the most beautiful transatlantic accent without sounding fake and old-times

@TrangPakbaby 8 жыл бұрын

I could listen to her all day :-))

@jubalcalif9100 4 жыл бұрын

Me too !!

@eliothorowitz5627 2 жыл бұрын

The way she spoke of the joy of her career and her life....it always came through in her performances.

@georgecramsey 8 жыл бұрын

What a surprisingly delightful interview! Anne was so intelligent, strong, charming, and lovely--a beautiful human being!

@jubalcalif9100 4 жыл бұрын

Well said and well put ! I agree 100 per cent !

@anniemontgomery1090 8 жыл бұрын

She was wonderful! Loved watching her performances. She is truly missed.

@thanksimsuper 9 жыл бұрын

I'm in love. What a beauty, what a great actress.

@theogoldberg8919 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't imagine her that locacious and happy to live! Very childlike and smart.

@Rosannasfriend 8 жыл бұрын

They're doing The Ten Commandments tonight. She's always my favourite thing about it.

@jmajesty79 8 жыл бұрын

+Rosannasfriend Same here! lol

@xfiler-gl7nc 8 жыл бұрын

She was gave that movie life, lol. When she tells Moses she'd kill for him I die laughing. I know it's not suppose to be funny but she delivers it to well.

@saugusguy 3 жыл бұрын

Her voice is inimitable..shes amazing..purr like kitten

@danielrobinson9270 6 жыл бұрын

I'm such a fan and admirer of Ms. Baxter as an actress. I became acquainted with her in the mid 90's watching replays of Columbo in which she was in an episode as the guest star with Peter Falk and then years later on the AMC channel watching classic movies in All about Eve. She was brilliant and so convincing in both. It saddened me deeply when I looked on the internet a few years ago to see if she was still active and learned she passed on in the mid 80's unexpectedly. I was a child in the 80's and was too young to have known. So sad. May she rest in peace. What a brilliant actress.

@sabinowilliam2735 4 жыл бұрын

Great actress and great beauty. I always liked her.

@probyful 11 жыл бұрын

She wasn´t over the top in "The Ten Commandments". She was wonderful.

@danielstanwyck2812 2 жыл бұрын

really? i hadn't noticed

@probyful 2 жыл бұрын

@@danielstanwyck2812 Well, she was. That´s your problem.

@haintedhouse2990 2 жыл бұрын

most people in a Cecil B. DeMille film are over the top.

@probyful 2 жыл бұрын

@@haintedhouse2990 Rubbish.

@haintedhouse2990 2 жыл бұрын

@@probyful Betty Hutton in the Greatest Show on Earth - so over the top i thought she was gonna have a stroke.

@thunderbolt2145 4 жыл бұрын

I have always been in love with Anne since first seeing her in The Ten Commandments at about age 7. Of course it was her beauty that started it. Seeing how positive, relaxed, and enthusiastic she is here makes me love her even more. Her charm is infectious. And yes, she was still very physicaly attractive here in my opinion. She kind of reminds me of Brando and George C Scott in being somewhat disillusioned with labels and awards in her profession. Seemed like a very interesting, intelligent, and genuine woman. RIP 💜

@tallulahdarling 11 жыл бұрын

Fascinating woman and actress,

@jubalcalif9100 4 жыл бұрын

You speak the truth, Kemo Sabe !

@satnitcboy 7 жыл бұрын

This is a terrific interview. Mr. Day is acute and intelligent. Ms. Baxter is a revelation.

@AhmadAli-bs7ei 7 жыл бұрын

She was such a beautiful woman.. nowadays we see few women of such kind..Ten Commandments was her best film.

@truce1121 2 жыл бұрын

There is an episode of Colombo that she is in that I LOVE!!!!

@brookehanley3659 3 ай бұрын

I think that is my favorite ‘Columbo’ from January 1973

@metalmezzo83 3 жыл бұрын

I just love the way her voice sounded.

@janesmith572 4 жыл бұрын

she must have the best american accent l have ever heard ...from the uk

@elizabethgalligan1805 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing actress!☺️😍👍

@TobeyStarburst 5 жыл бұрын

So great in The Ten Commandments

@francishedges3903 3 жыл бұрын

This program was absolutely amazing. Thank you for posting it.😁

@chichillguy 12 жыл бұрын

she has the most marvelous voice and joy

@jubalcalif9100 4 жыл бұрын

I agree ! I adore her enthusiasm !

@protectorofillinois3 8 жыл бұрын

I love all of her movies, but my all-time favorite was The Ten Commandments ("Oh Moses, Moses, Moses" lol). She was also on the 80s tv show Hotel as Victoria Cabot, the owner of the hotel.

@ernestcastro6238 7 жыл бұрын

Anne Baxter was wonderful, thank you very much.

@jimbuchelt307 4 жыл бұрын

She’s very interactive and beautiful.

@albertojimenez4977 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing and so beautyful on Ten Commandments... Great Actress!

@kenb735 9 жыл бұрын

Chrissy Red - How could you think, even for a moment, that this authentic, genuine and heart-felt, intelligent interview with Ann Baxter could have come from any source other than her sheer joy of the life she's been able to lead?!!! So many actors of her age have become embittered and lost the kind of joue de vivre that she openly displays here.

@Themanwhocameback2 3 жыл бұрын

I loved her in "The Magnificent Ambersons" as Joseph Cotten's daughter. Also Monty Clift's love in Hitchcock's "I Confess" (1953).

@t4texastomjohnnycat978 4 жыл бұрын

Very pretty lady. R.I.P.

@gabiocampo6639 2 жыл бұрын

la recuerdo en los diez mandamientos, era muy bonita, antes las actrices eran pulidas y en verdad completas, voz música, danza, y elegancia☺️💕saludos de Cabos San Lucas

@chriscanale2977 3 жыл бұрын

Love Anne ,❤️

@theogoldberg8919 4 жыл бұрын

"Musical theatre is a real bitch" legendary hilarious quote 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@xbilion 2 жыл бұрын

C'est grâce au film des dix commandements que j'ai découvert cette talentueuse actrice.

@funnypanda99 11 жыл бұрын

She's most memorable to me in The Ten Commandments. I remember that time when I hated Nefretiri so bad...lol...Amazing actress I must say.

@shelovezcandy2852 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting to watch. She was quite a strong character.

@Dianaemanuel 11 жыл бұрын

What a charming, elegant lady. A lesson to us all in how to grow older gracefully.

@SM-gl8yo Ай бұрын

I love Anne Baxter. I have so much respect for her as an artist. Thank you for this video.

@junegiovanni6475 6 жыл бұрын

Anne Baxter was extraordinary in All about Eve, she was an incredible actress, it's unfortunate she left us too soon, she was far to young just 62 years old. We could have meny more years with her, and more movie roles and television shows. But we have so meny great movies and roles to remember her from.

@m.e.d.7997 Жыл бұрын

Stroke at 62 yes very young

@fabioantoniodejesussantos4018 5 жыл бұрын

A great actress.

@godschildyes 10 жыл бұрын

This was just so wonderful to watch! I love Anne and what she said about the love connection with your audience is sooo true!

@Davey74Boy 10 жыл бұрын

she was especially wonderful in the confrontational scene with Yul Brynner in the throne room after Moses and the Egyptians left Egypt.

@nelsonvalle2612 7 жыл бұрын

increíblemente una gran artista ayer vi la película Moisés y decide ver la biografia de las actrices, ya la había visto antes varias veces, pero decidí investigar y que asombrosa actriz bella, talentosa, y dinámica, increíble saber que una de sus hijas es hermana católica.

@alanlloyd450 10 жыл бұрын

Loved her in ten commandments

@deluxewaterless7229 9 ай бұрын

She was such a great actress with an aura of confidence, elegance and class.

@ruhphodastica 11 жыл бұрын

OMG i wish i could met her :[

@stardustring 3 жыл бұрын

Yes her and yul .

@theogoldberg8919 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoy present moment and don't disperse. Great advice for anyone in life and most of all anyone performing.

@catlover34fl 8 жыл бұрын

No one has mentioned this delightful black and white musical story (film) "You're My Everything" made in 1949. Set in the late 1920s, Anne Baxter was the perfect flapper, dancing the Charleston on a table in one of two silent films, and the other one resembling Clara Bow vamping her boy friend. She was really adorable in those scenes. I'm one of the few who appreciate the 1920s and early 1930s especially the orchestras and popular music from that era. I would like to see her scenes played again on You Tube from the movie "You're My Everything." Anne Baxter is really cute and a pleasure to watch her kicking up her heels. I guess most of the people commenting prefer her in more exotic roles such as The Ten Commandments. I loved her in You're My Everything.

@KeiraFreak7 4 жыл бұрын

I could listen to her voice for days!

@ALJarman1 5 жыл бұрын

I browsed all the comments below, and, of course, there were many well-deserved accolades for her best films, such as "All About Eve" and "The Razor's Edge"... and her riotous over-the-top Egyptian princess in "The Ten Commandments". But it's those little, and often not-so-memorable films that I remember her best for: Chase a Crooked Shadow, Carnival Story, Bedevilled, Yellow Sky, I Confess. I loved her because, no matter how trivial the script or how shallow the character assigned to her, she attacked every role as if it was the greatest part she'd ever been offered. She always gave 100% to the role, and she always lifted the film to a level it could never have achieved without her. Hollywood was lucky to have her!

@brookehanley3659 3 ай бұрын

She was beautiful in ‘The Razors Edge’

@RobertoLorenzPianist 10 жыл бұрын

Her performance in "The ten commandments" was good, but in "All about Eve" she was simply breathtaking!

@carlosburgardt7802 3 жыл бұрын

Para nosotros Eva al desnudo exelente trabajo hermosa actriz saludod desde Argentina.

@Roadsurfer2k11 3 жыл бұрын

Saw her tonight in Yellow Sky on starz westerns... cute as sweet apple pie. Rip

@Vixen781 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this great interview with a great actress. Loved it!

@batarya6188 4 жыл бұрын

great actress.

@wally1452 7 жыл бұрын

Anne Baxter has been one of the best actresses ever...what a screen presence she had. Even with the fine talent she had, it must be so that the actors natural ways and tendencies add to the performance too...she had beauty upon beauty, a smile that would make one weak; her voice I cannot explain but perhaps a bit as Pat (?)...darn, her last name does not come to mind (John Wayne's friend in, "In Harms Way?"...but she & Anne B. had a voice similar; just wonderfully unexplainable. Anne was co-star with Dana Andrews and had Walter Brennan in a 1941 film, "The Swamp," a dynamic and fine film, where it appears Anne is 18(?) Oh, that we had actors like that now...nobody stands out to me these days.

@jubalcalif9100 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Anne and fellow Oscar winner Patricia Neal remind me too of each other ! Thanks for your perceptive & insightful comment.

@2Uahoj 2 жыл бұрын

You can tell what a tough cookie she is. Necessary to be a Hollywood actress, especially at that time.

@joegoodman3911 3 жыл бұрын

She was a beautiful lady...

@martinschweisthal5560 2 жыл бұрын

I watch the Movie, the ten Commandments today on Blu ray, the Movie calls in German, die 10 Gebote. This lovely, intelligent Lady is brillant in this Movie and the whole Movie is brillant.

@sagitariussagitarius7684 2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE ANNE BAXTER TO HER ACT IN TEN COMMANDMENTS HER EMOTE TO HER ROLE AND HER CHARM BEAUTY ANY I LIKE HER

@francisdubarry9748 9 жыл бұрын

Anne Baxter was great in "The Ten Commandments" as"Nefretiri" and she was so beautiful too in this film. Her performance was excellent and she deserved an Oscar nomination and also deserved to win. She has been inmortalized in this great film which we can watch year after year on the ABC broadcast. Concerning "All About Eve", of course, she deserved her nomination as best actress for her performance in that movie. No matter Bette Davis was nominated also for the same category, Baxter also was in the same level in her performing. After all the movie was all about Eve, i'snt? Someone here asked about "Zelda", this was a guest performance Anne Baxter played in the 60's serie of "Batman". The episode title is "Zelda the Great" Baxter played "Zelda" in here she was an adorable magician. Later she appeared as guest star in another episode in this "Batman" series.

@mkedmusa9416 6 жыл бұрын

Francis Dubarry Nefretiti??? Really??? She is great but come on.....hollywood is a real trip into the wierd place.

@Marcoplo 10 жыл бұрын

28 mins is too short. I feel like a whole chapter of Human History lies within her mind. I could also listen to her for hours!

@lauroandrea3241 Жыл бұрын

Wow, she still leaps out of the screen. Such a woman!

@brunoantony3218 9 ай бұрын

That she does indeed.

@MurrayMelander 9 жыл бұрын

Look for the Banacek episode 'If Max Is So Smart. Why Doesn't He Tell Us Where He Is?' to see the incomparable Anne Baxter in a fun television performance.

@georgiannquinn2167 3 ай бұрын

Truly enjoyed this interview. What a remarkable personality. So incredibly candid and wholesome. May both she and her interviewer both R.I. P. They seemed to be good friends.

@Zva26 12 жыл бұрын

She was one of the greatest actresses of her time. I always preferred her as a blonde. She was able to play a plethora of characters. Her Sophie in "Razor's Edge" was well deserving of the Oscar, and her Eve in "All About Eve" was legendary. I found her a little "over the top" in "The Ten Commandments", but she was still thrilling in it. I saw her on the stage in the Noel Coward play to which she alludes here. It was in 1976 and she was onstage with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Great!

@josephramos980 3 жыл бұрын

RIP Ms. Anne Baxter💔😭💜

@catlover34fl 8 жыл бұрын

Of course, she was great in All About Eve and The Razor's Edge too. I loved her in those films as well.

@guitar5920 Жыл бұрын

What a doll and an immense talent!

@brunoantony3218 9 ай бұрын

Nobody ever mentions I Confess. To me, her best work. I cry every time watch her in it. So heartbreaking.

@Samalabear 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing in "The Razor's Edge." If her performance doesn't move you then you are lifeless. Just an incredible performance as Sophia McDonald. She was perfect in the scenes with Tyrone Power. And later she did another little gem, which can actually watch here on YT, "The Luck of the Irish." Love her in that movie, too. Again, a very touching performance.

@m.e.d.7997 Жыл бұрын

She was also stunningly beautiful in that role

@sweetdrreemz 4 жыл бұрын

Saw her first in, "The Razor's Edge", just saw her again in a few glimpses of, 'All About Eve'. I admit she commanded a certain beauty, a beautiful voice. I decided to look her up on wikipedia and come to find she died a few days before I was born. Being the age I am, 'mid 30's', and to know there are certain films of which none of the cast are alive anymore, leaves me with a bit of a sad feeling. Admiring some one and their work and knowing you weren't even alive at the same time... It's just a weird feeling I can't really describe at the moment. hmm..

@michaeltekulsky5665 7 жыл бұрын

what a charming and intelligent person.

@jubalcalif9100 4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree ! I enjoyed watching this interview so very much !

@poopypants814 5 жыл бұрын

she is so stunning here...and grand daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright on of my hero's in architecture

@rkmugen 4 жыл бұрын

There is only one woman alive today who reminds me of Anne Baxter. And she portrayed the Captain of the USS Voyager.

@diytom3448 2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!! Kate Mulgrew

@randydavisman 9 жыл бұрын

A granddaughter of architect, Frank Lloyd Wright...

@hetmanjz 7 жыл бұрын

Baxter is marvelous in one of William Wellman's very best films, "Yellow Sky" (1948), giving an emotionally nuanced and capably bad-ass reading of a relatively uncaricatured frontier woman, an exemplary depiction among Westerns of the pre-"revisionist" anti-Western era. Also a stunning film to look at, thanks to Joe MacDonald's rich cinematography.

@ginnylorenz5265 7 жыл бұрын

Anne Baxter. The real thing. Heartbreaking and magnificent in "Razor's Edge".

@tomislavcehajic9642 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but All about eve is one of best movie ever, best women cast ever Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter, that year is on other one movie of all time Sunset bulevard, and All about Eve have the best screenplay ever, i love both movies

@user-lo2vr7fe1m 2 жыл бұрын

Красавица. Очаровательная.

@cesarl4853 2 жыл бұрын

She was sooo hot during the ten commandments movie I love her

@VILA1963 3 жыл бұрын

Great interview! Thank you

@probyful 11 жыл бұрын

What are you saying ??? She looks fantastic !!! And she has a very young look here.

@Diane18 7 ай бұрын

I so loved her voice!!!!

@Whippets 2 жыл бұрын

So charming and vivacious.

@sweetbitter2 5 жыл бұрын

Great chemistry between the interviewer and Anne.

@oohyllab 9 жыл бұрын

This was fun to watch. Where do you people get all these awesome old footage. Love her!

@SBecktacular 5 жыл бұрын

So real, so confident, so sexy, so talented... one of THE BEST! Love you Anne 😘😘

@sunnyboy732 11 жыл бұрын

Very beautiful and very gifted and humble actress! I loved her in "Yellow Sky", "The Razor's Edge", "All about Eve", "Gardenia" and even the second-rate "The Get-On".

@ruhphodastica 12 жыл бұрын

IGosh i always totaly in love with her when i was a kid ,i wanted to be like her! she was wonderful in The ten commandments.