paddyfitz:

Happy 90th Birthday Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985)

I’m an actress, not a personality. It’s more successful to be a personality. But can you use it in every role? I don’t spill over into everything I do. I do what I do from inside someone else’s skin.

“You will be my wife. You will come to me whenever I call you, and I will enjoy that very much.  Whether you enjoy it or not is your own affair. But I think you will…”

Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments (1956)

Costume sketch for Anne Baxter’s Nefretiti in The Ten Commandments (1956)

The 1956 New York Premier of Cecil B. Demille’s The Ten Commandments. Arriving and walking the red carpet were Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Yvonne De Carlo, Cecil B. Demille, William Holden, John Wayne, Tony Cutis and Janet Leigh.

Orson Welles & Anne Baxter dancing at Cannes, 1953.

vintagegal:

Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille (1956)

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