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After her arrival in a few TV dramas and {$Robert Anderson}'s play {~All Summer Extended} (1955), she was noticed alongside Warner scouts and subsequently performers in {$James Dean's} vehicle {#Giant} (1956). Her success continued that in any case year when her place as the thumb-sucking wife in {#Baby Doll} (1956) earned her an Academy Confer nomination for Best Actress. She also delivered an model chief display in gaffer {$Irving Rapper}'s {#The Miracle} (1959). With the sensation of {$Marilyn Monroe}, Hollywood started looking in place of other {$Monroe} "types" and producers began grooming {$Baker} for the role, as is evident from her duty in such films as {#The Carpetbaggers} (1964); in 1965, she played the doomed title task in the film {#Harlow}, another strive to lob her in the {$Monroe} mold.

In any case, she not in a million years caught on with American audiences; in the unpunctual 60s, she moved to Italy and began appearing in Italian productions. In 1977 she made her London stage initiation in {$W. Somerset Maugham}'s {#Teem}, then made a scarcely any Hollywood and UK pictures in the late 70s and 80s, as incredibly as putting in a "ham" appearance in {#Andy Warhol's Bad} (1977) and a more straightlaced role as the mother of {$Dorothy Stratten} in {#Unparalleled 80).