Carroll Baker: Difference between revisions

Baker was born and raised in [[Johnstown, Pennsylvania]] into a Catholic family, the daughter of Edith Gertrude ([[married and maiden names|née]] Duffy) and William Watson Baker, a traveling salesman.<ref name="yahoo"/> Baker is of Irish, English and German descent, (there is a rumour that she is of Polish descent but this is not accurate.which has given rise to a rumor that her birth name was Karolina Piekarski,{{efn|Dating as far back as April 2006, the [[Internet Movie Database]] listed Baker's alleged birth name as Karolina Piekarski.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com:80/name/nm0004647/bio |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060409081051/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004647/bio |work=Internet Movie Database |title=Biography for Carroll Baker |archive-date=April 9, 2006 |access-date=July 4, 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref>}} though this currently cannot be substantiated by known records.{{efn|Mentions of Baker having been born Karolina Piekarski date back to at least 2006 when the name appeared on the Internet Movie Database, and the claim has been republished in works such as ''Guia de Cine Clásico'' (2006; {{ISBN|978-8-498-21388-1}}), and ''Hollywood Winners & Losers A to Z'' (2008; {{ISBN|978-0-879-10351-4}}). Aside from these publications, however, no historical or census documentation corroborates the claim, and Baker herself has not publicly addressed it.}} Her parents separated when she was eight years old, and she moved with her mother and younger sister, Virginia, to [[Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="glamour">{{cite web |title=The Private Life and Times of Carroll Baker |url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show.php?id=18 |work=Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen |access-date=June 28, 2017}}</ref>