Although she never established a dominant screen persona, Anne Baxter proved a dedicated and reliable worker, making a string of good films that seldom showed her as other than intelligent and attractive. The polished performer began studying in earnest with Maria Ouspenskaya at age 11 and within two years made her debut on the Great White Way in "Seen But Not Heard" (1936). After several more Broadway turns, Hollywood beckoned. Baxter began her film career as the ingenue love interest in the above-average Western "Twenty Mule Team" (1940). A measure of just how impressive the actress was is
