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Though Baxley was mainly known for her stage work, she was also active in film and television. She also developed a one woman show during the early 1980s, first under the title Spooky Lady, and later changed to Wayward Wings. Warren's Profession (1982) and Major Barbara (1984) at Yale Repertory and starring in Sweet Bird of Youth (1984) at Portland State University. Her stage work in the 1980s was primarily in regional theatre, appearing in, among others, Mrs. Baxley appeared in regional productions, such as Taming of the Shrew (1962) at the University of Oklahoma The Misanthrope (1964) at the University of Chicago The Grass Harp (1966) at the Trinity Square in Providence, Rhode Island and The Merchant of Venice (1967) at the American Shakespeare Festival.īaxley's stage work in the 1970s included Me Jack, You Jill and Best Friend on Broadway in 1976 The Scarecrow (1975) at the Kennedy Center The Dream (1977) in Philadelphia Past Tense (1977) at Hartford Stage Are You Now or Have You Ever Been…? Off-Broadway and the National Tour of Zorba (1972-1973). Other New York appearances included Brecht on Brecht (1962) at the Theatre de Lys To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (1967) at the Cherry Lane Theatre and Measure for Measure (1966) at the Delacorte Theatre. In the 1960s Baxley continued to be active on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment (1960), the musical She Loves Me (1963), Chekov's The Three Sisters (1964), and Neil Simon's Plaza Suite (1968).

She starred in the National Tour of Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs in 1959.

Baxley also appeared in regional productions of Much Ado About Nothing (1955) in Chicago, and A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden (1957) in Cricket, New York. Other Broadway appearances during the 1950s include Tennessee Williams' Camino Real (1953), the sex comedy Oh Men! Oh Women! (1953), Baxley's personal favorite: Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach (1954), and William Inge's Bus Stop (1955), in which she replaced Kim Stanley as Cherie. In 1951, she starred in a short-lived comedy, Out West of Eight, and in 1952, she replaced Julie Harris as Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera. She moved to New York, where she trained with Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and with Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio.īaxley made her Broadway debut as Sybil in the Tallulah Bankhead Private Lives (1948), and followed that with Peter Pan (1950), in which she understudied Jean Arthur in the title role. She attended the University of the Pacific, where she acted in plays, and graduated with honors.
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