De-glamourized Baxter

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21959, 10 May 1941, Page 5

De-glamourized Baxter

Warner Baxter will make only two pictures a year hereafter. And he's through being a “glamour boy.” After two decades of romantic leads, a career that reached its peak when he played the dashing Cisco Kid in “In Old Arizona,” he is willing to play old men of 90, so long as they are interesting old men. Baxter announced his twin resolution on the "Adam Had Four Sons” set at Columbia where he played a man comfort? bly past middle age. As Adam Stoddard in this filming of the Charles Bonner novel, he plays a man who has four grown sons. Baxter’s 20-year struggle to bring up the boys is the essence of the highly emotional story, which also stars Ingrid Bergman, with Fay Wray, Susan Hayward 'and Helen Westley. Health was partly the reason for the actor’s decision. “I had a nervous breakdown shortly after I left Fox," he said. “For a while I thought I’d quit pictures altogether. I tried several hobbies. But they palled the minute I felt better. So I’m back in harness and intend to remain, only I’ll pick my parts and certainly avoid those where I’m required to make love to 16-year-old girls.” Baxter entered pictures in 1922 as Ethel Clayton’s leading man in “Her Own Money.” His proudest possession is the Academy Award he won in 1928 for his work in “In Old Arizona.”