Talk:Carroll Baker

"Karolina Piekarski"?
Where does this information stem from? Hollywood.com described her parents as William and Virginia Baker. Her birth name is listed as just "Carroll Baker" in several sourcess. IMDB had that too, but recently changed it to "Karolina", following our lead. NNDB recently created a profile for her, also using our info, and also putting her name as that. Does anyone have a good source or was this someone's idea of a joke? JackO&#39;Lantern 03:17, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yahoo Movies, which is also very reliable and mercifully, not fan submitted, does not list that as her birth name, and also says her parents were "William and Virginia Baker". I think we've been had... JackO&#39;Lantern 03:24, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you also saw that...I'm confused, too. Here's another site, which actually calls her Katolina Piekarski .  Weird... Michael 21:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * That last one (yours) is a "some guy's website" as far as I can see.... Well, see the Pol-American discussion page Mad Jack 21:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I know that. Michael 22:18, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * BTW - it is likely that her father changed the family name to Baker to assimilate in the US. (Marilu Henner's father did this too) Piekarski derives from a word piekarz or piekaz meaning baker in Polish.--68.127.163.235 06:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
 * What is this crap? No reliable source, why is it here? 66.81.244.167 (talk) 07:10, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

I've added further down that her birth name is Carol Baker and not Karolina Piekarski. I don't know where that came from but it's not correct and should be removed. She has no Polish ancestry. Her father's name was William Baker and her mother's name was Gertrude Duffy. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQ4G-1LQ

We need another link to another Carroll Baker
CARROLL BAKER. CANADA'S FIRST LADY OF COUNTRY

Carroll Baker was born March 4th in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia to parents Jordan {Gordon} and Ida {Iverna} Baker. She was the last child to be born and has three brothers, Fordan, Truman, and Willis, and two sisters, Barbara and Rosemary.

It was through one of their friends that she was encouraged to get up and sing at a local bar in Oakville with the band and the rest they say is history. She worked with the band on weekends and then was invited to do a live radio show at the Hayloft Jamboree in Markham, Ontario. It was there that a sculptor, George Petralia, heard her and convinced both she and her husband to record a song he had written. She travelled to Thunder Bay Ontario where she met Don Grashey who produced her records and managed her career from the beginning until the late nineteen eighties. Mr Grashey along with his partner Chuck Williams were the driving forces behind the lady with the big voice, filled with the emotion that only seasoned perfomers were supposed to have. Mr. Grashey would often comment that feeling was something that you either had or you didn't. It could not be learned he would say and boast that she had more feeling in her voice than anyone he had ever heard. Having produced many other artists and one as great as Loretta Lynn, he felt qualified to make that statement.  --Son of Maryann Rosso and Arthur Natale Squitti 22:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Picture
I just uploaded a picture which I now see is, ugh, disappointing. Stil, it is better than nothing. Will try to get a better one. --Mantanmoreland 16:47, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Renominating for GA
Sorry for ditching this article; graduate school will do these things! I think I have addressed all the issues in the aforementioned review, so it appears good to go to me. Thank you! Scottdoesntknow (talk) 07:19, 26 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The non-free image noted in 6A has been updated to PD. --Light show (talk) 08:05, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
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Karolina Piekarski
Her birth name is Carol Baker and she has no Polish ancestry. She is Irish, English and some German.

High school attended
It's not possible for Carroll Baker to have attended Greensburg-Salem High School, as it did not exist by that name until 1960. I happen to know this, as I attended Greensburg-Salem myself in the 1970's. I can only assume that she attended its predecessor, Greensburg High School. I do see that the information was cited as being from her autobiography. But both the 1959 (Greensburg) and 1960 (Greensburg-Salem) yearbooks can be viewed at the Classmates.com website, indicating that the high school's name was changed between those two years. Fgoron2000 (talk) 03:19, 7 September 2023 (UTC)