Diane Baker

It was directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, and adapted from the Thomas Harris 1988 novel of the same name.

The film stars Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony He- Heald, Brooke Smith, Diane Baker, and of course, Sir Anthony Hopkins.

The movie was made on a budget of just 19 million and made over 270 million at the box office, making back its budget in just the first week.

Silence of the Lambs has a Rotten Tomatoes Critics Tomato Meter score of 95% and an audience Popcorn Meter score also at 95.

That, of course, is the trailer of The Prize, based on the novel by Irving Wallace, which had only been published the year before, in 1962, I was reading.

And, of course, it stars Paul Newman and Ilky Summers, Elka Summers, and got Diane Baker in it.

You know, Diane Baker, for every blonde, there's a brunette.

So that...

Uh, Diane Baker, you might recognize, well, she's in a lot of movies, uh, I think of her as being Senator Ruth Martin, right, in Silence of the Lambs.

It is her daughter that's been kidnapped, and she has to go beg Hannibal Lecter to help her send this thing back to Baltimore.

So she's had a great career.

Oh, yes.

This is Diane Baker, who also incidentally was, uh, in that final episode of The Fugitive.

And by the way, she turns out to be a damn alien.

You know? This is James Daly from the very first episode.

Fire up a Colortini, 'cause we're about to, we're about to make some magic happen here, boy, let me tell you.

Here you go.

Stars in tonight's story: Gene Hackman, Mark Miller, Patricia Smith, John Randolph, Wayne Rogers, Anne Francis, Charles Drake, Dabney Coleman, Don Gordon, Russell Johnson, Harold Gould, Linda Day, Malcolm Atterbury, Ralph Bellamy, Marlin Mason, Murray Hamilton, Sally Kellerman, James Callahan, Alfred Ryder, Karen Black, Pat Hingle, Zina Bethune, Roger Perry, Shirley Knight, and special guest star Kevin McCarthy, Donna Winter, Larry Gates, Kent Smith, William Windom, Eduard Franz, with special guest star Michael Rennie, Barbara Hershey, Edward Asner, Diane Baker, J.D. Cannon, James Daly, John Milford, Roddy McDowell, Lawrence Naismith, Robert Walker, Lynn Loring, R.G. Armstrong, Jack Warden, Susan Oliver, David Scheiner, Murray Madison, James Whitmore, William Tallman, Milton Selzer, and special guest star Susan Strasberg, Peter Graves, Joanne Linville, John Ericson, Edward Andrews, Lynn McCarthy, and special guest star Suzanne Pleshette.

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The list of snowballs that reads out Kidnap Billy, Steal Brain's Plan, Bribe City Council, etc.

is a reference to a scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie, a 1964 film, where the titular character, played by Diane Baker, discovers Sean Connery's secrets by virtue of the fact that she finds a sheet of paper where he's written out all the secret things he has to do, which says, talk to mother, pay off businessman, etc., And the fact that the crucial item on both lists has to do with bribing somebody suggests that this might be a reference.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

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