Baby Doll (1956)

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7.3	IMDB rating

Directed by

Elia Kazan

Starring (View all)

Archie Lee Meighan

Baby Doll Meighan

Silva Vacarro

Aunt Rose Comfort

Rock

Eades Hogue

Town Marshal

Noah Williamson

Deputy

R.G. Armstrong

Townsman Sid

Written by

Tennessee Williams

(screenplay)

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Archie Lee Meighan, middle-aged cotton gin owner, can hardly wait for the 20th birthday of his childish bride Baby Doll, when he'll be allowed to consummate the marriage...he thinks. But rival owner Silva Vaccaro suspects Archie of burning his gin down, and takes an erotic form of Sicilian vengeance.

Release date : 18 December 1956

Drama (3), Revenge (3), Controversy (2), Confession (2), Ambiguity (2), Singer (2), Self Destructiveness (2), Bathtub (2), Immaturity (2), 1950s (2), 1956 (2), Sleeping In A Baby Crib (1), Based On Play (1), Pillow (1), Twenty Something (1), Desire (1), Senator (1), Restaurant (1), Birthday Present (1), Run Down House (1)

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"Controversial black comedy/melodrama by Elia Kazan, about a voluptuous child bride (Carroll Baker) caught between her frustrated husband (Karl Malden) and his devious rival (Eli Wallach). Time Magazine called it "just about the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited." After the Legion of Decency began boycotting the film - Cardinal Spellman declaring it "evil in concept" and "certain to exert an immoral and corrupting influence on those who see it" - the pr"

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" Baby Doll is another one of those movies that I can't believe was actually allowed to be released in the uptight, excessively moral 1950s. Because it was met with much fervor from anti-obscenity puritan groups, it wasn't really given a chance to be widely seen. But I think Elia Kazan captures an amazing energy and sexual tension between Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach. Karl Malden is also really good as an angry, humiliated and deranged husband. Baby Doll is weirdly similar to Lolita, as it's"