Baby Doll
1956 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Baby Doll Meighan is a pretty, vacuous Southern 'white trash' gal who at 17 still sleeps in a crib and sucks her thumb. She has been married for two years to ineffectual, bigoted Archie Lee. The couple have not yet consummated their marriage because Archie Lee promised Baby Doll's dying father that he would not touch his daughter until she said she was "ready for marriage." He is frustrated by this strain and obliged to peek at his squirmy half-dressed child-bride through a hole in her bedroom wall. Archie Lee is further humiliated ind incensed by a flashy Sicilian business rival who has recently managed to force Archie Lee's decrepit cotton gin out of business.
Direction Elia Kazan
Cast Carroll Baker · Karl Malden · Eli Wallach · Mildred Dunnock · Lonny Chapman · Rip Torn
Soundtrack Kenyon Hopkins
Screenplay Tennessee Williams
Cinematography Boris Kaufman
Original title Baby Doll
6.8
2K votes (FilmAffinity)
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