The script for the film baby doll (1956)

Record Details:

Title:
The script for the film baby doll
Date:
1956
Publisher:
New York : The New American Library
Volume:
The script for the film baby doll
Leaf #:
0003
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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s4«A46e*U*ty> Here's an elemental and powerful story, by Pulitzer Prize-winning Tennessee Williams, of love and desire, vengeance and violence, in a small South* era town. Baby Doll is the unforgettable drama of a pretty teen-age bride who marries an oafish, older man on the condition that it would be a marriage in name only until her twentieth birthday. Two nights before Baby Doll's birthday, her husband, goaded by her taunts about their poverty and her threats to leave him, sets fire to a competitor's factory. He thereby brings to his doorstep the enraged owner, a handsome young Sicilian, who seeks revenge and finds, instead . • . Baby Doll! This is the newest, important work from one of America's foremost authors, acclaimed by the critics in such glowing terms as: "The finest playwright now working in the American theatre . • . all flesh and blood." — Walter Kerr, Commonweal THIS IS A REPRINT OF THE SCRIPT FOR THE FILM PUBLISHED BY NEW DIRECTIONS IN A HARDCOVER EDITION UNDER THE TITLE, Baby Doll