The script for the film baby doll (1956)

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1] INTERIOR. DAY. A voluptuous girl, under twenty, is asleep on a bed, with the covers thrown off. This is Baby Doll Meighan, Archie LeeV virgin wife. A sound is disturbing her sleep, a steady sound, furtive as a mouse scratching, she stirs, it stops, she settles again, it starts again. Then she wa\es, without moving, her bac\ to that part of the wall from which the sound comes. 2] INTERIOR. DAY. CLOSE SHOT. BABY DOLL. She is a little frightened of what sounds li\e a mouse in the woodwork and still doesn't sound li\e a mouse in the woodwork Then a crafty loo\. 3] INTERIOR. DAY. FULL SHOT. She gets up, as the sound is continuing, and moves stealthily out of her room. 4] HALL. DAY. FULL SHOT. She comes out of her room and just as stealthily opens the door to an adjoining room and pee\s in. 5] CLOSE SHOT. BABY DOLL. Astonished and angry at what she sees.