The script for the film baby doll (1956)

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BABY DOLL! Now I'm telling you that if the Ideal Pay As You Go Plan Furniture Company takes those five complete sets of furniture out of this house then the understanding between us will be canceled. Completely! 11] ARCHIE LEE. AT WINDOW. He is listening. We hear the distant sound of the Syndicate Cotton Gin. Li\e a gigantic distant throbbing heartbeat. Archie Lee puts the window down. He crosses to the mirror, dolefully considers his appearance. baby doll: Yeah, just look at yourself! You're not exactly a young girl's dream come true, Archie Lee Meighan. The phone rings downstairs. This sound is instantly followed by an outcry even higher and shriller. baby doll: Aunt Rose Comfort screams ev'ry time the phone rings. archie: What does she do a damn fool thing like that for? The phone rings again. Aunt Rose Comfort screams downstairs. The scream is followed by high breathless laughter. These sounds are downstairs. Archie Lee exits. baby doll: She says a phone ringing scares her. 12] HALL. Archie lumbers over to a staircase, much too grand for the present style of the house, and shouts down to the old woman below. archie: Aunt Rose Comfort, why don't you answer that phone? Page 10