The script for the film baby doll (1956)

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BABY DOLL! Well, sure— after all what can you do with a bunch of unfurnished rooms. silva: Well, you could play hide-and-seek. baby doll: Not me. I'm not athletic. silva: I take it you've not had this place long, Mrs. Meighan. baby doll: No, we ain't had it long. silva: When I arrived in this county to take over the management of the Syndicate Plantation . . . {Chops at grass with crop) this place was empty. I was told it was haunted. Then you all moved in. baby doll: Yes it was haunted, and that's why Archie Lee bought it for almost nothing. {She pauses in the sun as if dazed) Sometimes I don't know where to go, what to do. silva: That's not uncommon. People enter this world without instruction. baby doll: {She's lost him again) Huh? silva: I said people come into this world without instructions of where to go, what to do, so they wander a little and . . • Aunt Rose sings rather sweetly from the \itchen, wind blows an Aeolian refrain. then go away. ... _ & J Page S3