The script for the film baby doll (1956)

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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 #:
000128
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:
August 08, 2024
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BABY DOLL! {Utters a high, childish giggle) archie: Well, is they? Anything else around here you wanta take away with yuh? baby doll: (Rising gaily) Why, yaiss, Archie Lee. Mr. Vacarro noticed the house was overloaded with furniture and he would like us to loan him five complete sets of it to archie: (Seizing nec\ of whiskey bottle) YOU SHUDDUP! I will git to you later. BABY DOLL: If you ever git to me it sure is going to be later, ha ha, much later, ha ha! She crosses to kitchen sin\, arranging her \iss-me-quic\s in the soap-splashed mirror, also regarding the two men behind her with bland satisfaction: her childish face, beaming, is distorted by the flawed glass. She sings or hums "Sweet and Lovely!' Archie Lee stands by table, breathing heavy as a walrus in labor. He loo\s from one to the other. Silva coolly pic\s up a big \itchen fyiife and lops off a hun\ of bread, then tosses kitchen \nife out of Archie Lee'* reach and then he dips bread in pot of greens. silva: Colored folks call this pot liquor. baby doll: I love pot liquor. silva: Me, too. baby doll: (Dreamily) Page 118