Baby Doll (1956)
December 29, 1956Release Date
Baby Doll (1956)
December 29, 1956Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Karl Malden
Archie Lee Meighan
Carroll Baker
Baby Doll Meighan
Eli Wallach
Silva Vacarro
Mildred Dunnock
Aunt Rose Comfort
Lonny Chapman
Rock
Eades Hogue
Town Marshal
Noah Williamson
Deputy
R.G. Armstrong
Townsman Sid
Madeleine Sherwood
Nurse in Doctor's Office
Rip Torn
The Dentist
Elia Kazan
Director
Paul Sylbert
Assistant Art Director
Tennessee Williams
Writer
Willis Hanchett
Hairstylist
Kenyon Hopkins
Composer
Forrest E. Johnston
Production Manager
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Baby Doll is a 1956 American black comedy film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Carroll Baker, Karl Malden and Eli Wallach. It was produced by Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and adapted by Williams from his own one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1955). The plot focuses on a feud between two rival cotton gin owners in rural Mississippi.
Filmed in Mississippi in late 1955, Baby Doll was released in December 1956. It provoked significant controversy, mostly because of its implied sexual themes, and the National Legion of Decency condemned the film.
Despite the moral objections, Baby Doll enjoyed a mostly favorable response from critics and earned numerous accolades, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Kazan and nominations for four other Golden Globe awards, four Academy Awards and four BAFTA Awards. Wallach won the BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer.
Baby Doll has been listed by some film scholars as among the most notorious films of the 1950s, and The New York Times included it in its Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.