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    Baby Doll (1956) [Re-UP]

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    Baby Doll (1956) [Re-UP]

    Baby Doll (1956)
    DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:54:43 | 5,38 Gb
    Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
    Genre: Drama

    Living in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, middle aged Archie Lee Meighan and nineteen year old "Baby Doll" Meighan née McCargo have been married for close to two years. Their marriage is not based on love, but each getting what they want from the other. Their marriage agreement has them consummating their marriage on her twentieth birthday, which is in three days, the act to which Baby Doll is not really looking forward. But she does taunt him and other men with her overt "baby doll" sexuality, the baby doll aspect which she fosters by sleeping in their house's nursery in a crib. Baby Doll's now deceased father allowed the marriage on the stipulation that Archie Lee provide Baby Doll financial security as displayed by the most resplendent house in the south. They currently live in a dilapidated mansion with her Aunt Rose Comfort, and although Archie Lee is making some renovations on it…

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    You know those celebrities who are famous simply for being famous, not for having actually done anything? That's the way I think of the 1956 release "Baby Doll," a film more well known for its risqué notoriety than for its character depth or its rather slim story line.

    Still, "Baby Doll" continues to fascinate audiences, and why shouldn't it? Tennessee Williams ("The Glass Menagerie," "A Streetcar Named Desire"), one of America's preeminent dramatists, wrote the story; and Elia Kazan ("A Streetcar Named Desire," "On the Waterfront," "East of Eden"), one of Hollywood's preeminent filmmakers, directed it. Williams and Kazan had collaborated earlier on "Streetcar," so it was cinch the pair were not going to make a bad film. Instead, they took a slender idea, added humor and strong emotional appeal, and created a typically compelling Williams-Kazan product. Nevertheless, like a lot of Williams' work, there is less to the affair than meets the eye.

    Baby Doll (1956) [Re-UP]

    You could always count on Tennessee Williams to create sleazy Southern characters, and in "Baby Doll" he outdoes himself, albeit it mostly for comical purposes. At the center of it all is Baby Doll Meighan (Carroll Baker), an immature, seemingly naive, perhaps not-too-bright, but extremely sexy teenager, married almost exactly one year to a middle-aged leach, Archie Lee Meighan (Karl Malden), with whom she has never been to bed. Before their wedding they made an agreement: He would provide her with the finest house in the county, and she would allow him to sleep with her one year hence. At the stroke of midnight as the story opens, the one year will be up.

    Baby Doll (1956) [Re-UP]

    The townsfolk know about the situation and never cease to tease Archie about it.

    I love this stuff; it's remarkably silly, yet the actors play it so straight you'd think it was "Hamlet." How sordid is the story? Baby Doll sleeps alone in a baby crib in the nursery, sucking her thumb and wearing only a short nightie; and Archie takes to spying on her through a hole in the adjoining wall. The nightgown became so famous, people still call them "baby dolls."

    Baby Doll (1956) [Re-UP]

    The house Archie provides for his wife was, indeed, a fine plantation estate at one time; like about a hundred years before. But at the time of the story, it is a decrepit, run-down old place, with the plaster peeling off the walls and the attic caving in. Archie is in financial ruin since his cotton gin stopped getting business, and at the moment the moving vans are removing the last articles of furniture from the place. Baby Doll is not pleased, and she still won't let Archie touch her. Archie's only solace is in a bottle.

    Enter the story's third main character, Silva Vacarro (Eli Wallach in his screen debut), a Sicilian newcomer who has cornered the county's cotton-gin commerce. The old-timers in the county dislike and distrust him. No one is unhappy when Archie secretly sets fire to Vacarro's cotton gin, since Vacarro drove almost everybody in the county out of business. Vacarro is sure Archie did it, and, seeing that no one is going to help him, sets out for personal revenge. He determines to get Baby Doll to sign an affidavit saying her husband set the fire, and in the process he isn't disinclined to seduce her as well.

    Baby Doll (1956) [Re-UP]

    The filmmakers play the whole thing so melodramatically, yet so seriously, it comes off as highly amusing, nearly black comedy if you will. It's like Tennessee Williams poking fun at Tennessee Williams. "I wouldn't dream of eating a nut which a man had cracked in his mouth," says Baby Doll to Vacarro when they are alone. "You've got many refinements," he replies.

    The longest sequence in the film is the afternoon seduction. Vacarro intends nothing more than to get Baby Doll to sign a paper implicating Archie in the arson, but it develops into something more, and it's not exactly Vacarro who does the seducing. Yet it's all handled so discreetly that you wouldn't think anything had happened. In the accompanying featurette, the three principal actors are asked if they thought Vacarro and Baby Doll really slept together, and we get three different answers!

    Baby Doll (1956) [Re-UP]

    Ironically, while the film's implied sexual situations caused a sensation in 1956, the racial slurs and bigotry never seemed to raise an eyebrow. Different times, to be sure. And just how sensational was the movie back then? The Catholic League of Decency condemned it for its "carnal suggestiveness," with New York's Cardinal Spellman going so far as to say that any Catholic who saw the movie was committing a major sin worthy of possible excommunication. Can you imagine the publicity? In 1969 when the motion-picture ratings code re-rated the film, they unaccountably gave it an R rating, despite its having no actual sex, no nudity, no violence, and no profanity. That's how suggestive the ratings board thought the film was.

    Baby Doll (1956) [Re-UP]

    No, there was no beating Tennessee Williams for steamy, sleazy Southern sex. Then throw in more goofy characters like Aunt Rose Comfort (Mildred Dunnock), Baby Doll's aunt who lives with them, and Rock (Lonny Chapman), Vacarro's right-hand flunky, and you've got a worthy contender for the most-watchable soap-opera parody of all time. And while Malden and Wallach and Dunnock are good, it's Baker who steals the show with her coy, perhaps mock innocence, setting the two men in her life against one another.

    Baby Doll (1956) [Re-UP]

    Trivia: According to John Eastman in his book "Retakes" (Ballantine Books, New York, 1989), "an amused Eli Wallach repeated for years afterward his account of the house hallway scene, in which Baker kept on kissing him long after the camera had moved away." The filmmakers made the movie on location in Mississippi, and "the house in which most of the filming occurred was the 'old Burras Place,' which had been vacant for twenty-five years…. Kazan never rigidly plotted his scenes, preferring his cast to remain unaware of the camera; instead, he ordered his camera crew merely to follow the actors. He said he preferred this film to his much more acclaimed 'A Streetcar Named Desire.'"
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