1956 American dramatic black comedy film by Elia Kazan
For other uses, see Baby Doll (disambiguation).
Baby Doll
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Elia Kazan
Screenplay by
Tennessee Williams
Based on
27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Long Stay Cut Short, or The Unsatisfactory Supper 1946 plays by Tennessee Williams
Produced by
Elia Kazan
Tennessee Williams
Starring
Karl Malden
Carroll Baker
Eli Wallach
Cinematography
Boris Kaufman
Edited by
Gene Milford
Music by
Kenyon Hopkins
Production company
Newtown Productions
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release date
December 18, 1956 (1956-12-18)
Running time
114 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$2.3 million
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.[1]
^Nichols, Peter M. (ed.). The New York Times' Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made. pp. 66–7. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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