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Baby Doll

Elia Kazan (USA:1956; PG; 115min)

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Thu 21 November // 19:30 / Cinema

Tickets: Pay as you can: £7/5/3

Baby Doll   Elia Kazan (USA:1956; PG; 1:54)  Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5EXUkcLejY

Script by Tennessee Willliams: this black comedy, with its dark sexual themes, is rated one of the most notorious films of the ‘50s.  The film’s implicit challenge to the domesticated woman’s role and its explicit portrayal of female sexual desire provoked conservative fury. 

nb this may be of interest:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Baker