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Baby Doll

1956

Elia Kazan

Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock ...

6.7

1,696

Drama. Romance Baby Doll Meighan is a pretty, vacuous Southern 'white trash' gal who at 17 still sleeps in a crib and sucks her thumb. She has been married for two years to ineffectual, bigoted Archie Lee. The couple have not yet consummated their marriage because Archie Lee promised Baby Doll's dying father that he would not touch his daughter until she said she was "ready for marriage." He is frustrated by this strain and obliged to peek at his ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Baker’s performance captures all the animal charm, the naivete, the vanity, contempt and rising passion of Baby Doll."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Its erotic content now seems tame indeed; but the grotesquely caricatured performances and the evocation of the baking, dusty, indolent homestead make for witty and compelling viewing."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"One of Elia Kazan's most underrated movies"	POS

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