Smoldering with sexual tension
“Baby Doll” is one of the raciest movies produced by Hollywood in the 1950s. The Catholic Legion of Decency gave the film a C rating, forcing many theaters to cancel their bookings, and Time Magazine stated that it was “just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited.” New York’s Cardinal Spellman declared the film “evil in concept… certain to exert an immoral and corrupting influence on those who see it.”<br /><br />Tennessee Williams wrote the screenplay based on two of his one-act plays, “Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton” and “The Long Stay Cut Short.” Archie Lee Meighan (Karl Malden) is a pathetic, near-bankrupt cotton-gin owner who married Baby Doll (Carroll Baker), an uneducated, naive 18-year-old, after promising her dying father that she would remain a virgin and continue to sleep alone in her crib until her 20th birthday, now only two days away. Constantly tormenting her frustrated husband about his appearance and bathing in front of him, Baby Doll escalates tension by openly flirting with Archie’s Italian business rival, Silva Vacarro (Eli Wallach).<br /><br />The three principals are all excellent. Malden is especially good at projecting frustration, perennially sweating, sneaking gulps of whiskey, and steaming under his neighbors’ open ridicule. Embodying jealousy and resentment, Malden operates on the same level throughout, glaring, shouting at the top of his lungs, wildly racing up and down staircases.<br /><br />Baker plays Baby Doll as a girl on the cusp of womanhood realizing that, because of an old promise, she will soon have to give herself up to a man she can’t stand. She openly flirts, wears little at home and dresses provocatively when she goes into town. She knows the power of her charms and uses them to drive men, especially Archie, crazy. Baker captures the animal attraction, naivete, vanity, contempt, and simmering passion of Baby Doll.<br /><br />Wallach, in his screen debut, plays the seductive threat to Archie’s relationship with Baby Doll. Physically, though, he doesn’t come across as a hot-blooded stud (Brando would have been better suited). In a lengthy scene on an outdoor swing, Vacarro elicits from Baby Doll clues about who may have set fire to his cotton gin. Wallach oozes charm, sidling up against Baby Doll, who can’t resist his sensuality and exotic looks, qualities Archie sorely lacks.<br /><br />Mildred Dunnock plays Aunt Rose Comfort, who lives with the unhappy couple and earns her keep by doing the cooking and keeping an eye on Baby Doll. She constantly incurs the wrath of Archie but seems to take his temper tantrums and outbursts in stride. As Dunnock flits around the cavernous house, every bit the poor relation dutifully trying to not to be a burden, her Aunt Rose comes across as another victim of the bleak atmosphere.<br /><br />Director Elia Kazan (“Streetcar Named Desire”) sets the film in a once grand, now decaying plantation mansion in rural Mississippi. His approach is at a fever pitch for the most part, with one major exception — the scene between Baby Doll and Vaccaro. In an atmosphere dripping with Southern Gothic, the film is an interesting companion piece to Kazan’s “Streetcar…,” though with far less subtlety. Malden’s histrionics are often very funny, as he tries to maintain his dignity as “lord of the manor” despite feeling the cuckold. Kazan frequently cuts to Archie’s idle cotton gin workers watching the melodrama between Baby Doll and Archie just as we, the audience, observe their odd relationship stoked by sexual frustration. Kazan used many of the people of Benoit, Mississippi, who provide local color.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the R-rated Blu-ray release include the featurette “Baby Doll: See No Evil” and the film’s theatrical trailer.<br /><br />Though there’s no nudity or sex depicted on screen, “Baby Doll” is definitely sexually charged. At one point, Archie notes, “There’s no torture on earth to equal the torture a cold woman inflicts on a man.” Despite the controversy, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Carroll Baker. Subversive for its time, “Baby Doll” features intense performances and an effective blend of melodrama and dark humor.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Times are tough for cotton miller Archie (Karl Malden), but at least he has his child bride (Carroll Baker), who'll soon be his wife in title and truth. The one-year agreement keeping them under the same roof -- yet never in the same bed -- is about to end. But a game with a sly business rival (Eli Wallach) is about to begin. In Baby Doll, as in A Streetcar Named Desire, director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground in depicting sexual situations -- earning condemnation from the then-powerful Legion of Decency. They earned laurels too: four Academy Award nominations, Golden Globe Awards for Baker and Kazan, and a British Academy Award for Wallach. Watch this funny, steamy classic that, as Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide proclaims, "still sizzles.".