Baby Doll

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 film, showing Elia Kazan astride a rocking horse, directing actor Eli Wallach. Warner Brothers stamp on the verso, crediting photographer Floyd McCarty.

Based on Tennessee Williams' 1946 one-act plays "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Unsatisfactory Supper." A spoiled, virginal teenage girl is caught between the unfulfilled passions of her middle-aged husband and his amorous business rival, a Sicilian with a monopoly on local cotton plantations.

Set in the fictional county of Tiger Tail, Mississippi, and shot on location in Benoit, Mississippi and Stockton, California.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear along the left edge.

[Book #158265]