Baby Doll

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of Marilyn Monroe (dressed as an "usherette") and a group of photographers at the 1956 film premiere, held at the Victoria Theater in New York, in benefit of the Actors Studio.

Monroe was a longtime supporter of the Actors Studio. She and her then-husband, Arthur Williams, were both in attendance at the premiere.

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.

10 x 8 inches. Nick at the bottom edge, else Near Fine.

[Book #171014]