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Baby Doll
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Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to sexually charged domestic dramas where social hypocrisy and emotional manipulation simmer beneath exaggerated Southern gothic behavior.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, darkly comic
- Payoff
- unease, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- desire, power, marriage, manipulation, social respectability
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, isolated rural cotton-mill community
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