Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goods, Kid . . . I know what you want, Bright Eyes. Come on, Baby Doll...
Your editorial of May 7, 1957, "Baby Doll," raises important problems for the Catholic and American Society. The analysis of the church-state situation therein does involve, however, some important assumptions which are misleading to the observer...
Variety reports that the Catholic Church has been able to make its disapproval of Baby Doll felt quite strongly throughout the country, limiting it to about 4,000 outlets, which Variety estimates is 25 percent of its potential audience. This pressure has been strongly applied through a number of channels including threatened long-term boycotts of individual movie houses and similar methods...
...interesting that the Church should let pass numerous cheap, fallacious films, and rise in arms against a film which has the immediate stigma of being "arty" and thus slightly distasteful to the mass of the moviegoing public. Whether one approves of the Kazan-Williams viewpoint or not, Baby Doll is as intensely serious and thoughtful a film as the American cinema has ever produced. A continuing condemnation of frank and disturbing films may be a further push along the road to a thoughtless mediocrity in the mass media...
...basic inconsistency in the stand of the American Catholics, because films from predominantly Roman Catholic Italy and France are considerably more frank about the darker side of life and less dogmatic about "sin" always leading to a bad end, the Legion of Decency's major objection to Baby Doll. In fact, Warner Brothers look to foreign showings of the film for a large part of its revenue...