Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Williams claims that his script is a study of Southern degeneracy and of the influence of foreign blood on a corrupt system. In point of fact, it is a telescoping of two earlier short plays--Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton and The Long Stay Cut Short--and, for Williams at least, is a second-rate work. The story concerns itself with Baby Doll, a delicious but nearly brainless child of twenty, who is legally though not in fact the wife of Archie Lee Meighan, a middle-aged owner of a broken-down cotton gin. Goaded beyond endurance...
...escaped yesterday morning, just before the Russian tanks closed in. My name's on the police list. In the name of Hungary, let us hide here!" By this time, everybody could see it was Sam Lawrence, editor in a publishing firm. He kept sneaking a look at the script he had in his hand, but he was grim about his part...
...stick to their regular-season script, the Panthers should have roared right back in the third quarter. Instead, Bowen fumbled the kickoff. Tech End Wesley Gibbs recovered on the Pitt 37. Until then, the Engineers had tried only one pass and scored a touchdown. They tried another and got a first down. A third got another first down. Then a pitchout to Rotenberry thoroughly flummoxed the Pitt defense, and the score went...
Playwright Nash, who also wrote the film script, tells a story "about droughts that happen to people," and about how the rains come to a dust-bowl daisy named Lizzie Curry (Katharine Hepburn). Lizzie is a girl who believes she is "as plain as old shoes," and that no man would want to have her underfoot. Nevertheless, she can't help wanting to be there. "Pride? I ran out of that a long time ago," she tells her father (Cameron Prud'Homme) and two brothers (Lloyd Bridges and Earl Holliman). "I just want to be a woman." They...
...Decency declared: "It dwells almost without variation or relief upon carnal suggestiveness."-The statement is true enough, but there is room for doubt that the carnality of the picture makes it unfit to be seen. The film was clearly intended-both by Playwright Tennessee Williams, who wrote the script, and by Elia Kazan, who directed it-to arouse disgust; not disgust with the film itself, but with the kind of people and the way of life it describes. To the extent that it succeeds, Baby Doll is an almost puritanically moral, work of art. And yet, as the script continues...