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Margenalised Movie Baby Doll (1956)
Wednesday, 17th September 2008
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Mu-Meson Archives, 1st Floor, Cnr Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St, Annandale
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Baby Doll Meighan is a
pretty, vacuous Southern 'white trash ' gal who at 19 still sleeps in a crib and
sucks her thumb. She has been married for two years to ineffectual, bigoted
Archie Lee. The couple has not yet consummated their marriage because Archie
Lee promised Baby Doll's dying father that he would not touch his daughter
until she said she was "ready for marriage." He is frustrated by this
strain and obliged to peek at his squirmy half-dressed child-bride through a
hole in her bedroom wall. Archie Lee is further humiliated and incensed by a
flashy Sicilian business rival who has recently managed to force Archie Lee 's
decrepit cotton gin out of business. One night in a fit of desperation and
frustration, Archie Lee burns down his rival's cotton gin. The rest of the
story describes the Sicilian's revenge as he blatantly pursues and seduces a
distraught but sensually aroused Baby Doll, and attempts to terrorize her into
revealing Archie Lee's crime. Mu-Meson Archives Doors 7.30 for 8pm start $10 with
supper.
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