| Baby Doll & Tiger Tail: A Screenplay and Play by Tennessee Williams Contributor(s): Williams, Tennessee (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811211673 ISBN-13: 9780811211673 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - General - Drama |
| Dewey: 791.437 |
| LCCN: 916848 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.39" W x 8.04" (0.54 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1956, Time magazine called Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited. The taut, vivid drama of a voluptuous child-bridge, who refuses to consummate her marriage to an older, down-on-his-luck cotton-gin owner in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi until she is ready, has gained in humor and pathos over the years as society has caught up with the author's savagely honest view of bigotry and lust in the rural South. But Tennessee Williams was first and foremost a writer for the stage, and this reissue of his original screenplay for the Elia Kazan movie of Baby Doll is now accompanied by the script of the full-length stage play, Tiger Tail, developed from that screenplay during the '70s. The text, which incorporates the author's final revisions, records the play as it was produced at the Hippodrome Theatre Workshop in Gainesville, Florida, in 1979. |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams, Tennessee: - Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo. |