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## BABY DOLL AND THE PONDER HEART IN THE SUMMER OF 1955 Tennessee Williams submitted the movie script for Baby Doll to Elia Kazan, who had been urging the playwright to make a film of two early one-acts: 27 Wag01l8 Full of Cotton (1945), and The Long Stay Cut Short or The U1l8atisfactory Supper (1946). Although the plots of the two short plays are obviously incorporated into Baby Doll, the publisher's note which points out that the script is "quite different from the two short plays," is accurate. The similarities are basically those of plot; the differences, those of setti...'1g, of the character of Baby Doll, and of her situation. The plot of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton involves the burning of the Syndicate Plantation cotton gin by Jake Meighan and the delivery to him next day of twenty-seven wagons of cotton by the unfortunate superintendent of the Syndicate, Silva Vicarro. Vicarro, having determined from Jake's naIve wife, Flora, that it is Jake who has burnt down his gin, puts into practice the good-neighbor policy announced by Meighan. Vicarro's part in this reciprocal program involves raping and masochistically whipping Flora Meighan while her husband is ginning the twenty-seve

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Author

Winifred Dusenbury

Publisher

University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press Inc; Project Muse; University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (ISSN 0026-7694)

Published

1960

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)