Baby Doll & Tiger Tail

Tennessee Williams

Baby Doll & Tiger Tail

by Tennessee Williams

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.

Paperback(published May, 01 1991)

ISBN
9780811211673
Price US
13.95

Clothbound(published May, 01 1991)

ISBN
9780811211666
Price US
23.95
Page Count
224
Portrait of Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

America’s playwright