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Baby Doll

Elia Kazan, 1956

Pretty Baby

Louis Malle, 1978

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"The dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited."--TIME MAGAZINE ON BABY DOLL

Second feature start time: 9:05 PM. Based on two Tennessee Williams one-act plays, Baby Doll is the story of a child bride (Carroll Baker) caught in the center of a scandal between her sexually frustrated husband (Karl Malden) and his business rival (Eli Wallach). (114 mins, 35mm)

Set in Storyville, New Orleans's red-light district, in 1917, Louis Malle's Pretty Baby follows the preteen daughter (Brooke Shields) of a prostitute (Susan Sarandon) who considers marriage to a photographer (Keith Carradine) when her mother abandons her. Malle's first American film was criticized for the positive depiction of childhood spent in a brothel. (114 mins., 35mm)

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