Baby Doll - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Baby Doll"
Baby Doll (1956)
Timing: 1:54 (114 min)
Baby Doll - TMDB rating
7.022/10
138
Baby Doll - Kinopoisk rating
7.21/10
1301
Baby Doll - IMDB rating
7.3/10
8900

Film crew

Director

Producer

Editor

Art Direction

Richard Sylbert
Art Direction

Costume Design

Set Decoration

Gene Callahan
Set Decoration

Makeup Artist

Robert Jiras
Makeup Artist

Original Music Composer

Photo Kenyon Hopkins #73296
Kenyon Hopkins
Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

Photo Boris Kaufman #73297
Boris Kaufman
Director of Photography

Assistant Art Director

Photo Paul Sylbert #72802
Paul Sylbert
Assistant Art Director

Script Supervisor

Roberta Hodes
Script Supervisor

Hairstylist

Willis Hanchett
Hairstylist

Production Manager

Forrest E. Johnston
Production Manager

Screenplay

Assistant Director

Charles H. Maguire
Assistant Director

Sound

Edward J. Johnstone
Sound

Wardrobe Supervisor

Florence Transfield
Wardrobe Supervisor

Theatre Play

What's left behind the scenes

  • In the scene where Silva arrives at the burnt factory, Eli Wallach (1915-2014) found it difficult to convey the genuine feelings of his character, as he had no personal experience with such industries. He eventually imagined that a friend of his had burned down his own house with his wife and children inside, and only then was he able to deliver the required reaction.
  • Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), who wrote the screenplay, wanted to cast Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) in the lead role – at that time, she was desperately trying to improve her reputation as an actress and was very eager to get the part – but the film’s director, Elia Kazan (1909-2003), preferred to give the role to Carroll Baker, whom he knew from the Actors Studio in New York (a school for professional actors, theater directors, and playwrights). According to Baker's autobiography, the film's premiere was a charity event benefiting the Actors Studio, and Monroe herself worked as an usher at the premiere.
  • The film was released in 1956, and its controversial reception by the general public can be explained by the film's plot and the issues it raised. The Catholic Legion of Decency (an organization primarily dedicated to identifying and combating objectionable content in cinema, founded in Cincinnati, USA, in 1933) condemned the film for “suggestions of carnal pleasure.” Two days before the film’s release, Cardinal Francis Joseph Spellman (1889-1967) denounced it in a sermon at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York and called on Catholics to boycott it. Spellman’s call marked the beginning of the first nationwide boycott of a film by an American film company, orchestrated by the Legion of Decency. Almost 20 million Catholics across the country took to the streets in protest and picketed cinemas showing the film. 'Time' magazine contributed to the condemnation campaign, calling the film “the filthiest American-made movie ever to be commercially released.” Censors eventually allowed the film to be released, but only after nearly a year of heated debate.
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