Baby Doll and Other Plays

Tennessee Williams's controversial Hollywood screenplay Baby Doll opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction as she has refused to consummate their marriage until the day of her twentieth birthday. Enter wily Sicilian Silva Vaccaro Archie's rival both in the cotton business and for the affections of the flirtatious Baby Doll and things reach breaking-point. This volume also contains Something Unspoken a brilliantly comic study of a wealthy manipulative Southern spinster and Summer and Smoke a sexually charged portrayal of Alma a sensitive unmarried minister's daughter and her childhood love the wild sensual doctor's son John.