Baby Doll

Baby Doll is a 1956 film which tells the story of the childlike bride of a Mississippi cotton gin owner, who becomes the pawn in a battle between her husband and his enemy. It stars Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach and Mildred Dunnock.[1] This was Wallach's feature film debut.

The screenplay was written by Tennessee Williams and was based on his one act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. It was directed by Elia Kazan. The movie was filmed in Benoit, Mississippi in an antebellum home. The antebellum home is the only one in Mississippi's Bolivar County.