BABY DOLL: THE SCRIPT OF THE FILM/SOMETHING UNSPOKEN SUDDENLY LAS T SUMMER

Tennessee Williams’s famous and 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 fluffy affections of flirtatious Baby Doll, and the steamy tension rapidly reaches breaking-point. ‘Make no mistake about it,’ wrote John Osborne, ‘this Baby Doll kid is a killer.’ This volume also contains Something Unspoken, a brilliantly comic study of a wealthy, manipulative Southern spinster, and Suddenly Last Summer, which tells the story of a man’s escape from his possessive mother – and her revenge.