Tennessee Williams

Gap-toothed Blacks laughing at Archie Lee as Baby Doll berates him. by Andrew Hamilton IN A recent essay about playwright Tennessee Williams and Greek American director Elia Kazan’s flagrantly anti-Southern motion picture Baby Doll (1956) I observed in passing that Blacks are present as furniture,…

The 1956 premiere of playwright Tennessee Williams’ anti-Southern film Baby Doll. by Andrew Hamilton SOUTHERN playwright Tennessee Williams, “a descendant of hardy East Tennessee pioneer stock,” is considered, together with Irish American Eugene O’Neill, and Jewish Arthur Miller, to…