Baby Doll / America, America ( Baby Doll / America America ) ( The Anatolian Smile )

Baby Doll / America, America (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Baby Doll / America America
Alternate Title: The Anatolian Smile
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
280 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1956 - 1963 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Elia Kazan

Written By:
Tennessee Williams
Elia Kazan

Actors:
Karl Malden ..... Archie Lee Meighan
Carroll Baker ..... Baby Doll Meighan
Eli Wallach ..... Silva Vacarro
Mildred Dunnock ..... Aunt Rose Comfort
Lonny Chapman ..... Rock
Eades Hogue ..... Town Marshal
Noah Williamson ..... Deputy
Stathis Giallelis ..... Stavros Topouzoglou
Frank Wolff ..... Vartan Damadian
Harry Davis ..... Isaac Topouzoglou
Elena Karam ..... Vasso Topouzoglou
Estelle Hemsley ..... Grandmother Topouzoglou
Gregory Rozakis ..... Hohannes Gardashian
Lou Antonio ..... Abdul
Salem Ludwig ..... Odysseus Topouzoglou
John Marley ..... Garabet
Joanna Frank ..... Vartuhi
Paul Mann ..... Aleko Sinnikoglou
Linda Marsh ..... Thomna Sinnikoglou
Katharine Balfour ..... Sophia Kebabian
Robert H. Harris ..... Aratoon Kebabian

Synopsis:

Baby Doll (1956)
Baby Doll Meighan is a pretty, vacuous Southern gal who at 19 still sleeps in a crib and sucks her thumb. She has been married for two years to ineffectual, bigoted Archie Lee. The couple have not yet consummated their marriage because Archie Lee promised Baby Doll's dying father that he would not touch his daughter until she said she was 'ready for marriage.' He is frustrated by this strain and obliged to peek at his squirmy half-dressed child-bride through a hole in her bedroom wall. Archie Lee is further humiliated ind incensed by a flashy Sicilian business rival who has recently managed to force Archie Lee's decrepit cotton gin out of business. One night in a fit of desperation and frustration, Archie Lee burns down his rival's cotton gin. The rest of the story describes the Sicilian's revenge as he blatantly pursues and seduces a distraught but sensually aroused Baby Doll, and attempts to terrorize her into revealing Archie Lee's crime.

America America (1963)
Filmmaker Elia Kazan based America, America on the early life of his Greek-immigrant uncle. Stavros Topouzoglow is the young immigrant, whose starry-eyed impressions of America are soon compromised by reality. Despite the casual cruelties, betrayals, and career setbacks, Stavros forms strong and lasting friendships which help him weather the worst. An Oscar went to the painstakingly accurate art direction of Gene Callahan. Despite moments that are not suitable for children, America, America won a rare 'bell-ringer' rating from the high-school oriented {~Scholastic} magazines back in 1963; in the years since, it has become a stalwart of the American Movie Classics cable service.

Baby Doll (1956)
Living in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, middle aged Archie Lee Meighan and nineteen year old 'Baby Doll' Meighan née McCargo have been married for close to two years. Their marriage is not based on love, but each getting what they want from the other. Their marriage agreement has them consummating their marriage on her twentieth birthday, which is in three days, the act to which Baby Doll is not really looking forward. But she does taunt him and other men with her overt 'baby doll' sexuality, the baby doll aspect which she fosters by sleeping in their house's nursery in a crib. Baby Doll's now deceased father allowed the marriage on the stipulation that Archie Lee provide Baby Doll financial security as displayed by the most resplendent house in the south. They currently live in a dilapidated mansion with her Aunt Rose Comfort, and although Archie Lee is making some renovations on it, he no longer has the financial means to make it what Baby Doll wants as his cotton ginning competitor, the recently arrived Sicilian Silva Vacarro who runs the cotton plantation syndicate, has effectively put him and many others in the area out of business. The Meighan's fortunes may change after Vacarro's cotton gin burns down in a case of arson. Vacarro is certain Archie Lee is the arsonist. After meeting the Meighans and learning more about their marriage, Vacarro believes the way to get what he wants is through Baby Doll. This action begins the three way battle of wills between Vacarro, Archie Lee and Baby Doll.

America America (1963)
It is somewhere around 1900. We watch a young Greek man who lives a miserable life in Turkey selling ice in the town market. Although the Greeks are oppressed by the Turks, they refuse to leave the land of their ancestors. But our hero has a different opinion: sick of being humiliated in a daily basis, he decides to gather a little money and travel to Constantinoupolis. From there he will be able to fulfill his dream of 'escaping' to America...

Baby Doll (1956)
Baby Doll is the teenage wife of Archie Lee, a middle-aged cotton miller in the Deep South, whose inhibitions are aggravated by the arrival of a handsome owner of a cotton gin. From the play '27 Wagons Full of Cotton', by Tennessee Williams.

America America (1963)
The story of director Kazan's uncle, who grew up in a small village as a member of the Greek minority in Turkey in the end of the 19th century. When the oppression by the Turks increases, his father provides the young man with the family treasures and sends him to Constantinople. There he is supposed to make money and get the family to join him. But his own dream is different: America...

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