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Blacks in Tennessee Williams’ Works

3-12-2021 < Counter Currents 56 132 words
 



Archie Lee shares a bottle of liquor with one of his employees in Baby Doll (1956).


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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, but there is no major subplot involving them.






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