Williams, Tennessee. Carbon copy of a typed five-page article Williams wrote about the censorship of Eliz Kazan's production of Williams' film script "Baby Doll," which combined and adapted two of his earlier one-act plays: "Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Long Stay Cut Short." Held together with a rusty staple (first page is loose) and with uncorrected typos. The erotic tragi-comedy, which came out in 1956 and starred Carroll Baker, was denounced from the pulpit by Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York and received a "Condemned" rating from the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency. Williams states that "Kazan has always shown a temperate attitude toward the rules of Hollywood's Production Code….On two occasions when we have worked together, on "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE", and now on "BABY DOLL," we have always been able to satisfy the demands of the Code and still live up to our own code as theater artists who put honesty first…." He challenges the "C" rating and writes at length his thoughts about censorship.
Estimated Value $300 - 500.
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