This 1956 drama, adapted by Tennessee Williams from his one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, stars Karl Malden as a cotton gin owner who has been married for two years – to his “Baby Doll” wife, played by Carroll Baker, who is just about to turn 20. That impending birthday marks the age at which, according to a prearranged agreement with her father, the cotton gin owner is allowed to finally consummate the marriage with his virgin bride, who has spent the marriage thus far te