Baby Doll and Commonweal Criticism
Baby Doll and Commonweal Criticism
This chapter discusses the controversies surrounding the Baby Doll movie and billboard. The billboard was located a short walk from where the most powerful Catholic outside Rome could be found, Francis Cardinal Spellman, and showed movie starlet Carroll Baker wearing a sexy outfit and posing in an oversized crib while sucking her thumb. Spellman issued a condemning speech from the cathedral pulpit, while the editors and writers of the journal Commonweal published an article addressing a public that had grown tired of censors and restrictions. The latter lead to the formation of a Catholic critic and showed the possibility of judging culture without moralizing it.
Keywords: controversies, Baby Doll, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Carroll Baker, Commonweal, Catholic critic
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