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Wrong!
The first original screenplay Tennessee Williams wrote, Baby Doll (1956), prompted Time magazine to write "[It is] just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited." Baby Doll, which told the story of two Southern rivals and a sensuous 19-year-old child bride, was also denounced by the Legion of Decency, an organization affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church which condemned the film for its "carnal suggestiveness". During the film's opening weekend, nearly 20 million Catholics picketed the movie, prompting more than three-fourths of the theatres showing it to pull the film. But in spite of the protests, enough people saw it for the baby-doll pajamas that Carroll Baker wore in the movie to create a new fashion.
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