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Tessa Hughes-Freeland’s “Baby Doll” is a tiny slice of cinéma vérité from 1982 about the girls working the now defunct Baby Doll Lounge on Church and White St. in downtown Manhattan. It captures a moment before NYC got sanitized.
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- Directed by
- Tessa Hughes-Freeland
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Facts
January 7, 1982 · 3 min · Documentary
- Released
- January 7, 1982
- Runtime
- 3 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- English
- Made in
- United States
Tropes
Hollywood Kiss, Anti-Villain, Significant Wardrobe Shift +9
- Hollywood Kiss
- Anti-Villain
- Significant Wardrobe Shift
- Whip of Dominance
- Still Sucks Thumb
- Determinator
- Womanchild
- Catch Phrase
- Betty and Veronica
- Innocent Fanservice Girl
- Sexy Discretion Shot
- Never Learned to Read
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