She used everything as an instrument of seduction, including lewd suggestive dialogue to manipulate his emotions.The film, shot in 70 mm.widescreen color, received a phenomenal ten Academy Awards nominations and won seven major awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Scott refused to accept the honor), Best Director (Franklin J.Delighted with her arrival, he called for his wife Cora (Dorothy Cumming), a tough pioneer woman, o welcome his cousin ("Cora! Letty""s come!"), but she was less than thrilled to greet Letty, as she was tending to the hree young children...You""ve been there, right?...You sat on the edge of the bed, didn""t ya? You took off your shoes, put your finger between your toes and picked your feet.The young actress portraying precocious, 19 year-old Baby Doll, Carroll Baker (25 years old and in her second film) received a well-deserved Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role.