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Apr 5, 1978 · Pretty Baby: Directed by Louis Malle. With Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye. A preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
- (13K)
- Drama
- Louis Malle
- 1978-04-05
Box office. $5.8 million. Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, written by Polly Platt, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon. Set in 1917, it focuses on a 12-year-old girl being raised in a brothel in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans by her prostitute mother.
Jan 21, 2023 · 1:20. In her heartbreaking new documentary, "Pretty Baby," Brooke Shields opens up for the first time about being raped in her 20s. In the film, which premiered Friday at Sundance Film...
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields: With Brooke Shields, Scaachi Koul, Isobel Coleman, Meenakshi Durham. Follows actor, model, and icon Brooke Shields as she becomes a woman who discovers her power after being a sexualized young girl. She shows the dangers and triumphs of gaining agency in a hostile world.
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- 2023-04-03
- Documentary, Biography
- 69
Apr 3, 2023 · Nell Minow April 03, 2023. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. “Five times a week?” an interviewer asks Princeton college freshman Brooke Shields and her mother about how often they call each other. “No, a day,” Brooke admits, starting with first thing after she wakes up.
Apr 3, 2023 · Directed by Lana Wilson. Documentary. 2h 18m. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. In the 1978 Louis Malle...
The movie opens with eleven-year-old Violet (played by a 12-year-old Brooke Shields) watching the birth of her baby brother. This echoes her own beginnings as the daughter of prostitute Hattie ( Susan Sarandon) and an unknown client. Violet is one of several children living at Madam Nell's ( Frances Faye) swanky New Orleans brothel in 1917.
