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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.
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- Louis Malle
- 1978-04-05
Pretty Baby. (1978 film) 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.
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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.
Apr 6, 2018 · By Donald Liebenson. April 6, 2018. Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby, 1978. From Paramount/Everett Collection. There was no hiding Brooke Shields from the frenzy surrounding the 1978 film...
- Donald Liebenson
Overview. Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet.
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The pretty baby of the title is named Violet, and is played by Brooke Shields, as an extraordinarily beautiful child. Before anyone had seen "Pretty Baby," Malle was being accused of exploiting that fact.
