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Apr 5, 1978 · A film by Louis Malle about a preteen girl who lives and works as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917. Starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine and Susan Sarandon, the film explores the themes of innocence, sexuality and exploitation.
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- Louis Malle
- 1978-04-05
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.
Apr 29, 2023 · Movie scenes from the movie Pretty Baby. A 1978 film of Brooke Shields and Louis Malle. Discover the most famous scenes and watch a film resume.
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Directed and produced by. Louis Malle. Louis Malle's "Pretty Baby" is a pleasant surprise: After all the controversy and scandal surrounding its production, it turns out to be a good-hearted, good-looking, quietly elegiac movie.
Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he...
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- Brooke Shields
Internationally acclaimed director Louis Malle has taken a taboo subject - child prostitution - and has created in Pretty Baby a film of humanity and beauty.
In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she works. Photographer Ernest J. Bellocq has an attraction to Hallie and Violet and he is an habitué of the whorehouse.
