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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. Barbara Steele, Diana Scarwid, and Antonio Fargas appear in supporting roles.
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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Foreground (l to r): Diana Scarwid, Susan Sarandon, Keith Carradine and Brooke Shields star in "Pretty Baby." 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, a prostitute at the elegant home of Madame Nell, and her 12-year-old daughter Violet are the only ones awake with photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes by with his camera. He takes pictures of Hattie and he fascinates Violet.
A photographer in turn-of-the-century New Orleans who takes pictures in the red-light district, becomes bewitched by a prepubescent girl being raised in the brothel where her mother works.
When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with...
Internationally acclaimed director Louis Malle has taken a taboo subject - child prostitution - and has created in Pretty Baby a film of humanity and beauty. E.J. Bellocq (Keith Carradine) is a photographer obsessed with the prostitutes in New Orleans' red-light district.
Set in 1917 New Orleans and the infamous red light district of Storyville, Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978) centers on a beautiful prostitute Hattie (Susan Sarandon) and her 12-year-old "trick baby" daughter Violet (Brooke Shields).
Pretty Baby is a period drama film set in 1910 New Orleans, focusing on the life of Violet, a 12-year-old prostitute, played by Brooke Shields, who lives in a brothel with her mother, Hattie.