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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.
Pretty Baby: Paramount Pictures: Louis Malle (director); Polly Platt (screenplay); Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye, Antonio Fargas, Diana Scarwid, Barbara Steele, Seret Scott, Gerrit Graham, Mae Mercer, Matthew Anton, Cheryl Markowitz, Susan Manskey, Laura Zimmerman, Miz Mary 7 Dot and the Kangaroo: Hoyts / Yoram ...
Another theatrical re-release occurred in 1981 under the title Holy Terror, which marketed the popularity of Shields after her performance in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978). While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic, and ...
It was “Pretty Baby,” the scandalous 1978 Louis Malle film, that changed the trajectory for Brooke Shields. It was a true-life drama, set in 1917 in the Storyville district of New Orleans ...
From left to right: Keith Carradine in 1978's Pretty Baby and a 2023 episode of the Fox series Accused. (Photo: Everett Collection, Steve Wilkie/FOX) (Everett Collection, Steve Wilkie/FOX)
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March 17, 1978: American Hot Wax: April 5, 1978: Pretty Baby: April 14, 1978: Joseph Andrews: British: co-produced by Woodfall Film Productions: June 16, 1978: Grease: co-production with Allan Carr Enterprises and Stigwood Group Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2020 June 28, 1978: Heaven Can Wait: Nominee for the Academy Award for ...
Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, [2] Shields gained widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes shot when she was 11 years old. [3]