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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.
Paul Jones recorded a German language vocal track, with lyrics written by Fred Oldörp, specifically for the German market. [18] This release, titled "Weine Nicht" ("Pretty Baby") was released as the B-side to "Sie" ("She") a month after the original version, [19] though it failed to chart. [18]
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]
The film opened on 188 screens on 6 October 1994 and was number one at the German box office. [3] It sold 1 million tickets in its first three weeks generating a gross of $10.3 million. [ 4 ] It remained in the top 10 for 24 weeks and went on to become the highest-grossing German film with admissions of over 6 million and a gross of over 60 ...
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The soundtrack to the film Pretty Baby used many local New Orleans musicians playing in the jazz, ragtime, and blues style of the city in the early 20th century. An LP album of the soundtrack, also entitled Pretty Baby, was issued in 1978 on ABC Records. The film is named after the song "Pretty Baby" by Tony Jackson.
"Tears of Sorrow," along with the Mary Wilson-led "Pretty Baby", are the only known recordings that feature the vocals of Betty McGlown. It would later appear on the 2000 box set The Supremes . The Supremes would later rerecord the song at Motown , but this version would go unreleased until the 2008 compilation album Let The Music Play: Supreme ...
Pretty Baby is a 1950 American comedy film starring Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott and Edmund Gwenn. A young woman's little white lie leads to unforeseen complications. Cary Grant aggressively promoted Drake, his wife, to Jack L. Warner for the lead in Pretty Baby. [2]