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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.
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.
Jan 21, 2023 · Brooke Shields reveals she was the victim of a sexual assault in "Pretty Baby," a new documentary about her life premiering at Sundance Film Festival.
Apr 4, 2023 · "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields" — named after the controversial 1978 film in which Shields played a prostitute at the age of 11 — chronicles how the actor, model,...
Apr 3, 2023 · What pain and loss accompany it? And what happens to a young girl turned into an icon before even hitting puberty? These key questions are addressed in “Pretty Baby,” a thoughtful and moving...
Mar 30, 2023 · Shields asks her daughters if they have seen either of the films that catapulted her to teenage stardom: 1978’s Pretty Baby, about a child prostitute in turn-of-the-20th-century New...
Apr 4, 2023 · Brooke Shields is the subject of a new documentary on Hulu called "Pretty Baby" that has already become part of the larger conversation about the sexualization of children and young women.
Jan 19, 2023 · In the doc, directed by Lana Wilson and destined for Hulu, Shields talks about the sexualization of young girls, her relationship with her mother, and, for the first time, her experience with...
Apr 3, 2023 · In the 1978 Louis Malle drama “Pretty Baby,” Brooke Shields plays a child whose virginity is auctioned off in a New Orleans brothel. She was 11 at the time of filming.
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.
