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Pretty Baby (1978)

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Overview

Director:
Louis Malle
Writers:
Polly Platt (story)
Polly Platt (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
5 April 1978 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | History more
Tagline:
In 1917, in the red-light district of New Orleans, they called her "Pretty Baby" more
Plot:
A pre-teen girl grows up in a house of prostitution in the Storyville section of New Orleans in 1917. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
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User Comments:
Can you step outside of yourself for two hours? more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Brooke Shields ... Violet

Keith Carradine ... Bellocq

Susan Sarandon ... Hattie
Frances Faye ... Nell

Antonio Fargas ... Professor
Matthew Anton ... Red Top

Diana Scarwid ... Frieda
Barbara Steele ... Josephine
Seret Scott ... Flora
Cheryl Markowitz ... Gussie
Susan Manskey ... Fanny

Laura Zimmerman ... Agnes
Miz Mary ... Odette
Gerrit Graham ... Highpockets
Mae Mercer ... Mama Mosebery
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Niña bonita (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
Petite, La (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Güzel bebek (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Pequeña, La (Spain) [es]
Pretty Baby (Finland) [fi]
Pretty Baby (Italy) [it]
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Runtime:
110 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
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Trivia:
Dana Plato later claimed that she had been offered the lead role but her mother Kay had turned it down. more
Quotes:
Violet: You think of me as a child. more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Can you step outside of yourself for two hours?, 5 June 2006
Author: (futures@exis.net) from Ronn Ives/FUTURES Antiques, Norfolk, VA.

"Pretty Baby" (1978): Usually, when a controversial film comes out, the hubbub dies off in a few weeks. Later, people wonder why anyone got upset at all. In this case, I think the opposite is the case. There WAS some buzz about "Pretty Baby" when it premiered in 1978, but NOW? People would be killing the director, photographer, and screen writers in the names of Decency & Righteousness. It's a crazy world. Photographed by Sven Nykvist (Ingmar Bergman's photographer), Louis Malle directed this Polly Platt screenplay about the real life New Orleans documentary photographer E.J. Bellocq. He spent much of his career photographing those no one else would – the prostitutes of N.O. - and eventually became involved with a young girl (Brooke Shields) raised by her prostitute single mother (Susan Sarandon), to be a prostitute herself. There's an interesting push/pull to this film. It is SO beautifully photographed, and the prostitutes shown SO human, there is much warmth in the scenes, yet the facts remain difficult to accept – life was what it was, and they did what they had to do to survive in the turn-of-the-century South. This is NOT a story of tragedy (except in personal terms that have nothing to do with the profession). Most everyone went about their days in matter-of-fact acceptance of their "station" in life, and did not get ulcers. They had a roof, decent money, good food, servants, and a place to raise their "accident" children. "Pretty Baby" asks you to step outside your contemporary world and standards, and try, just for two hours, to see another point of view. It's an interesting challenge…perhaps more now than even a mere 30 years ago.

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