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Pretty Baby
In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.
1978 · Directed by Louis Malle · 110 min · Drama · 22 frames
Tagline
The image of an adult world seen through a child's eyes.
Crew
- Screenplay: Polly Platt
- Cinematography: Sven Nykvist
- Edited by: Suzanne Fenn
- Production design: Trevor Williams
- Produced by: Louis Malle
Cast
- Brooke Shields as Violet
- Keith Carradine as Bellocq
- Susan Sarandon as Hattie
- Frances Faye as Nell
- Antonio Fargas as Professor
- Matthew Anton as Red Top
- Diana Scarwid as Frieda
- Barbara Steele as Josephine
- Gerrit Graham as Highpockets
- Don Hood as Alfred Fuller
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $3,500,000
- Box office: $11,600,000
- Themes: virgin, prostitute, photographer, photography, brothel, new orleans, louisiana, loss of virginity, young prostitute, brothel madam, 1910s
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