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Pretty Baby

1978, Movie, R, 109 mins

Pretty Baby: Review

PRETTY BABY
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Beautifully shot and subtly rendered, but too slowly told for its ambiguities to really be effective. Violet (Brooke Shields) lives with her mother, Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a prostitute in 1917 New Orleans. Her touching innocence seems unaffected even when, at the age of twelve, her virginity is auctioned off for the princely sum of $400. After leaving the brothel to live for a while with photographer E.J. Bellocq (a real-life figure), Violet is eventually reunited with her... read more leave a comment

Pretty Baby: Cast & Details

Year: 1978
Rated R
User Rating: (4 ratings)
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Cast
 Keith Carradine: E.J. Bellocq
Susan Sarandon: Hattie
Brooke Shields: Violet
Frances Faye: Mme. Nell Livingston
Antonio Fargas: Professor, Piano Player
Gerrit Graham: Highpockets

 

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Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon and Brooke Shields star in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978)...
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HOW BLUE WAS THE LAGOON?

Brooke Shields, she of Pretty Baby, Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan and, soon, Broadway's Chicago fame, will get the E! True Hollywood Story treatment on Sept. 11 at 8 pm/ET. Who do you think will set his TiVo first, Tom Cruise or Christopher Atkins? read more

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