
Pretty Baby
The image of an adult world seen through a child's eyes.
In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.
- 6.9
- 1978
- Released
- 1h 50m

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
Gerrit Graham
Highpockets
Don Hood
Alfred Fuller
Seret Scott
Flora
Cheryl Markowitz
Gussie
Susan Manskey
Fanny
Laura Zimmerman
Agnes
Miz Mary
Odette
Mae Mercer
Mama Mosebery
Pat Perkins
Ola Mae
Von Eric Thomas
Nonny
Sasha Holliday
Justine
Lisa Shames
Antonia
Henry Braden
Harry
Patrick M. Burke
Fanny's Customer
C.C. Courtney
Naval Officer
Philip H. Sizeler
Senator
Don Lutenbacher
Violet's First Customer
Hobe May
Farmer
Stocker Fontelieu
Brothel Patron (uncredited)
Bill Holliday
Gussie's Client (uncredited)


Released
en
$3,500,000.00
$11,600,000.00
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- #prostitute
- #photographer
- #photography
- #brothel
- #new orleans, louisiana
- #loss of virginity
- #young prostitute
- #brothel madam
- #1910s
- #child prostitution
- #demeaning
- #disheartening
- #distressing
- #inflammatory
Reviews

So.... why one star? Because, honestly, it's boring. It kind of does to New Orleans' red-light district what Reds did to John Reed.... sucked all the excitement out of the story in an effort to make it artistic. It's well acted, but it's weak on plot, weak on story, weak on entertainment.... but, like Reds, it's one of those movies that you have to watch because 41 years after the fact it is st











