Pretty Baby

• 7.021 Drama
• 1978-04-05
• 110 minutes mins

Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Louis Malle

Writer:

Polly Platt