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FilmMovie ReviewsPretty Baby — 1978

Pretty Baby

1978

1h 50m

Drama

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Cast

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)Don Hood (Alfred Fuller)Pat Pierre Perkins (Ola Mae)Von Eric Thomas (Nonny)

Director

Louis Malle

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Synopsis

A preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

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