Brooke Shields Pretty Baby 1978

Brooke Shields Pretty Baby 1978
Published November 22, 2021 1:14pm EST

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Brooke Shields is no stranger to controversy.
At just 11 months old, she starred in a soap advert and her career quickly blossomed as a child star. But at age 11, she famously played a child prostitute in 1978’s "Pretty Baby" where she was filmed naked. In the movie, Shields’ character grows up in a brothel and is auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Previously as a 10-year-old, her mother Teri Shields, who also served as the star's manager, commissioned photographer Gary Gross to shoot nude pics of Shields for the Playboy publication Sugar’n’Spice.
The momager faced backlash for allowing her daughter to take on such racy roles, but it wouldn’t be the last time.

American actress Brooke Shields in 'Pretty Baby,' directed by Louis Malle, 1978.
(Paramount Pictures/Fotos International/Getty Images)
Would Shields, now a mother of two daughters, allow her children to appear in a film like "Pretty Baby"? It depends.
"In 1977, probably," the actress told The Guardian on Monday. "Now, I don’t know if I would. It was a different era."
The 56-year-old told the outlet she’s proud of the film and even wrote a thesis on director Louis Malle’s work in college. Like her mother, Shields grew up with a deep appreciation for European arthouse films.
"I just don’t know if you could make that movie today," Shields explained. "I guess you’d have to have an actress who was older, playing younger. I’m not quite sure what the rules are now. But I also wasn’t personally scathed by it."

Brooke Shields and ‘Blue Lagoon’ co-star Christopher Atkins in New York City, circa 1980.
(Sonia Moskowitz/IMAGES/Getty Images)
Shields also didn’t feel it was damaging to be exposed to those themes at such a young age.
"Not when you grow up in New York," the star clarified. "I mean, it just takes five minutes to see – on the old 42nd Street – what prostitution was. And also I was very sequestered from all of it in my real life. I was a virgin till I was 22, so it was all pretend in my mind. I was an actress. I didn’t suffer privately about it."
"… There’s something incredibly seductive about youth … I think it just has different forms and it’s how you survive it, and whether you choose to be victimized by it," said Shields. "It’s not in my nature to be a victim."
Shields noted that she never "had a #MeToo moment" and her mother would even accompany her to Studio 54. The actress described how she grew up in New York – not in Hollywood – and she attended normal schools.

Portrait of teenaged American actress and model Brooke Shields with her mother (and manager) Teri Shields (1933 - 2012), New York, New York, 1978.
(Robert R McElroy/Getty Images)
"I could just dance and have a really good time, and she would make sure I got home," said Shields. "I had school the next day. She protected me, like, nobody got near me. [She] had her issues, but I felt loved by her."
A few years later, Shields starred in 1980’s "The Blue Lagoon" where she and her on-screen love interest Christopher Atkins experience love, sex and puberty on an island. Shields was 14 and spent most of her time naked, the outlet noted.
While Shields had a body double for the sex scenes, the star previously described in her memoir how she and Atkins, who was 18 at the time, were being encouraged to fall in love for real.
But looking back, Shields said she has no regrets about being exposed to fame as a child star. And she insisted the matriarch was never pushy.

Teri Shields and Brooke Shields at Studio 54 in New York City.
(Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
"She had this baby that looked this way, and that’s how we survived," she said about her mother recognizing her potential so early. "My looking a certain way paid the bills. I just loved the approval. And I loved working and I loved being on a set. We had fun, we traveled everywhere. So it wasn’t as if I felt the responsibility as much as, ‘Oh my God, we get to get a car. Oh, we bought a house. We bought another house.’ Like, if I do this, we get this. That’s the way it went for decades. As long as I was happy, we kept doing it. I never did something I didn’t want to do."
Shields said she has transformed herself as a star and has taken more control of her career as an adult. Her mother passed away in 2012 at age 79. Their relationship was chronicled in Shields’ 2014 book , "There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me."
"The visual of a pretty girl falling on her face somehow is really appealing," she noted. "That’s been in comedy for a long time; Lucille Ball was a beauty queen. My image went through so many different machinations. I mean, it was like, I was the Lolita, then I was the most famous virgin. Whatever anybody wanted to label me, as they did. Now I’m the depression person because I spoke about postpartum depression."
Today, Shields continues to take on new roles. Most recently, she’s starring in the Netflix film "A Castle for Christmas," which will be available for streaming on Nov. 26.

Brooke Shields attends Glamour Celebrates 2021 Women of the Year Awards on November 08, 2021 in New York City.
(Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Glamour)
The star said that these days, she’s focusing on projects that truly speak to her.
"For the past almost 20 years, I’ve been coming more into my own," she said. "I don’t spend time with people I don’t want to spend time with anymore. I don’t spend time doing things I don’t want to do. I don’t make movies that don’t make me happy."
Stephanie Nolasco covers entertainment at Foxnews.com.
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Pretty Baby , Louis Malle , Brooke Shields , Keith Carradine , Susan Sarandon , Polly Platt.

Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon.
The screenplay was written by Polly Platt.
The plot focuses on a 12-year-old prostitute in the red-light district of New Orleans soon after the beginning of the 20th century.
The title of the film is inspired by the Tony Jackson song "Pretty Baby", which is used in the soundtrack.
Although the film was mostly praised by critics, it caused significant controversy due to its depiction of child prostitution and the nude scenes of Brooke Shields, who was 12 years old at the time of filming.

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My mother's name was Hildegarde. Hildegarde Marr. M-A-R-R.

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And she was Caucasian, or other?

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