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Pretty Baby 1978 Brooke Shields Nude
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1978 US historical drama film by Louis Malle
April 5, 1978 ( 1978-04-05 ) (United States)
Brooke Shields as Violet
Keith Carradine as E. J. Bellocq
Susan Sarandon as Hattie
Frances Faye as Nell
Antonio Fargas as The Professor
Matthew Anton as "Red Top"
Diana Scarwid as Frieda
Barbara Steele as Josephine
Seret Scott as Flora
Cheryl Markowitz as Gussie
Susan Manskey as Fanny
Laura Zimmerman as Agnes
Miz Mary as Odette
Gerrit Graham as "Highpockets"
Mae Mercer as Mama Mosebery
^ "Brooke Shields talks about her hard-drinking mama in memoir" . nypost.com . 12 November 2014 . Retrieved 2022-01-30 .
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^ Jump up to: a b McMurran, Kristen. "Pretty Brooke" Archived 2016-09-25 at the Wayback Machine , People (May 29, 1978).
^ Jones, Derek (2015-05-22). Censorship: A World Encyclopedia . p. 807. ISBN 9781136798641 . Retrieved 2016-01-11 .
^ "The Kubrick Site: Censorship of Kubrick's Films in South Africa" . Late in 1983, the DOP reviewed a number of films and released them on circuit. In some cases, as for example Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, the film had been banned and never screened before
^ "Rewind DVD comparison" .
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^ Variety Staff. " Pretty Baby " Variety (January 1, 1978). Accessed May 6, 2010.
^ The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made. The New York Times via Internet Archive . Published April 29, 2003. Retrieved June 12, 2008.
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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.
In 1917, during the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville , the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana , Hattie is a prostitute working at an elegant brothel run by the elderly, cocaine-sniffing Madame Nell. Hattie has given birth to a baby boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet, who lives in the house. When photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and Violet are the only people awake. He asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay.
Bellocq becomes a fixture in the brothel, photographing the prostitutes, mostly Hattie. His activities fascinate Violet, though she believes he is falling in love with her mother, which makes her jealous. Violet is a restless child, frustrated by the long, precise process Bellocq must go through to compose and take pictures.
Nell decides that Violet is old enough for her virginity to be auctioned off. After a bidding war among regulars, Violet is bought by an apparently quiet customer. Hattie, meanwhile, aspires to escape prostitution. She marries a customer and leaves for St. Louis without her daughter, whom her husband believes to be her sister. Hattie promises to return for Violet, once she's settled and has broken the news to the new spouse.
Violet runs away from the brothel after being punished for some hijinks. She appears on Bellocq's doorstep and asks him if he will sleep with her and take care of her. He initially says no, but then he takes her in and commences having a sexual relationship with the child. In many ways, their relationship resembles one between a parent and child, with Bellocq standing in for Violet's absent mother. Bellocq even buys Violet a doll, telling her that "every child should have a doll". Bellocq is entranced by Violet's beauty, youth, and photogenic face. She is frustrated by Bellocq's devotion to his photography and lack of care for her as a dependent, as much as he is frustrated by the reality that she is a child.
Violet eventually returns to Nell's after quarreling with Bellocq, but social reform groups are forcing the brothels of Storyville to close. Bellocq arrives to wed Violet, ostensibly to protect her from the larger world.
Two weeks after the wedding, Hattie and her husband arrive from St. Louis to collect Violet, claiming that her marriage is illegal without their consent. Bellocq does not want to let Violet go. Violet asks if he will go with her and her family. Upon hearing that she does in fact want to go with them, he lets her leave without him, realizing that schooling and a more conventional life will benefit her greatly.
Following her acclaimed performance as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver (1976), the studio was keen on casting Jodie Foster as Violet. However, Malle rejected the idea as he thought the role should be played by a 12-year-old only, and Foster was 14.
Brooke Shields maintains that it was no big deal to shoot her nude scenes. "I did not experience any distress or humiliation," she writes. What she does remember was trying not to look as if "I'd just sucked on a lemon" before her on-screen kiss with 29-year-old Keith Carradine ("Keith was so kind," she writes) and being soundly slapped – on-screen and for real – by Susan Sarandon . [1]
ABC Records released a soundtrack of the film's ragtime score, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adaptation Score in the "Adaptation Score" category.
Pretty Baby received an R rating in the United States, an X rating in the United Kingdom (18 following a change to the ratings system), [2] and an R18+ rating in Australia, for nudity and sexual content. Continuing controversy over Shields's nude scenes resulted in the film being banned in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Saskatchewan until 1995. Gossip columnist Rona Barrett called the film " child pornography ", and director Louis Malle was described as a "combination of Lolita ' s Humbert Humbert and (by that point) controversial director Roman Polanski ". [3] In Argentina, the film, along with another of Paramount's recent releases ( Looking for Mr. Goodbar ), was banned under the regime of Jorge Rafael Videla during that country's last civil/military dictatorship due in large part to the "pornographic" content that was present in both films. [4] For five years, the film was also banned by the apartheid regime in South Africa. [5]
In addition to the issue of child prostitution, the scenes involving a nude 12-year-old Brooke Shields were controversial. [3] The BBFC originally censored two scenes for the film's cinema release in the UK to remove nudity, but the uncut version was released on DVD in 2006. [2] This same uncut print is the basis of the Region 1 and Region 2 DVD editions worldwide. [6]
Pretty Baby earned $5.8 million in the United States. [7]
The film received mostly positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 71% of 28 critics had given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 6.88/10. [8]
In his New York Times review Vincent Canby wrote: "Mr. Malle, the French director ... has made some controversial films in his time but none, I suspect, that is likely to upset convention quite as much as this one – and mostly for the wrong reasons. Though the setting is a whorehouse, and the lens through which we see everything is Violet, who ... herself becomes one of Nell's chief attractions, Pretty Baby is neither about child prostitution nor is it pornographic." Canby ended his review with the claim that Pretty Baby is "... the most imaginative, most intelligent, and most original film of the year to date." [9]
Similarly, Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert , who gave the film three stars out of four, discussed how "... Pretty Baby has been attacked in some quarters as child porn. It's not. It's an evocation of a time and a place and a sad chapter of Americana ." [10] He also praised Shields's performance, writing that she "... really creates a character here; her subtlety and depth are astonishing." [10]
On the other hand, Variety wrote that "the film is handsome, the players nearly all effective, but the story highlights are confined within a narrow range of ho-hum dramatization." [11] Mountain Xpress critic Ken Hanke, looking at the film from the perspective of 2003, said of Pretty Baby : "It was once shocking and dull. Now it's just dull." [8]
The New York Times placed the film on its Best 1000 Movies Ever list. [12]
The film won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival . [13]
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The virgin Violet (Brooke Shields) is presented to the patrons (Keith Carradine and Antonio Fargas among them) for bidding at the brothel in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby , 1978.
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A cropped version of the original 1976 picture of Brooke Shields, taken for Playboy by Gary Gross
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If the idea that such a photo exists is a little dizzying to you, its origins might make you downright queasy. Prince's work is actually a photograph of another photograph-one that Brooke's mother Teri authorized for a Playboy publication called Sugar 'n' Spice in return for $450 in 1976.
Now, as a mom, there is a lot that is cringe-worthy about this bit of information for me (a ten-year old ? Playboy ? $450 ?), especially in light of the recent hubbub Stateside about parental judgment vis-à-vis what could be child pornography . Why on earth would a mother put her daughter through that? What kind of parent does that to a minor?
Looking further into Brooke Shields early acting career didn't really comfort me.
Between her nude scenes as a girl in a brothel in Pretty Baby at age 12, telling the world "nothing [got] between" her and her Calvin's at age 14, and having to testify before Congress at age 15 that it was, in fact, a body double that did all that steamy lovemaking in the Blue Lagoon , I started to wonder how Teri Shields had escaped the attention of Child Protective Services.
So you can imagine my surprise when I ran across this article from a 1978 issue of People Magazine . In it, almost 13-year-old Brooke Shields answers some pretty tough questions about her role in Pretty Baby in a disarming and age-appropriate way: "It's only a role. I'm not going to grow up and be a prostitute. If I were in a Walt Disney movie people would never ask me if the part would affect my life. That's so dumb."
Still really a child ("I don't even have my period yet"), Brooke attends Mass every week with her mother. Boys? "Sometimes they're really stupid, but other times they're okay." Until recently, Teri would allow Brooke only to double-date, though she can now go out alone. "But I don't want to go steady. My mom doesn't like it. I'm just not ready yet." Brooke shrugs off sex-"I knew all about that when I was 2. Mom told me." When Playboy asked her what "good in bed" meant to her, Brooke nonchalantly replied, "When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup-that's good in bed."
Clearly, taking a People Magazine interview, or really any magazine interview as the end-all-be-all of a young girl's mental state is unwise at best. And again, this brings up many more indignant mom questions ( 2 ? Really ? Playboy asked what ?) But there's something truly surprising about reading Brooke Shields, the kid, talking about Brooke Shields, the sexual icon. She has a unique combination of innocence and perspective that I never would have believed possible for a girl in her situation. That she grew up to be a well-spoken, gracious woman and thoughtful mother , avoiding the kind of breakdowns reserved for young female sex symbols (think Britney Spears, or Lindsay Lohan) speaks volumes.
Does it take away the sick feeling I have about the original photo of taken of a nude, ten-year old Brooke Shields? No, it absolutely does not. It doesn't matter how well she has turned out, I shudder that the picture was ever taken and I feel bad for the older, grown-up Brooke Shields who tried to suppress it. But it does change what I think about the girl in that picture. She does not become the victim I imagine she will.
I can't think of another young actress who was more consistently sexualized from a young age, or seems less damaged by it. I also have to believe a pretty large portion of who Brooke Shields grew up to be, and who she is today has a lot to do with how her mother (who by all accounts was basically single-parenting) raised her. Which in turn makes me wonder: Is it possible that a mother who used such poor judgment in exploiting her young daughter was also a good parent to her during that same time period? Is it possible that the same woman who made a really bad decision to have her daughter photographed that way also helped her retain good boundaries and a strong sense of self?
It's not the answer I was looking for, but it's one I'm having trouble denying.
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