Pretty Baby (film)

Pretty Baby is a 1978 historical fiction dramatic movie directed by Louis Malle. The screenplay was written by Polly Platt. The title is inspired by the Tony Jackson song, which is used in the soundtrack.

Plot summary

In 1917, the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana. Hattie, a prostitute at the elegant home of Madame Nell, and her 12-year-old daughter Violet are the only ones awake when photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes by with his camera. He takes pictures of Hattie and he fascinates Violet. Over the next few months, Nell arranges for the auction of Violet's virginity, Hattie marries and goes to St. Louis leaving Violet behind, and Violet determines to marry Bellocq. Is this idyllic or is she just a girl wearing rouge, soon to return to childhood?

Related Topics:
1917 - Prostitution - Storyville - New Orleans, Louisiana - Ernest J. Bellocq

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