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Pretty Baby

Drama

Directed by Louis Malle

In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother. From TMDB

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Pretty Baby is a 1978 drama film, directed by Louis Malle, starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine and Susan Sarandon.

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  • Syws Bee @soozbee.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2025

    She was 11 when she appeared nude in the film "Pretty Baby". She was 14 when "Blue Lagoon" was made. She was highly sexualized in almost all of her modelling & acting in her early years.

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  • Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2025

    A still from the movie "Pretty Baby." They were auctioning off a child to the highest male bidder. These kinds of people are running our country and deciding our fate.

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    One of my favorite directors, Louis Malle, BOTD 10/30/32 French icon made many bangers & married Candice Bergen! Win, win! Faves: 58 Elevator to the Gallows 71 Murmur of the Heart 74 Lancombe, Lucien 78 Pretty Baby 80 Atlantic City ❤️ 81 My Dinner with Andre 87 Au Revoir les Enfants ❤️ #filmsky 📽

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  • Pagan in Arizona @apaganinarizona.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2026

    This guy can't decide whether Pretty Baby or Pumping Iron is his go-to comfort movie so he alternates between them both.

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2026

    On this day (15th January) in 1985, the Scala Cinema was showing Pretty Baby (1978) and Walk On The Wild Side (1962) as a double bill.

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  • James Bontemps Photography @jamesbontemps.comBluesky · Jan 24, 2026

    This photo of Tessa was inspired by the 1978 Louis Malle film Pretty Baby featuring a very young Brooke Shields in controversial nude scenes.

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  • Al Quint @suburbanvoice.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    "Pretty Baby." I saw it when I was about 19 or 20. I watched it again in recent years to see if maybe I'd have a different perspective. Nope, still garbage. Luckily, it didn't ruin my relationship because the girl I went to see that movie with has been my wife for 37 years

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  • kenny 🙋🏻‍♂️ @itskenny.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    #NowWatching Rocky, Pretty Baby (1956) never thought i’d see these boys in a movie together, but hell yeah

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  • Cult Movies Podcast @cultmoviespodcast.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2026

    This week, we’re back tackling Louis Malle’s controversial Pretty Baby! Matt and Anthony are joined by @gennyradosti.bsky.social and @readandgeek.bsky.social to to break down the film, the life and career of Brooke Shields, and so much more!

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  • Doxie lover @doxiefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    It reminds me of the Movie Pretty Baby when Brooke Shields was paraded around for auction. Stomach churning

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  • The B-Movie Vault @thebmovievault.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 28, 2025

    Movie 10 of #BFestSouth, it's time for ROCK, PRETTY BABY

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  • The Echo of a Distant Time 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪🇩🇰🇨🇦🇺🇦 @arthurnewhook.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    Behold the Lady of Steele: the illustrious Susan Sarandon — born 4 October 1946 — and Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby (1978, Paramount). Visit reddit.com/r/DollsFallen linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈

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  • David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2026

    Ohio State University's Wexner Center is going to be having a film festival. Presumably they're showing Lolita and Pretty Baby. www.dispatch.com/story/entert...

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  • Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2025

    The first five or so years of Brooke Shields' career, frankly. She was in nude scenes at the age of *11* while making PRETTY BABY, a film about a young girl who was being trafficked into prostitution in a brothel!

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  • Hannah 🇺🇸🤨 @hannah-74.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2025

    Perhaps he’s thinking of the movie “Pretty Baby” where Brooke shields was 11 or 12.

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  • Brian Partridge @bpartridge.comBluesky · Jan 18, 2025

    Brooke Shields was born in May 1965. If the 1975 photo shoot was after May, she would've been 10. She turned 11 in May 1976. Pretty Baby was shot in the spring of 1977 (according to Wikipedia), before she turned 12. The movie was released in 1978.

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  • \♡/ @lardyrevenger.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2023

    Watched Pretty Baby. Holy hotdogs, I don't think they'd make a movie like this nowadays! Stangely enough, makes working in a brothel look fun. Quite the nostalgic take on that. Also a rather blasé take on child prostitution and marriage. Definitely not a good first date movie.

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  • ToughestGirlInTown @thetgit.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2025

    “I’ll give ya something to live for Have ya, grab ya 'til you're sore” And yeah, teenage me in the 70s sang along because it was so normalized (see also Brooke Shields movie Pretty Baby from that era etc)

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  • Jenny @loraxthatshit.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 14, 2025

    Hoping it's not Paramount, or every movie will either be a remake of "Pretty Baby", star James Woods & Mel Gibson, or both.

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2025

    On this day (26th September) in 1989, the Scala Cinema was showing Zazie dans le Métro, Lift To The Scaffold aka Elevator To The Gallows and Pretty Baby as a Louis Malle triple bill.

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  • Hope Dave Don't Say "Balls Nasty"❌👑 @davidhirsch.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    PRETTY BABY with Brooke Shields was practically a crime on film. I'm glad even with the witch hunt atmosphere our culture is moving beyond normalized pedophilia. It's part of why the teen pop of the millennium era made me sick - but mainly it was the music itself.

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  • new roses 🌹🎸 @newroses.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2025

    Director Lana Wilson is also known for her work on “Pretty Baby” (2023) a documentary about Brook Shields’ experience with child stardom and objectification in Hollywood. Also, “After Tiller” (2013) a documentary about four American doctors who are third trimester abortion providers.

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  • Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2025

    "When she was 11, Shields [...] appeared naked in French director Louis Malle's controversial film Pretty Baby in 1978. She also appeared in a series of nude photos for the publication Sugar 'n' Spice in 1975 when [she] was ten." My maths isn't great, but this doesn't add up.

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  • RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2024

    I recently watched Pretty Baby, the Brooke Shields doc & also re-watched the Louis Malle film about WWI-era Storyville, in which she plays a 12-year-old prostitute & has a couple nude scenes. The kids who grew up on those Nick shows are just now hearing about it, & are OUTRAGED it even exists....

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  • Michael's Movie Group @michaelcinemagroup.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2026

    Some intriguing films Sven lensed: Pretty Baby, Paul Mazursky’s Willie And Phil, Star 80, The Sacrifice and Sleepless In Seattle. In 1976 while filming The Tenant, Sven also filmed Bergman’s Face To Face, another “disintegrating personality” movie. He was one cool Swede

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  • Callalily @callalily57.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2026

    The movie "Pretty Baby" is another example.

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  • Creepy Phantom with Cutlery🔪 @crabby-phatty.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2026

    Oh God an old man who loves Brooke Shields, I can only assume his favorite movie is Pretty Baby. Gross.

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  • gomijacogeo.bsky.social @gomijacogeo.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2025

    Playboy Italy runs a pictorial of an 11 year old: 1976 Her mother had been publishing 'artistic' images of her for years by then. She was also in a Polanski film at 11, nude on the cover of Der Spiegel at 12, and might have been the 'inspiration' behind Pretty Baby. Then there's always Nugent...

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2025

    The (movie) Pretty Baby (HD) is available today on (iTunes)(Australia) for AU$2.99 Cast: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Antonio Fargas, Diana Scarwid, Barbara Steele Genre: (Erotic) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pretty_baby/

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  • nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

    Film 79 that night covered: Hanover Street with Harrison Ford and Lesley Anne Down Pretty Baby - the “controversial” film with 14 yr old Brooke Shields portraying a 12 yr old “prostitute”.. BBC words not mine.. 🙄🤢 I think we’d all call it something else ..

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  • Sue Romulus @sueromulus.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2025

    There's big money in selling child virgins to old rich rapists. It's a topic in many books, foreign movies, plus the American made movie, Pretty Baby. Plus old musicals touch on the subject, like Les Misérables. Trump's lawyers are prepping groomer Ghislaine Maxwell to LIE in exchange for a pardon.

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  • Vince Donovan @vincednvn.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2025

    Pretty Baby wasn’t a movie, it was a documentary

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2025

    The (movie) Pretty Baby (HD) is available today on (iTunes)(UK) for £2.99 Cast: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Antonio Fargas, Diana Scarwid, Barbara Steele Genre: (Erotic) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pretty_baby/

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 4, 2025

    The (movie) Pretty Baby (HD) is available today on (iTunes)(UK) for £2.99 Cast: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Antonio Fargas, Diana Scarwid, Barbara Steele Genre: (Erotic) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pretty_baby/

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  • Hayley Beamzzz @hbeamzzz.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2025

    I watched Pretty Baby, the Brooke Shields documentary, not to be confused with the Brooke Shields child sex worker movie of the same name, and my takeaway from it is a lot of people should thank their lucky stars that she’s happy and well-adjusted and she doesn’t want revenge.

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  • Thee Aries @giftedasia.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2024

    If you ever see Pretty Baby with an ELEVEN year old Brooke Shields, you will faint. That was basically soft p*rn. Like that movie is a Pedos fantasy. Lolita is also a pedos fantasy. Lolita made me wanna throw up I didn’t even finish it. That movie made me so uncomfortable I just turned it off

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  • A Non-Newtonian Fluid @maddening.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    Little known fact. "Kiss Me Deadly" was the third film in a trilogy. There was "Kiss Me Once" Then "Kiss Me Twice" (I'm not counting the short film "C'mon Pretty Baby")

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  • vampire girlfriend 💀🎃 @mourningdoves.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2024

    i keep getting ads for a brand that makes cute ruffly bloomers. at first i was like nah and then i could realize i could fulfill my dream of looking like an extra from the film Pretty Baby

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  • The Texas Hot Wing Massacre, Derek Smith @darathus.xyzBluesky · Jun 29, 2024

    Playing some catch up! Day 27 - Barbara Steele! #junesploitation My ★★★★ review of Pretty Baby on Letterboxd boxd.it/6LPmfZ

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  • Paul 🧏🏻‍♂️ @banjosworld.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2024

    ... and regarding that article, I'm reminded of Brooke Shields' movie, "Pretty Baby".

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  • Javachik @javachik.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2023

    Oooof I listened to a Brooke Shields interview where she said PRETTY BABY is her favorite and best film she's done. So I'm watching it. How did Louis Malle get away with this? And please don't say "he's French."

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  • Thomas AF✨✨✨ @tawilliams11.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2023

    When I asked if she had seen the movie (PRETTY BABY), she said no, but she’d just watched that Shields doc on Hulu. Got through security fine, btw!

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  • Akerix EN @akerix-en.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2026

    Brooke Shields: A Lasting Impact on Hollywood Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress who gained widespread notoriety for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes… #Akerix #IA #AI https://akerix.com/on-this-day/05-31-brooke-shields-1965

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  • Infinite ALAZAR Alpha Wolfram Centauri Big(Kahuna)Little Dipper @alphacassiopeia.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    as the "Pretty Baby" movie if I'm being auctioned off to anybody I would favor the golden boy for being less compulsory & offering moderately detested alternatives optionally

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  • Whatever_you_wanna_call @kindaariel.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2026

    Part 1/2 Gonna comment in here because I got some songs that matches some character/vibes Livin Vi Da Loca (suiting Virginia, the beats reminds me of her and vibes) Sabrina : Pretty Baby (This song has vibes shows Sabrina would be featured in a movie song when she was a Hollywood star)

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  • 🏳️‍🌈LatinAmerican🏳️‍🌈 @tobito.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2026

    Pretty Baby film.

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  • Roby @roby-zz-dahlia.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2026

    Remember the movie "Pretty Baby"?

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  • sandrusom.bsky.social @sandrusom.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 13, 2026

    Model/Actor Brooke Shields was 11 when she appeared in the film “Pretty Baby” as a child prostitute. She also appeared nude in Playboy. At 11. She was 14-15 in “The Blue Lagoon” a body double was used, but she had her hair glued to her breasts in certain scenes.

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  • RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 5, 2026

    When the Brooke Shields documentary came out, I re-watched Pretty Baby, wondering if I would hate the film I had liked at 18. But I actually liked it more, because now I know enough about film to appreciate how Malle’s camera does not leer or titillate or objectify.

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  • B̵̪͕̝̜̆̒ȧ̴̱̥͓͠d̸̯̤͓́̎Ẹ̷̗͚̠͊͂̈̈́x̶̠̏̔̈́a̶͎̰͇̳͐̆͗́m̶̢̀ṕ̷͚̬̒̊l̷͠ͅe̵̝̯͙͛M̸̡͗̌͋ǎ̶̢̠̻̀͑͑ṋ̷̑̇̊͜ @badexampleman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    Muppet an R-Rated Movie Pretty Baby Kermit

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  • ThatEvilAsexualElf @elveslovetodance.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2026

    *sigh* A movie I seen too young? Beloved and Pretty Baby at 12. I'm still reeling from it.

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  • Joe Cantwell @joecantwell.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2025

    And his favorite movie is "Pretty Baby," followed by "The Blue Lagoon" which was made by a fellow Main Line native.

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  • Michael Daniels @credoabsurdum.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2025

    Daddy Daycare (Granddaddy Daycare?) The Room (More Room?) Movie 43 (44?) Leonard, Part 6 (Part 7?) Pluto Nash (Neptune Nash?) The Blue Lagoon (3, please!) Pretty Baby (Babies?) Look Who's Talking (My Ass!) 300 (301?) The Toy (The Toys?) Mac And Me (Big Mac And Me) Left Behind (Right Front?)

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  • Dennis Fahey @52-blue.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2025

    Baby It's You ~ The Shirelles?, the Beatles B-A-B-Y Pretty Baby Everybody Wants to Be My Baby Now ~ Carl Perkins, The Beatles My Baby Loves a Western Movie ~ The Coasters I'll Be Your Baby Tonight ~ Dylan Be My Baby Havin' My Baby ~ Paul Anka

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  • LinkedOut @l1nked0ut.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    And Pretty Baby is his favourite movie.

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  • David Stone @david-stone.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    Ick. As others have already noted here in the comments, there's no way the '78 movie "Pretty Baby" could be made today. It shouldn't have been made at all.

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  • omniz815.bsky.social @omniz815.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2025

    Pretty Baby (1978) ★★★★ Watched: Nov 1, 202 This is a good film for talking about the value of art versus the conditions of its creation. As a work, it engages a difficult topic to say something valuable about the sexualization of young women's bodies to slake men's power fantasies. 1/

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  • Lizzard1966 @lizzard66.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2025

    I keep thinking of the movie Pretty Baby. Where Brooke Shields played a little girl sold her virginity to the highest bidder. Men are just scum. Her mom let that movie happen. She was too young. She was too young for Blue Lagoon.

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  • Illuminati Ganga @illuminati-ganga.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2025

    IF movies happened in real life - what would Trump do? #prettybaby #pedophile #trump

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  • Antisap' 🖤 🏴 🎶 @[email protected]Mastodon · Aug 30, 2025

    '#PrettyBaby: #BrookeShields' | Official Trailer | Hulu - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x7KedT6uvus&pp=ygUtcHJldHR5IGJhYnk6IEJyb29rZSBTaWVsZHMsIGRvY3VtZW50YXJ5LCAyMDIz

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