Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, written by Polly Platt, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon. Set in 1917, it focuses on a 12-year-old girl being raised in a brothel in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, by her prostitute mother.

Pretty Baby: Directed by Louis Malle. With Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye. A preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

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Foreground (l to r): Diana Scarwid, Susan Sarandon, Keith Carradine and Brooke Shields star in "Pretty Baby." Louis Malle’s “Pretty Baby” is a pleasant surprise: After all the controversy and scandal surrounding its production, it turns out to be a …

In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she works. Photographer Ernest J. Bellocq has an attraction to Hallie and Violet and he is an habitué of the whorehouse.

Dec 8, 2008 · Set in 1917 New Orleans and the infamous red light district of Storyville, Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978) centers on a beautiful prostitute Hattie (Susan Sarandon) and her 12-year-old "trick baby" daughter Violet (Brooke Shields).

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Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq.

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