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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.
Sony Pictures initially refused to remove the scene. However, on 29 January 2008, after the scene was excised, the film was rated R18 for "torture and sadistic violence". [346] 2010 I Spit on Your Grave (2010 remake) Banned "because it tends to promote and support the use of violence to compel any person to submit to sexual conduct". [347] [348 ...
Pretty Baby: Banned in Ontario and Saskatchewan on the basis of scenes in which star Brooke Shields, then aged thirteen, was photographed in the nude. [23]: 39 The ban was repealed in 1995. [24] 1978–1996 Faces of Death: Series of mondo films banned in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. [25] 1979 Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
It’s perhaps their mom’s most famous — and controversial film, and if you ask Brooke Shields’ daughters Rowan and Grier about Pretty Baby, her 1978 movie in which she played a child ...
“It’s more like it never really crossed my mind to say, ‘Movie night, let’s watch “Pretty Baby.”’ I’m either watching ‘Love Island’ or a new movie, like ‘Minions’ or ...
From left to right: Keith Carradine in 1978's Pretty Baby and a 2023 episode of the Fox series Accused. (Photo: Everett Collection, Steve Wilkie/FOX) (Everett Collection, Steve Wilkie/FOX)
Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, [2] Shields gained widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes shot when she was 11 years old. [3]
Director Lana Wilson with Brooke Shields at the Pretty Baby premiere in NYC on March 29. The two-part documentary is now streaming on Hulu. (Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) (Jamie McCarthy via ...