Pretty Baby (3/8) Movie CLIP - Bidding on Violet (1978) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Nell (Frances Faye) takes bids for Violet's (Brooke Shields) first night as a prostitute.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
After making a series of acclaimed and controversial films in his native France, director Louis Malle made his American debut with this disturbing but visually beautiful story about Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a prostitute working in New Orleans' Storyville district at the turn of the century. When Hattie becomes pregnant, she opts to keep her baby and gives birth to a daughter named Violet, raising her in the brothel where she continues to work. Twelve years later, Violet (Brooke Shields) is old enough to attract the attentions of the brothel's customers, but emotionally has one foot in the adult world of her surroundings and the other in the na
CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (1978)
Cast: Keith Carradine, Antonio Fargas, Don Lutenbacher, Frances Faye, Susan Sarandon, Diana Scarwid, Seret Scott, Brooke Shields
Director: Louis Malle
Producers: Louis Malle, Polly Platt
Screenwriters: Louis Malle, Polly Platt
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[@beccaflynn6261]

I would be scared shitless, all those men different ages, looking at me, knowing what they're thinking.

[@Liannghawrlastar]

her body was 12, her face and mind was 21

[@SamBorgman]

ompu-ya the Papaya yeah and you know what her mind was like because you are her god and creator right?

[@Liannghawrlastar]

no, im just an asshole from the internet who made stuffs up *****

[@leafyutube]

Dystopia_ THALL Seriously, you think her face here looks like 21?!?!?!

[@wegotogetherlikechickennug4424]

well when they ask if she's a virgin, it's not exactly a sceret.

[@ajh-lb2nw]

what always gets me in this scene is the look on the piano players face. he knows this is wrong but as a black man in this time and place he has no power to stop it and he knows it.

[@kaffeice7]

i loved that black dude, the way he talked and stuff, loved hes attitude

[@Kiwipugato]

He looks like he’s going to tear up

[@ocky88]

Someone once pointed out that Black Americans are the only race x ethnic group with a full on ZERO tolerance attitude for pedophiles. There really is no Black American enclave that a pervert could visit and ask about buying a child and not get destroyed on the spot.

[@Eva-m2c3s]

OJay88 except for R Kelly

[@6610stix]

They *ALL* knew it was wrong, including the kid. It's just that he was the only one in the room who cared that it was wrong..

[@TJWells-sx9gp]

This is very disturbing

[@genevaw.8330]

+T.J. Wells Isn't it!? ; (

[@RONIDC1979]

+T.J. Wells and whats sad is they say the girl playing violet which is non other then brook shields was actually used a a child prostitute in Hollywood ...pedophilia and satanism in Hollywood is ...well the name of the game...smh

[@johnsmith-fk7fw]

+Zelda Triforce reality can be triggering

[@TJWells-sx9gp]

*****​ That has nothing to do with the video. Did you actually think about what you were going to say, or did you let that pointless statement fall out of you by accident?

[@MarkRoberts-bj2me]

T.J. Wells Just trying to provide some perspective man as if the pic were of a man hanging from a tree, a victim of the KKK. Now THAT would be disturbing! Leave it to sexually repressed and hypocritical Americans to make a big deal out of a scene from a movie, and it's not even an Italian film.

[@g.m.5789]

"How do we know if she's a virgin?" God lord, she's a child.

[@pinkfreud62]

Meh. They ask that question all the time in the middle east. Especially if they're a child.

[@erniemaemalle1244]

When they said it it made me 💯 uncomfortable

[@currentlywaiting1081]

@@pinkfreud62 I'm saudi arabian and never heard someone ask that question especially to children you really have to involve use everywhere right?

[@godking4118]

@@pinkfreud62 lol

[@DrMonkeyxD]

so what?

[@misssmisssymaria]

The look on the black man’s face, he knew exactly how the girl was feeling. He was slightly shaking his head.

[@louisecoffey9843]

Why did the girl want to stay though when her mother wanted to leave? I guess she knew no better and that was her home. Very sad.

[@shaunaray1]

@@louisecoffey9843 her mom left her, said her kid was her sister and didn't admit anything until she was sure her husband wouldn't leave her.

[@therealfinnaspring8585]

Nah he was just curious to see how it would go. In the previous clips he was making jokes about her wearing red to cover the up the blood of her cherry popping....its disgusting

[@palmer491]

@@therealfinnaspring8585 what😷

[@therealfinnaspring8585]

@@palmer491 yeah its nasty.

[@britneyspears5727]

I don't know much about Brooke Shields, but it seems so odd to me that at such a young age she would be in movies like this one, and Blue Lagoon. Overly sexualized so young. Just weird.

[@KittyxGrimm]

+Britney Spears She had a bit of a "nymphet" image in her younger years, which is kind of sick when you look at it. She was twelve in this movie!

[@oliverlippner7185]

+Kitty Grimm A nymphet she was, you a Nabokov fan?

[@KittyxGrimm]

Oliver Lippner I wouldn't call myself a fan, per se, but I remember reading Lolita for a banned book project in high school and I quite enjoyed it.

[@oliverlippner7185]

It's one of my favourite Russian novels. The prose is beautiful.

[@vcp365]

And she remained a virgin till age 22. A record in Hollyweird. Go figure!

[@margaritam.9118]

The butler seems to be the only person who is *not* okay with the child auction.

[@tunacatrawrz9858]

he is also being creepy in the previous clip though

[@margaritam.9118]

Dakota Syren aah, then his look is just a jealous one :D

[@tunacatrawrz9858]

Pretty much

[@tunacatrawrz9858]

(As gross as it is)

[@virginiagreen3704]

Hes a pianist. And hes disturbed because his grandparents and perhaps parents were slaves. Slavery might be officially over by 1914 but people are still being sold to the highest bidder.

[@Ruby-nw3hk]

She was 11 in pretty baby her mother really exploited her

[@idadudenmanner]

Yeah her mother was a notorious stage mother. She was also naked (fully) in Blue Lagoon Return or whatever that movie was called

[@0371998]

your brain is bottleneck ! So you have 100 year to live again if you want to be more evolved. The respect is something that you have ignored inside your plebeian sphere so reduced in mentality since the last century ! She is the structural key for the message that millions people affected cant reach. By this fact on the table,this movie is one beauty spark who made the promotion for the society of Orders.

[@LMA629]

Ida Dudenmanner she wasn't naked in Blue Lagoon. She had a body double then. She was, unfortunately, naked in this film 😕

[@skaterccchick]

How else would we have any child actors ? It's called acting , it's a job . plus , she loved it and was comfortable shooting the whole thing

[@abbyalip3438]

coffee 7 her mother forced her to take nude pictures (a professional photo shoot may I add) and sold them to play boy without her consent

[@lizzyyork]

Brooke Shields parents, and the people who made this all deserve to rot in a jail cell. Putting a child in a role like this is disgusting.

[@hellofellowhumanbeings]

I totally agree with you. You know what is the worst part ? People will still defend her parents !! When she was younger than that she appeared naked on playboy... People will STILL find a way to say nothing wrong with that 🤦🏿‍♀️🤦🏿‍♀️

[@Mario-ch5qy]

If the film was about a young boy, what would you say then?

[@biberflub]

I read she first posed nude when she was 8 yrs old, and then for playboy when she was 10

[@eezee5744]

I never understood how not only movies like this but other extreme R rated movies such as horror movies won't allow children into the theater to watch, yet might very well have child actors in the movie.

[@debraannjames-bissoondath6037]

Very, very disgusting;!

[@reiolli3989]

I don't care if this is a movie. This scene broke my heart. The look on the men's faces was chilling. The powerless look of the piano player. This is all so wrong but its also a reality.

[@TEM14411]

On one hand, this movie represents unpleasant truth. On another it is a tool for pedos to use with victims. The producers and directors had to know this.

[@vanessaamatyleon513]

Agreed 100% with what you said. Heartbreaking

[@tsegulin]

That was the whole point. The scene shows a preteen essentially being thrown to the dogs. Lois Malle has set this up well and the black piano player - who could be expected to have seen some real pain and injustice inflicted in his time upon undeserving innocents really grounds the morality of the entire enterprise. It is intended to shock and it does IMHO. A great scene.

[@vanessaamatyleon513]

@@tsegulin I don't see anything great about this scene to be quite honest

[@blank-men]

the piano Player is a black man looking at a child be sold Just like a slave back then so yeah he would not see race but only a kid so yeah he is not too happy + he work for whites

[@mimimosa259]

The scary thing is that this happens in real life and with much younger children!

[@AWlpsSHOW36]

IKR? It's an issue I really want to fight against when I become a Global Activist.

[@imbored1989]

AWlpsSHOW36 same!! Someone I can relate too 😃

[@kissanangellottalove6945]

@@imbored1989 me too! I want to help to stop this sick thing and kill pedos

[@6InchTruth]

Omg same here!

[@muttgusse]

In them sandy regions its common yes

[@tianacastro452]

This makes me really pissed off to know that this really happened and still happens today. It's so sad and just disgusting.

[@skinnyfurby6543]

Micah Fries "There plenty of female perverts out there, too." Most of the boys who get sexually abused are abused by men. Well over 95% of Pedophiles are male.

[@emykitkat8464]

Micah Fries Wtf no one said this didn’t happen to guys so why you gotta bring that up 🤨🤔 and the comment above me is right

[@yodaddy4077]

It is I just said wtf is wrong with theses people

@hen don't generalize.

[@bubblysaturn5203]

@@skinnyfurby6543 u are wrong

[@naelisdu77]

OMG this is so creepy

[@m.f.b2323]

it's what happened back then unfortunately and it still happens in some places today

[@hurryup292]

How times have changed,because no father in this day will allow that..

[@Impetuss]

www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/how-can-we-prevent-child-abuse-if-we-dont-understand-paedophilia-8438660.html "These lab studies indicate that somewhere between 17 per cent and per cent of a ‘normal’ sample of men (who do not describe themselves as ‘paedophile’) seem to be capable of being sexually aroused by young children, under the age of twelve years old. In other words, roughly one in six to more than one in every two adult men may be capable of being sexually attracted to children."

[@ThanhMinh-re2um]

Sell human :(

[@barriemoore6369]

This was shocking in the 70s ! But it made everyone go see the movie and it made Brooke thee "it girl" of her day !!

[@Rockamolie]

This movie is disgusting and makes me sick. Brook Shield's mother actually did prostuite her by putting her in Playboy at age 10 which makes me even sicker.

[@IONov990]

Are you serious? People are strange.

[@giantsgirl722]

Facts people are disgusting

[@Sunkissed949]

@@IONov990 Yes, it was published under their parent company, which was dedicated to showing “younger” girls as long as they had the parental consent. And it wasn’t just Brooke, there was more :((

[@H81234]

Seriously? The fact that Hugh Hefner allowed that makes him an even bigger monster than what he was.

[@HawtyHaven]

EXCUSE ME WHAT??? Imo the movie shows a lot about history and child prostitution. And at least they used body doubles. Even if she was young this made her a star but THIS THIS I 100% DO NOT AGREE WITH AT ALL. 😧 who said this was okay???

[@StevenErnest]

Touching moment with the black gentleman watching, obviously thinking how this auction is the way slaves were sold.

[@KilSmiley]

Were? It's still happening the same way today, but I bet the buyers put a lot more effort in concealing their identity in the last 2 or 3 years.

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@KilSmiley There's more slavery in the present day than there was in the past

[@emersoncf]

The great Antonio Fargas. A very underrated actor.

[@material-cheshirekhatter2413]

@@SamuelBlack84 That is a lie

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@material-cheshirekhatter2413 If only it was

[@jazzigonzales2123]

I'm lost in youtube again. Damn it

[@missjennifer5593]

Devaldha lol Same here...

[@nathancohen8517]

Same lol

[@JallabeeCD]

Jazzi Gonzales ME TOO

[@deerheart87]

Jazzi Gonzales me tooo I fell down the rabbit hole

[@bluecollarlit]

Same!

[@Alexisahottie]

"Don't break the merchandise." Isn't that what they're aiming for??? :/

[@m.f.b2323]

+Zelda Triforce she acted that she was getting hurt she knew what she was doing

[@BritM]

+alexs123 this could have been a glitch on my phone, but if it wasn't, you really didn't have to post the same comment three times.

[@Kairii-Kylie]

Alexis it's not something to joke about

[@Theri4444]

Alexis was not joking was just telling the truth of how it was back then all the time for pretty girls, girls who were just sold for sex back then. Unfortunately this sort of thing still happens today and happens in every single country

[@guesswho600]

AlexisDesterie I like the way you think girl

[@MeneTekelUpharsin]

This is probably what goes on in Thailand everyday but in a much worse environment.

[@breezy4852]

It stills happens in the usa too

[@idontcare1335]

No not really,

[@pensandnoodles681]

It happens in a lot of the "massage parlors" in the US.

[@_Alimm]

Mene Tekel This happens right here in America. Sex-traffiking is a real thing

[@tracygalicia7342]

brianna hughes yeah but in Thailand it's worse.

[@golupous]

*She’s as fresh as baby’s lips* That freaked me out.

[@galactic1285]

What the actual f*** 😣

[@eveliinaaho2300]

@@galactic1285 😂

[@HawtyHaven]

@@eveliinaaho2300 why are u laughing?

[@bartdegryse9345]

Pedo alarm

[@annabuchanan4256]

Yeah that’s a very creepy comment

[@HBICTiff]

I love the lingering shot of the black servant as the men bid on Violet. He would have understood how she felt better than anyone else in the room. An object rather than a person to be respected. Despite wanting to represent this time period as accurately as possible, the filmmakers obviously wanted to illustrate the wrongfulness of slavery and child prostitution with subtle camera choices like this.

[@MadameCorgi]

This isn't porn. This screen is meant to make you feel uncomfortable.

[@tashadfowler3465]

Was her nude scenes meant to do the same?🙄

[@tz-mk1dg]

And the justification for making such a movie??? Please, this movie is NOT NECESSARY

[@angies3057]

It sure worked.

[@imbored1989]

Angie S exactly,I feel like this just incourages more people to think this pedophilia is ok rather than raising awareness for it

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

@@tz-mk1dg totally agree. Anyone involved in making this movie has no shame.

[@pandora4037]

1:02 - 1:28 Such a good actor. You can see the thoughts and emotions playing across his face.

[@Ilostmyfob]

Huggy Bear...

[@lauracerqueiramachado8979]

This actor later played Doc in Everybody Hates Chris

[@kritzkrieg14]

@@lauracerqueiramachado8979 OMG! YOU'RE RIGHT!! i knew his face was familiar

[@darenwright1071]

Antonio Fargas, a very good actor.

[@lillb643]

I'm pretty sure most of it wasn't acting.

[@AylinDodogan]

This is without the doubt one of the worst awful movies in history. The story, the plot, the fact that Brooke was A CHILD doing all of this….it’s disgusting. Brooke’s upcoming talks about the impact this awful movie has put on her life. Please watch it. And let’s uplift her story to make sure “movies” like this NEVER happen again.

[@alimichalkan8046]

We’re talking about Hollywood here filled with pedo men to allow them to happen.

[@himhim3344]

RIP Brooke

[@blueturtle3623]

Yeah no, you don't get to traumatize kids on-set just because kids get traumatized in real life. No way does this need to happen again.

[@himhim3344]

@@blueturtle3623 It depends on the kid. Brooke wasn't strong enough to handle the role but a young Dakota Fanning would have been able to handle it.

[@blueturtle3623]

@@himhim3344 Neither of them should have been put in that position. It is never okay for a child actor to have nude scenes.

[@rado3880]

I bet this is Epstein's favorite movie.

[@sendhelpuser1335]

Uh

[@Imp9thy]

Yep.

[@tadejau3325]

epstein was not into kids, be specific. he was not a pedo he was hebafile or ephebofile . pedo is sick attraction to the body that hasn’t hit puberty yet. hebafile is during puberty and ephebafile roght after puberty

[@justdonis1891]

haha iliuminati brainwashed you to believe that good and bad exist .Such a losers .In nature everyone naked .Watch aajonus vonderplanitz ,sv3rige ,nwo diet ,dr natacha all proof everything you need to be iliuminatti or nature human

[@aroosajkhan]

Don’t forget Pervy Prince Andrew too!

[@therealfinnaspring8585]

Everyone clearly hasn't seen the movie. The pianist (black guy) does NOT feel bad for and he is not seeing a connection between this and slave auctions. If you watch the movie you would know he makes jokes while they are prepping her for this auction about putting her in red to disguise the blood from her "cherry popping". He is used to this he works in this brothel it doesn't phase him he's just curious to see how high she will go for.

[@blondewriter99]

They have to virtue signal

[@blondewriter99]

@Miguelle Landry is a perfect 10 Of course, it's a well-known movie.

[@elise6080]

@Miguelle Landry is a perfect 10 not everywhere. It was banned in Canada for a while and most copies now have cut her nude scene

[@YuriMuff]

Anyone who has watched this movie is an absolute sicko. Shame on anyone who has, tbh.

[@phantasma616]

you really think they spent 20+ seconds on his troubled face while people aggressively bid on a human being and didn't mean to make a point?

[@AbsiBee]

I'm actually disgusted

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

different times and different people some say better times ayyy lmao

[@slimazcoke327]

Absi Bee me 2

[@joshkorhonen8135]

Absi Bee me to

[@bornhunter100]

That's Hollywood for you.

[@Mario-ch5qy]

Because it's about a girl? What if the movie was about a boy, what would you say then?

[@ginniekinz5401]

God, those men are creepy! 😬

[@seiramikagura7756]

GinnieKinz💜 and OLD

[@skate3enjoyer418]

GinnieKinz💜 that’s what the director or writer was trying to convey..

[@kirbyhatesincels917]

Castrate them all with rusty knives.

[@tylerposeyismymain7961]

I wish I had a gun and I was in that movie.. lets just say the only person left alive in that room would be me and the girl

[@dougiequick1]

And THEN what? Total X rated I presume? Have her all to yourself?

[@Kairii-Kylie]

Or tyler means he'd punish that bunch of Pedophiles to save the girl, of he wanted X=rated he'd say he wanted to buy her...

[@spoooderminlovesdolantrump4635]

Yup just need an AR 15

[@feistychihuahua8442]

Count me in

[@daveygivens735]

I get a kick out seeing all the moralizing from a bunch of guys who I bet did not make it through today without visiting a porn site.

[@marley92282]

“Remember gentlemen, she’s as fresh as a baby’s lips” I just threw up in my mouth!

[@KilSmiley]

Yea, I noticed that sick confession the producers of this documented admission of guilt by truth in plain site threw in there. I was born in '78 & never heard of this movie. A sub mentioned it in the comments under the latest vid by Amazing Polly. I wanted to look for clues, knowing what we do now. That line there was far worse of a P€D0 clue than I expexted, and I know they do worse than R@p€ to babies. 😤 Hell is barely punishment enough.

[@Hercules718]

How did it taste ?

[@bartdegryse9345]

These kinda movie's nowadays would be a no no ...

[@CreekCat1]

I know, right?

[@blackberry8615]

Bruh, I can’t take this earth anymore. I’m moving to Pluto. Anyone wanna come?

[@angrychick259]

I'll be honored.

[@carter4396]

Yo 🙋‍♀️

[@FacebookQueen]

Pluto doesn’t exist anymore but yes let’s leave at midnight

[@lisabornin2007]

Wait for me 🙋🏾‍♀️

[@hannahbb2557]

I almost couldn't finish this movie, it made me physically sick just watching it.

[@Hercules718]

Did you vomit all over your bed ?

[@thethrowawaythatstayed7055]

The piano man is the only one who feels sick over this it seems.

[@MrJhhallmark]

Yes cuz he's the token black noble guy that's always around right! Idiot

[@UIAL570]

@@MrJhhallmark no need to be so defensive

[@UIAL570]

And Belocq. He hated it but stood by, and what’s worse is that unlike the piano player he had the power to stop it

[@heinoustentacles5719]

@@MrJhhallmark token black guy? This is a 70s movie...

[@tshepimosadi9953]

@@heinoustentacles5719 the movie setting (time period ) is the early 1900s

[@VztrajniVolk]

Well, this could be called a pedophile movie, wouldn't it? And if we rightly have a campaign against paedophila everywhere and is rightly prosecuted by the police and legislation, why not do the YT and other websites and, of course, the relevant services! Movies with child nudity, sexuality must be withdrawn!

[@alyssarivera4461]

People saying it's a just a movie ateeee genuinely stupid. On screen they had this little girl kissing a grown man, they made a movie about exploiting a child by exploiting a child

[@DiamanteDea]

Alyssa Rivera exactly...

[@maddalonefarms]

The black man knows what she’s going through

[@ladydiamond6261]

I just see a bunch of devils and an innocent Angel

[@guitarttimman]

She's not an angel. She made great money. The funny thing about it is that it's based upon history.

[@Neithie]

It was a beautiful and tragic film. Makes me think of what children still have to endure in sex trafficking.

[@guitarttimman]

Are you trafficking them?

[@twistedcherrypop]

this is very creepy!

[@happycat506]

sick and disturbing

[@kimberlysteph3877]

Why is this allowed to be viewed? It's absolutely disgusting.. You people do realize this still goes on till this day, right? Ya, it could be your child. Watch your children closely.

[@littlecasino60]

The Victorian décor, classic. That's how 'Victoria's Secret' got it's name. There is actually no woman named Victoria and she had no secrets.

[@Kairii-Kylie]

What relevance does that happen to the film...

[@daugtherofthelord7354]

Princess Taboo nu

[@meelomellow2590]

.... queen Victoria

[@sherryisajerk]

The secret is Victoria is a man.

[@lise895]

No the spice girl victoria beckham made the company

[@tinsote7176]

Before Cuties, there was this abomination.

[@jcrossan1351]

Is this what it looked like at Harvey Weinstein and Jeffery Epstein’s house

[@michaelpryor78]

Idk about Weinstein, but with Epstein, absolutely. Apparently they flew in 12 year old French triplets for one of his birthdays.

[@meangreenmememachine2890]

classic ped0wood moment 🍕🍕🍕

[@nossac1]

As a human being and a parent, this utterly horrifies and terrifies me.

[@mrpurple11]

the movie confronts you a lot without being explicit. The best scene is actualy the ending when Sarandon (the mother) comes back for her after marrying a respectable man and give her a good life but deep down the girl knows is all a farce

[@charmainebalzan1857]

mrpurple11 we have never experienced and obtained mastery because of the strong stop of Wisdom/expression/healing spirit/happiness/joy/real freedom/peace.

[@daynawithawhy]

This would have been bad enough if it was only in a movie but poor Brooke was getting sold in real life too. She was horribly exploited by her parents, sold into sexual roles and was 11 and 12 and partying at Studio 54

[@SY-ok2dq]

I don't think Brooke was "partying"- that stuff was just for publicity photos, keeping Brooke famous and in magazines etc. Teri Shields was a weird and disturbed woman. She seemed to relish pimping out Brooke - but only for photos and screen roles. Teri made sure Brooke was not in unsupervised contact with any men, or boys (Teri was always telling the world that Brooke was a virgin). Teri wasn't about to let anyone "spoil the merchandise" that Teri seemed to think belonged to her. Also, Teri was kind of old school strict, and made sure Brooke learned manners and spoke politely, went to a normal school, got good grades and did household chores. It turns out that Teri was an alcoholic, and was often out of it or depressed and in bed, at home so Brooke acted as a caretaker. Brooke, as a child/teen, was very responsible, sensible and mature and didn't get into any trouble - no alcohol or drugs or "partying" or DUIs. Brooke worked, was the breadwinner, and went to school. She only attended parties and events for publicity, for her career, and she was chaperoned. Teri didn't want anyone damaging Brooke's career or image. Their lifestyle was supported by Brooke working, and I think Teri enjoyed the fame and glitz as well as the money. No way Teri would have let anything damage that. In any case, Brooke was a sensible girl and felt she had to be responsible and take care of her mother.

[@daynawithawhy]

@@SY-ok2dq That's so broken. Damn her and others like her

[@SY-ok2dq]

@@daynawithawhy It's shocking and terrible but in contrast to plenty of Disney stars and teen pop stars like Britney Spears, Brooke lived a very quiet life on the straight and narrow - no drugs or alcohol, no stuff like the Miley Cyrus teenaged bra selfies or the twerking with Robin Thicke or the pole dancing etc. on awards shows, no DUIs, no flashing on talk shows like Drew Barrymore, no terrible brat behavior on set or out in public, no shock tactics, no run-ins with the law, no debt problems or lavish overspending - nothing! She went to university and was a serious student. In old interviews from the 80s, Brooke waa a very polite and mature-sounding teen - no slang or swearing, good grammar and vocabulary, good manners. Brooke seems like a very nice, intelligent and thoughtful, grounded, caring person.

[@blondewriter99]

She was famously a virgin into college. Give it a rest. It's a movie.

[@daynawithawhy]

@@blondewriter99 would you let your 11 year old daughter take this role, it being "just a movie"?

[@rickdawkins5025]

This is disgusting and it goes on still to this day. Pos world!

[@nichellesusan8537]

The lady: "She's fresh as a baby's lips." Me: *wHaT?!*

[@letspraytherosary4410]

Brooke Sheilds was only 11 years old when she made this film, and she had to kiss a 28 year old man. In her documentary,, she said she didn't understand why her mother would let her do a film like this.

[@LadyBloodyWrists]

The fact this happened in real life several times and probably still happens in Thailand is absolutely frightening and tragic.

[@maywalker997]

It happens all over the world, even in places where prostitution and child trafficking are supposedly illegal. If you think you need to go to a far away non-Western country to find this, guess again.

[@Umeshukitsune]

Very common in America. Look at child brides in America. People like to think things like this only happen outside the West.

[@Mossyangel]

"In thailand" nah, bro, you're just (luckily) sheltered enough you don't see or understand that it is absolutely rampant in every corner of the world. Unfortunately.

[@jessicam5712]

This happens everywhere, absolutely everywhere. Probably in your town, definitely in mine, for some reason my midsized city is a hub for human trafficking and I live in California.

[@konczk]

Child prostitution is a result of poverty. In poor countries parents have to sell their girls at an early age so that the boys and the rest of the family don't starve to death. If they're lucky, they're married off, if they're unlucky they get sold to a brothel. This is unimaginable to us, but even from the girl's perspective it is preferable to become a child prostitute than starve to death or see your family starve. To us, this unimaginable but people in real poverty face choices like that every day. I remember reading a book about the 1997 Asian financial crisis which was so bad that a lot of poor families had to sell their kids in places like Thailand and Indonesia. Even the American author who interviewed these people had to stop and think what he would do in their place. Would he sacrifice one of his girls and sell her into prostitution to save his other children? We should be thankful we don't have to make those choices, but this is the reality for a big chunk of humanity even today.

[@tohmaseguchi8505]

Linda B I agree, you should want your offspring to be better than you

[@konczk]

Linda B You have obviously never lived in a third world country. I have. Life isn't always that simple and people have to make really hard choices, that we can't even imagine. I am not protecting their moral decisions, simply pointing out that since we don't have to face those choices, it is sanctimonious and presumptuous of us to take the moral high ground and assume that we would make better choices in the same situation. Everybody assumes that they would be real heroes if they got into a situation like that. Reality shows that most people take the easy way out, the path of least resistance in crisis situations and only a very small minority act selflessly. Sometimes there just aren't any good choices and you have to choose the least bad one. For instance I've talked to some of the survivors of the anti-chinese pogroms in Indonesia. The Indigenous locals went on a witch-hunt, hunting down the chinese from house to house. In some cases the families were spared if the father or the brother agreed to rape their daughter/sister for the amusement of the savages. So what would you do in a situation like that? If the decision is to rape your daughter or your sister so that you can save the whole family, including her, or let everyone die?

[@tohmaseguchi8505]

Christian Koncz I'm sure the girl would've rather died because she probably ended up mentally scarred...but I'd fix all of this shit by NOT BRINGING CHILDREN INTO MY POVERTY..its that simple, duh...

[@konczk]

***** ah yes, women in third world countries get to choose who they marry and whether they have children. It's not like they're forced into an arranged marriage and get raped by their husbands if they refuse sex, is it? And instead of eating, the money they would have spent on food can always go to contraceptives, right? And it's not like their own families or their husbands would murder them if they found out, right? Just count yourself lucky you don't know what life is like for these women. My point is that people in poverty have no choice. They cannot exercise their free will, choices get made for them whether they like it or not.

[@SamBorgman]

Christian Koncz Yeah its shocking how little people can even imagine about life of the poor in a backward society.

[@somethingorother9]

My friend was a victim of sex trafficking from the age of 8 to 14 or 15. It's still happening.

[@Mila-Nova]

A room full of pedos. Why did I watch this😞

[@millierose4322]

Those men are sooo disgusting. How horrible is this movie💔

[@trudyramgren8817]

Most disgusting movie ever!!!! Poor Brooke and shame on her mother!!!!

[@mariebrown5681]

Exactly.

[@joliecide]

Ah the days of yore... Back when child exploitation on film was a high art.

[@bellavita1323]

Any parent that truly loves their child would never allow their child to be sexually exploited and it's absolutely repulsive that Brooke's mother allowed her daughter to be exposed to Hollywood's vultures at the tender age of 11 but I guess those dollar signs she saw in her daughters eyes, outweighed the innocence she should have seen instead. So many child actors and or model's have parents that just toss them in the limelight, not caring what type of vile animalistic creatures are preying upon their young.

[@sonyasanchez5138]

Oh you'd be surprised.

[@bellavita1323]

@@sonyasanchez5138 That's not love then. My mother knew what my uncle, her brother and step father did to me and did nothing. Not to mention her father that molested her, she left us alone with him and allowed him to stay in our house whenever he was traveling through and I didn't know at my young age what he'd done until I was a teen and she'd told me, to which I asked why she'd trust him around me and she replied he said he was sorry. Just sickens me how much truly goes on in this world, this country and so much is left behind closed doors

[@amandamorgan2802]

Bella,we are talking about a child who had to go looking for her mom after school, at times.What pub is my sozzled mom in?

[@amandamorgan2802]

@@bellavita1323 Very sorry for you.Good luck and to heal.

[@Ilostmyfob]

I understand what you're saying but the same thing happened to Jodie Foster at around the same age. Do you feel the same way about Jodie Foster's mother. I think she's dead now anyway. I think both of them are Brooke's mom and Jody's mom

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

**HUMILIATING** Poor Brooke Shields, AND poor Judy Garland (hooked on hard drugs by Louis B. Mayer (head of M-G-M Studios) when she was 13 years old, AND poor Shirley Temple (oh, yes!) who was abused by just about *EVERYBODY*. Add to that the actor Leslie Nielsen, whose ears were "boxed" so often by his abusive father that he was *permanently deafened*. (Yep, he had to read lips in all of his movies...)

[@daskritterhaus5491]

and just think. this is STILL going on. just ask p diddy. or is that p diddler?

[@charlotted1321]

Poor girl thrown into movies being overly sexualized, was it really necessary? Couldn't believe that she was only 15 in blue lagoon

[@AmazingGracer45]

14 while filming, actually, so even worse. :/

[@julianan.8504]

+Grace Amazer I never saw Blue Lagoon, but is Brooke naked in this movie? Does she show her boobs?

[@charlotted1321]

Yes to both of those questions Liljana Nakas

[@julianan.8504]

+Charlotte D in Pretty Baby too?

[@markansel8334]

+Liljana Nakas yes there is a scene in this movie where she is completely naked

[@davidmorales1956]

the writer of this movie should stay far away from schools and be supervised 20 times a day .

[@HaHa-uo6kp]

david morales I haven't watched this movie yet but I'm pretty sure it's made so it can spread awareness of child prostitution and pedophiles, not to glorify them

[@Kairii-Kylie]

Just because he wrote it, it doesn't make him a paedophile, it's based on true events, he is bring those to light and raising awareness, and it still happens these days

[@anastasia-fr1gn]

Ha Ha No it exploited a child unable to understand the ethical evil of having an 11 year old girl nude in photos and film. If you haven't watched it...how can you begin to address the callous and even romantized way the director treats this poor child. Making an 11 year old kiss a 30 year old and film nude, even frontal nudity is horrible. The same director that photographed Brooke at age 10 naked full of makeup for a magazine. Just because the movie has nice costumes and is shot with style doesn't make it exempt from exploitation.

[@mexikunt]

um no this is history lol and it still happens he wasnt glorifying it

[@iamaswift234]

MrTron no this is different since she was fully nude in the movie

[@raisatasnim6065]

They could have used someone that looks young, not an actual 11 year old

[@pernelachea1163]

i think that was the point, to actually confront the audience with the reality of a child

[@PearlFirexx]

Regardless the role would be the same. A women playing a child prostitute. I bet if they did that people would still complain about it and say the girl didn't fit the part because the girl was clearly over 17 and not an 11 year old.

[@harrybriscoe7948]

more realistic with a real 11 year old. Did you think they should have used older clothes to like from the 1700s ?

[@alanveiga452]

When she was young, she was the most beautiful woman on the planet. I don't think I have ever met or seen, either in person or on screen,anyone who was as beautiful as she was. But she never got any role where her beauty was secondary to her acting. If she had been less beautiful, she could have got roles like Jennifer Lawrence: a beautiful actress, but not as beautiful as Brooke in her peak years.

[@Kate-rm3px]

I remember seeing this for the first time at about 16. While I believe the same message could have been sent with an older legal aged female playing the role I remember realizing that the movie is about a girl growing up in a whorehouse and wanting to be like the women around her, feeling like she should be as they are. Having a terrible mother who allowed her to pursue as she wanted she grew up too quickly. While she should have bee. Playing with dolls instead she was aware of the desires of old horrible men. She was a grown woman sadly at o ly 12/13 yrs old. The movie's intention was to make you uncomfortable (im not going to stick up for that disgusting playboy shoot) but at the end of the movie you really felt for her. She was shoved back into a childhood she was meant to live but had seen too much and it was tragic. When this was made, majority of people were unaware that anyone alive in the God-fearing advanced time could be so sick as they were THEN. But sadly we all know better now. Effective movie, should have used am older actress. Poor Brooke even said in an interview that she would never allow her children to do this.

[@Kate-rm3px]

Sorry for the typos

[@robocock475]

I figured they could've casted Lea Thompson or Mare Winningham for that role; at least there both a little older and more mature

[@riddlesangerissues3127]

She’s 11 portraying an 11-year-old child prostitue.

[@jessicam5712]

The TV show Harlots has a daughters madam mother auctioning off her virginity but it was clear the daughter is at least in her late teens, but it's still a disturbing thing to do.

[@ellalovell9362]

What absolutely disgusts me is that these are grown men literally PAYING top money to take a little girls virginity? These men probably had little girls at this age and would lose their mind if something like this happened to their precious daughters 🤮🤮 poor Brooke Shields having to be exploited and be put into movies like this when she should have been playing princesses or a normal little girl with a loving family films/ TV shows and stuff like that if she wanted to be an actress at this age, but no, her exploitive and controlling mother made her be a young girl in a BROTHEL and a few years later, be in a film where she has a sexual relationship with her cousin and they have a baby together?!?! If that happened today, her life would have been made a a living hell and nightmare and Brooke would have been taken off of her there and then to be an actress and acting in stuff her own age or living the normal childhood/ teen life. That poor child bless her, very glad she is nothing like her mother 😭🤮 heartbreaking to be honest 💔💔

[@jordanthewizard]

In 1917 the age of consent in Louisiana was twelve.

[@chocolatemilk9363]

Jordan Herkowski gross

[@Sawrattan]

@@chocolatemilk9363 Our age of consent is 16, but that still means a 100 year-old man can legally bed a 16 year old girl... not sure that's any better 😂

[@Србомбоница86]

@@Sawrattan no , actually ,a 16 year old should be with their own age ,not someone older than 18 in my opinion

[@imbored1989]

Србомбоница I agree the legal age of consent in America is 18

[@halfdeadminah5857]

@@imbored1989 16 in Ohio.

[@Mindy-xh9zq]

her mother had her in movies like this for money

[@nooneofimportance934]

This makes me so sad and angry at the same time. This is so disturbing. Being sold of as a object for a man’s pleasure

[@nina1522]

Agreed. It's just nauseating.

[@LifeInPink999]

It’s sick all this man are probably married and will return to their wives and daughter (maybe the same age) of their own. I always wondered how men could do this specially those who have children of their own and then act all rightful and proper. I say could but I might as well say can not that there are legal houses with underage prostitutes but I bet that when someone pays for a girl they will want her as young as can get.

[@albertajnstajn9516]

That's a very weak and nonsensical argument. That's like saying I'm 40 and my sister is 40, so I shouldn't date 40 y.o. women because that would be like dating my sister. We date who we like, regardless of age. Dating m*nors will soon be normalised, so you should get used to it. Just like people had to get used to the LGBT being normalised.

[@wormyz2083]

How did this character in this film stay just so calm, as if it wouldn’t scar anyone for life?

[@alannazaritz5396]

because she’s been raised in that brothel and has never lived elsewhere

[@user-us3jy2mb5r]

Because this is all she's ever known :( she's like 11 here.

[@isabelmarie2003]

They could have made a 18 year old look a tad younger but know lets used a 11 year old

[@harrybriscoe7948]

best to use the real thing

[@gmailaccount1894]

Calm down people. Aishia was nine years old. Muhammed was in his fifties. A billion muslims are ok with that.

[@harrybriscoe7948]

they say Mary was 14 when she gave birth to Jesus

[@SashaMatthews-m7x]

This movie was so disgusting

[@robertjensen1048]

This story took place in 1917, in New Orleans. Yet here we are, 104 years later, and stuff like this--and worse---is STILL taking place every day, in places such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Thailand, Nigeria, and many other countries. Constantly.

[@elenapelayo1]

And the US.

[@Akrebgnogn]

And US, Russia, Poland, Germany, Paris too

[@luziferlindemannvonstrombe6495]

yes it is a controversial subject but PRETTY BABY is a beautiful film that was well done, at least watch it before you all lose your tiny minds !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@87scally]

My goodness!! Kids are suppose to be on movies like mary Poppins or something.. no.. poor shields

[@Iceis_Phoenix]

She is fresh as a baby's lips... Sick shit

[@mechellewinslow65]

The look on the men’s faces staring at her is just gross

[@loveshine7819]

From that first shot of the mens’ faces - just makes my stomach turn 🤢🤬😢

[@sarasartori6285]

Awww she's just adorable. Like a China doll. I just want to pick her up and take her out if that gross place being objectified for being a beautiful innocent girl. She's too precious awww. She's just a baby

[@jokezofwisdom5163]

“As fresh as a baby’s lips?” 🥺🤬😡😤

[@MarlitoInampo-dp8my]

She's so a very beautiful young girl🥺😍😍

[@PK-vk6wg]

This is so sad and the worse part is that in some places this still happens, I mean it breaks my heart seeing that woman are treated as merchandise, as objects, and specially kids :(

[@jrmetmoi]

This movie is dead wrong! Brooke Sheilds's mother is dead now but when she was alive she was dead wrong! And this was the 70s. This fulfils too many of Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter, Ian Watkins and R. Kelly's wishes!

[@arii1772]

jrmetmoi R KELLY-

[@KiraKhaii]

I’m the first person that is against cancel culture however, in these cases I think this movie should be banned. It’s so exploitative and glamorizes p**ophilia. It’s disappointing how Brooke Shields has never spoken out against it either.

[@ephebo2024]

how does it glamourise it exactly? why not ban pulp fiction it glamourise gangsters?

[@KiraKhaii]

@@ephebo2024 because it’s literal child p**n and pulp fiction isn’t????

[@Zzzk23]

I wonder if this is how Brooke felt when she realized this is what the movie was about.

[@Ilostmyfob]

Brooke Shields was always a highly intelligent person even at this age very smart little girl. It's funny I keep saying what do you guys think about Jodie Foster's situation. She played a prostitute in the movie Taxi driver. Just listen to some of that dialogue.

[@Zzzk23]

@@Ilostmyfob Jodie didn’t have to do nudity

[@Ilostmyfob]

@@Zzzk23 you're right about that. But I think Brooke wore when she said was a bodystocking.

[@underratedcritic1983]

The head mistress looks like that creature from 'Spirited Away.'

[@harrybriscoe7948]

She actually resembles the puppet from Madam's Place

[@anamericanman]

Ughhhh. Poor Brooke's young little spirit.

[@Susieq26754]

I was only 14 when this movie cane out. So I wasn't paying much attention to it. It looked boring to a teenager in the 80s. Today I look at it and think, the people who exploited this young girl need to be put in prison for a very long time. We must protect our children. At all costs.

[@DavidLS1]

@msmissy6888 And yet Brooke considers it her most important film.

[@missc2742]

Why tf is this in my recommended?

[@sagir74]

I checked, she was just 12 by then. This is child's exploitation nowadays and ever, but apparently it wasn't seen as an uncomfortable situation, at least not by her parents who must have given their consent. Today those who play that kind of role are over 18 but with baby faces, which I think is the acceptable way. If we also looked at the blue lagoon movie, she was still a minor. I wouldn't expose a child to that environment fictional or not.This scene is really disgusting to watch

[@yolandag5756]

The subject material is SUPPOSED to be disturbing, Louis Malle wasn’t romanticizing anything, just because it looks pretty doesn’t mean it was. There’s nothing actually pornographic about the movie, everything is suggested and it’s meant to highlight a sad, important period of time in U.S. history, stuff like this actually happened and it’s still happening.

[@ifsahussain1434]

This is disturbing disgusting like wtf

[@angiewolflove4040]

Her mother exploited her. That's all she thought about was getting money out of her own daughter. She never cared about Brooke This is sick and should never have been filmed..

[@jewel_throne2950]

I can’t believe it was acceptable to make a movie like this back then

[@angiewolflove4040]

@@jewel_throne2950 So many inappropriate things were accepted back then. I lived in those times and experienced some awful abuse.

[@albertajnstajn9516]

This looks too good to be true. She was a stunner and a true baddie. 😍

[@hardtechnoboy]

That's how they cast roles in Hollywood today....nothing has changed.

[@tz-mk1dg]

So true!!

[@creola2910]

Hardtechnoboy What do you mean?

[@ebonybryant5681]

The fact she was even allowed to act in this movie is weird and sick, I’m baffled that as her mom even allowed this

[@mariebrown5681]

I agree.

[@vintage_life]

This is more disturbing than Lolita

[@doloresduenas9882]

what kind of mom lets her daughter do a movie like this!!!

[@ashleylala4293]

This is deeply disturbing and tells me some things about the nature of men that I wish I didn't know.

[@charmainebalzan1857]

Ashley Lala and I could destroy the illusion right now/

[@charmainebalzan1857]

By stating every ill of human illusion.

[@imbored1989]

Ashley Lala remember it’s not just men who exploit children but it can be women too

[@jessicanicole3747]

I’m Bored stfu it’s mostly men we all know that

[@Mario-ch5qy]

The nature of men? We're all just sexual predators? What about the nature of some women? You don't say anything about them do you?