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Prostitute | Photographer
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Best Music Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score | 1979
Best Cinematography | 1978 | Sven
Best International Actress | 1978 | Brooke
Box Office Collection 5,786,368 USD
Years after Brooke Shields starred in the film, she studied French Literature at Princeton University. Ironically, her 1987 senior thesis, written during her final year, was entitled "The Initiation: From Innocence to Experience: The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Journey in the Films of Louis Malle, Pretty Baby (1978) and Lacombe, Lucien (1974)", meaning she wrote about a film she herself had starred in.
The screenplay was based on the first-hand recollections of the operations of New Orleans' "Red Light" prostitution district published in the book "Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red Light District" by Al Rose. The book contains many of photos of New Orleans prostitutes taken by E.J. Bellocq, the character played by Keith Carradine in the movie.
Labeled as "child porn" both by the cover of People magazine and popular gossip columnist of the time, Rona Barrett, the movie sparked complete outrage among audiences, even becoming banned in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Saskatchewan. Brooke Shields declared to People magazine at the time. "It's only a role. I'm not going to grow up and be a prostitute." When Vanity Fair asked her in 2018 if she regrets starring in the controversial flick, she said "It was the best creative project I've ever been associated with. The best group of people I've ever been blessed enough to work with." Director Louis Malle refuted the criticism, stating to People, "Anybody who calls it child pornography has not seen the damn thing ... nymphet and Lolita rub me the wrong way."
In a scene Brooke Shields was given a g-string so she would not have to be totally nude.
Tatum O'Neal was offered the role of Violet, but her father Ryan O'Neal made her turn down the role.
"Bellocq: Her father unknown, and her mother deserted the child. Violet: My mother's name was Hildegarde. Hildegarde Marr. M-A-R-R. Priest: And she was Caucasian, or other? Violet: She was a whore, Father."
"Nell: There's only two things to do on rainy days, and I don't like to play cards."
