Word: mallee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yet two of the most memorable portrayals in recent films were of twelve-year-old prostitutes, and they were played by girls who really were twelve?Brooke Shields in Louis Malle's misty legend of 1917 New Orleans, Pretty Baby, and Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese's contemporary shocker, Taxi...
The mood on the Pretty Baby set was quite different. Shields recalls that Director Malle "usually talked to my mother, not me. She'd come back and tell me what he said. He was afraid to talk to me, I think. In the beginning, on the set, no one knew...
She is just sweet 13 but already Brooke Shields has played a prepubescent prostitute in Louis Malle's movie Pretty Baby. For her next role in Wanda Nevada, precocious Brooke is cast as an aspiring singer named Wanda who escapes from a Nevada orphanage and roams the West with...
Pretty Baby--This is one of the most talked-about films of this year. It is also one of the worst films of this year, recommended only for people, with Roman Polanski-esque leanings. As you probably read in People or the National Enquirer or something, Pretty Baby features the...
Pretty Baby. The come-on was irresistable. Brooke Shields--the 12 year old prepubescent tart of our most secret fantasies. And Louis Malle--the man who might have done for the topic of child prostitution what he did with the incest taboo in "Murmur of the Heart." But the product...