Pretty Baby Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Pretty Baby is a song by Tony Jackson. It was first published as sheet music in 1916, but Jackson is remembered as playing and singing the tune at least some 5 years earlier. It was a Tin Pan Alley hit.
Pretty Baby is a 1978 historical fiction dramatic movie directed by Louis Malle. The screenplay was written by Polly Platt.
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Tagline: 1917. The red-light district of New Orleans. The story of the women. The photographer. And the prostitute's daughter.
In 1917, the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana. Hattie, a prostitute at the elegant home of Madame Nell, and her 12-year-old daughter Violet are the only ones awake when photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes by with his camera. He takes pictures of Hattie and he fascinates Violet. Over the next few months, Nell arranges for the auction of Violet's virginity, Hattie marries and goes to St. Louis leaving Violet behind, and Violet determines to marry Bellocq. Is this idyllic or is she just a girl wearing rouge, soon to return to childhood?
Performers include the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, James Booker, Kid Thomas Valentine, Raymond Burke, Louis Nelson, Louis Barbarin.Main Cast
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Film music
The soundtrack used many local New Orleans musicians playing in the jazz, ragtime, and blues style of the city in the early 20th century. A LP album of the soundtrack, also entitled "Pretty Baby", was issued in 1978 on ABC Records.
Academy Award for Original Music Score in the "Adaptation Score" category.