Pretty Baby 1978 Starring Brooke Shields | Portable

Violet, played by the twelve-year-old Brooke Shields, sat on the railing of the crumbling clapboard house. She was a paradox made of flesh and lace—innocent eyes staring out from a face framed by curls, dressed in the silks of a woman twice her age. She swung her legs, bored, watching the madam, Hattie, pack a trunk.

(Shields), a young girl raised in a brothel in Storyville by her prostitute mother, Hattie (played by Susan Sarandon pretty baby 1978 starring brooke shields portable

"It talks," Violet said, her voice small, dropping the seductive affectation she used on the street. "Sometimes. When the wires aren't wet." Violet, played by the twelve-year-old Brooke Shields, sat

, is a controversial period drama set in the red-light district of 1917 New Orleans. While the film explores heavy themes of innocence and exploitation, the concept of "portable" versions of the movie has its own unique history. The Story of the "Portable" Pretty Baby (Shields), a young girl raised in a brothel

Pretty Baby is a stone in the shoe of cinema history—uncomfortable, impossible to ignore, and now, increasingly, small enough to fit in your palm. Whether that democratization of art is a triumph or a tragedy depends entirely on the eyes watching the screen.