Pretty Baby (1978)

Our librarian goes back to the brothels of New Orleans Storyville for the story of a little girl learning to be a little girl despite growing up very fast.

Banned

1978 - Argentina - labeled by the Videla regime as "pornographic"

1978 - 1983 - South Africa - banned due to apartheid restrictions

1978-1995 - Ontario, Canada - banned by the film board but overturned in 1995

Sources

Malle, Louis (dir.) Pretty Baby. Paramount Pictures, 1978.

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