![]() ![]() The way the media discussed her verged on fetishistic, and she had already courted controversy with her starring role as a child prostitute in Louis Malle’s " Pretty Baby" (1978), a much better film. In the '70s, of course, Shields was famous for being so beautiful and so young. And besides, she’s not really playing a role so much as modeling, filling out a whisper-thin part with beauty. Her performance may not be great, but to call it the worst of that year is too harsh. ![]() Shields had the dubious achievement of winning the very first Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her role. She does a slightly better job than Christopher Atkins, who, as her cousin/lover (gross, but also kind of inevitable) Richard, delivers his lines woodenly. As Emmeline, a teen who knows only island life, Shields is tasked with making an archetypal naïf of a girl convincing. ![]()
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