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The hooker with a heart of gold (also the whore or stripper with a heart of gold or the tart with a heart) is a stock character in which a fallen woman, a prostitute who sells sex for cash or drugs, is in fact a kindly and internally wholesome person. This character is often a pivotal, but peripheral, character in literature and motion pictures, usually giving key advice or serving as a go-between. She is sometimes established in contrast to another female character who is morally perfect but frigid or otherwise unyielding. The stereotype owes a debt to Mary Magdalene1 Examples
- Gloria ( Doris Dowling ) in " The Lost Weekend"
- Iris Steensma ( Jodie Foster) in Taxi Driver
- Lana ( Rebecca De Mornay) in Risky Business
- Linda Ash ( Mira Sorvino) in Mighty Aphrodite
- Ophelia ( Jamie Lee Curtis) in Trading Places
- Poppy ( Sissy Spacek) in Prime Cut
- Sera ( Elisabeth Shue) in Leaving Las Vegas
- Vivian Ward ( Julia RobertsJulia Roberts (born October 28, 1967) is an American actress. She was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the title role in the movie Erin Brockovich''. Born Julie Fiona Roberts in Smyrna, Georgia, Roberts received worldwide fame with P) in Pretty Woman, that also shares traits of CinderellaGustave Dore's illustration for Cendrillon ''This article is about the fairy tale. In philatelic usage, a cinderella is a label resembling a regular postage stamp, but that is not valid for prepayment of postage: see artistamp. Cinderella is also a hard r and the PygmalionPygmalion is a Greek name, probably going back to Phoenician roots. Pygmalion or Pygmaion according to Hesychios of Alexandra is probably a Cypriote form of Adonis, a Levantine vegetation-god. Bearers of the name include: # Pygmalion, king of Tyre, brothe myth.
- Never on SundayNever on Sunday (also known as Pote Tin Kyriaki ) is a 1960 black-and-white film which tells the story of Ilya, a prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in Greece, and Homer, an American tourist — a classical scholar enamored with all things Greek. shows a somewhat different character
- Fllay Allster in Gundam SEED
- Donna BeckDonna Beck (full name Donna Beck Tyler Cortlandt Sago Tyler was a character on the long-running American soap opera All My Children''. Donna, played by Candice Earley from 1976 to 1992, was originally slated to be a short-term role of a teenage runaway an on All My ChildrenAll My Children is a popular American soap opera which has been broadcast every Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5, 1970. Originally a half-hour in length, the show moved to an hour in 1977. The show has taped over nine thousand e
2 See also
Lists of fictional characters
Stock characters
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