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Hooker with a heart of gold

The hooker with a heart of gold (also the 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.

Examples in movies

• Poppy (Sissy Spacek) in Prime Cut
• Iris Steensma (Jodie Foster) in Taxi Driver
• Ophelia (Jamie Lee Curtis) in Trading Places
• Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) in Pretty Woman
• Sera (Elisabeth Shue) in Leaving Las Vegas
• Linda Ash (Mira Sorvino) in Mighty Aphrodite
• Gloria (Doris Dowling) in "The Lost Weekend"
• Never on Sunday shows a somewhat different character

See also

• List of famous prostitutes and courtesans

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