The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
The Happy Hooker is a 1980 American film that follows the real life of Xaviera Hollander, a famous Dutch prostitute writing her bestseller book about her profession which attracts the attention of a studio executive who attempts to adapt it into a movie who have creative differences and she decides to make the film on her own despite sabotage.
- Directed by Alan Roberts, co-screenplay adapted by Devin Goldenberg based on novel The Happy Hooker written by Xaviera Hollander.
Dialogue
[edit]- Chris: [In jealousy of Lionel's affair with Xaviera] What? You think you're such a big man, taking freebies from a whore?
- Lionel Lamely: That's really ugly, Chris.
- Chris: Well, you're not so cute yourself.
- Xaviera Hollander: Let's dance. [Gets up, taking Lionel's hand]
- Lionel Lamely: Yowza!
- Warkoff: [To Xaviera] I'm willing to let bygones by like spilled milk, so why don't you let sleeping dogs do that and let me make it up to you?
- Rita Beater: So, eh, tell me, Cinderella...
- Xaviera Hollander: It's not Cinderella, it's Xaviera.
- Rita Beater: If you prefer, I wasn't aware that you could pronounce it both ways.
- Xaviera Hollander: You can't.
Cast
[edit]- Martine Beswick as Xaviera Hollander
- Chris Lemmon as Robby Rottman
- Adam West as Lionel Lamely
- Richard Deacon as Joseph Rottman
- Phil Silvers as William B. Warkoff
- Charles Green as George
- Lisa London as Laurie
- Alexandra Morgan as Max
- Tanya Boyd as Sylvie
- Susan Kiger as Susie
