# Let's list some famous fictional prostitutes
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 10, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534 "2007-12-10T20:45:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/1 "2007-12-10T20:45:33Z")
Inspired by [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9257494&postcount=41) post:
Belle Watling has to be one of the most famous fictional hookers. How many others can you name?
By whore, I don’t mean “kept woman” (Sister Carrie) or loose woman (Aunt Sissy in “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”). Only women whose profession is sleeping with many men for cash.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/2 "2007-12-10T20:48:02Z")
Emile Zola’s _Nana_
A prostitute was prominent in _The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon_, but I don’t remember her name.
Surprised I can’t think of more!
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### Author:  [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/3 "2007-12-10T20:51:58Z")
Don’t know if she counts as famous, but how about Vivian Ward from _Pretty Woman_?
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### Author:  [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/4 "2007-12-10T20:54:12Z")
[Fanny Hill](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill), of course.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/5 "2007-12-10T20:54:49Z")
Whatsherface from _The Crimson Petal and the White_.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/6 "2007-12-10T20:55:09Z")
Ophelia, the hooker in **Trading Places** , played by Jamie Lee Curtis.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/7 "2007-12-10T20:58:11Z")
Moll Flanders in the novel of the same name.
Mary Magdalene in any number of Biblical epics, perhaps most notably _The Last Temptation of Christ_.
Jack the Ripper’s victims (based on real historical women) in the graphic novel _From Hell_.
Liza Minelli’s character in _Arthur_.
Miss Kitty from _Gunsmoke_ (although she was extremely discreet about it).
Practically the entire female casts of \*Deadwood \* and _The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas_.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/8 "2007-12-10T20:58:00Z")
[Irma la Douce](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057187/). Not one of Wilder’s more lauded films, but a great favourite of mine.
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### Author:  [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/9 "2007-12-10T21:00:47Z")
Lorena Wood, from Larry McMurtry’s _Lonesome Dove_
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/10 "2007-12-10T21:02:56Z")
Bree Daniels from **Klute**
Lana in **Risky Business**
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/11 "2007-12-10T21:03:59Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Moll Flanders in the novel of the same name.
Mary Magdalene in any number of Biblical epics, perhaps most notably _The Last Temptation of Christ_.
Jack the Ripper’s victims (based on real historical women) in the graphic novel _From Hell_.
Liza Minelli’s character in _Arthur_.
Miss Kitty from _Gunsmoke_ (although she was extremely discreet about it).
Practically the entire female casts of \*Deadwood \* and _The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas_.
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Only three names here: Moll Flanders, Mary Magdalene and Miss Kitty. The only other one I can name from memory is Miss Mona from “Whorehouse.”
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/12 "2007-12-10T21:06:09Z")
Lorene (aka Alma), Prewitt’s love interest in _From Here to Eternity._
I always suspected Flämmchen, in _Grand Hotel_, didn’t _just_ work as a temp secretary.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/13 "2007-12-10T21:10:58Z")
Holly Golightly
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/14 "2007-12-10T21:11:55Z")
Sadie Thompson in _Rain_.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/15 "2007-12-10T21:15:25Z")
Nancy from Oliver!
Surely someone in Les Mis is a ho. Oh and what’s her name from Miss Siagon and the female cast of The Life.
Satine from Moulin Rouge!
Kulte
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### Author:  [@Amok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amok)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/16 "2007-12-10T21:19:16Z")
Mildred, the primary love interest in Somerset Maugham’s _Of Human Bondage_ ends up a street walker, so I suppose she counts. She’s not a prostitute for most of the novel though.
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/17 "2007-12-10T21:22:17Z")
Fantine in Les Misérables.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/18 "2007-12-10T21:23:20Z")
Stephen Crane’s “Maggie A Girl of the Streets.”
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### Author:  [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/19 "2007-12-10T21:25:30Z")
Sera (Elizabeth Shue) in _Leaving Las Vegas_
And Lana from _Risky Business_
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-some-famous-fictional-prostitutes/429534/20 "2007-12-10T21:32:59Z")
Cassiopeia the “socialtor” turned medical technician in the original **Battlestar Galactica**.
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