# Name That Fictional Whore
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 17, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412 "2007-05-17T05:19:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/1 "2007-05-17T05:19:39Z")
# You know the drill. Honor system: no googling. Where the character’s last name is not given I’ve given hints).
Coco, Denise, & Simone (hint: game show & Rommel)
Belle Watling (easy peasy)
Gigi Van Tranh
Ophelia (last name unknown but worked in NYC, early 1980s, invested in commodities)
Vivian Ward
Big Ed (female, western)
Violet (Louisiana, 1917)
Kitty Russell
Joanie Stubbs
Gigolo Joe
Nameless trio of prostitutes played by Lily Tomlin, Jodie Foster, & Kathy Bates
Hortense (hint: won an Oscar for actress, early 1960s)
Roseanne D’Arcy
Scott Favor
Jane Avril (hint: a Gabor in a movie without Nicole Kidman)
V (hint: kids with no mom)
Fred Garvin
Rowena (southern, initiates WW2 GI)
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/2 "2007-05-17T05:22:25Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
Ophelia (last name unknown but worked in NYC, early 1980s, invested in commodities)
[/QUOTE]
Jamie Lee Curtis’ character in _Trading Places_.
Mind if I add a few more?
Iris Steensma
Gail, Wendy, and Miho (and Wendy had a sister.)
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### Author:  [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/3 "2007-05-17T05:24:35Z")
Fred Garvin, male prostitute–SNL
Belle Watling–Gone with the Wind
V–Milk Money?
Hortense–The Bad Seed?
Rowena–Bilouxi Blues
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### Author:  [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/4 "2007-05-17T06:35:15Z")
Kitty Russell - Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke.
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### Author:  [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/5 "2007-05-17T10:25:47Z")
Roseann D’Arcy - “A Patch of Blue” (Shelley Winters). Man - I hated her in that movie - she’s a _great_ actress 😃
VCNJ~
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/6 "2007-05-17T11:12:18Z")
Here’s some; all from fantasy/sci fi :
Lata & Dhruva Holkar
X-23
Virginia Usher \*
Annette
Antonina \*
Bethra
Lilly
- Former prostitutes, backstory
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### Author:  [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/7 "2007-05-17T11:24:45Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs]
Antonina
[/QUOTE]
This could be _Count Bellisarius_, but I suspect that’s not what you’re looking for.
New contender:
Sally Stokes
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/8 "2007-05-17T11:33:49Z")
[QUOTE=Aspidistra]
This could be _Count Bellisarius_, but I suspect that’s not what you’re looking for.
[/QUOTE]
I’ll give a .5 score to you anyway; right character, wrong book & author. The hazards of using characters from fictionalized history. Anyone care to guess which version of Antonina I was thinking of ?
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/9 "2007-05-17T11:41:15Z")
Eccentrica Gallumbits
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### Author:  [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/10 "2007-05-17T11:49:33Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm]
Eccentrica Gallumbits
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…the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon 3
(Hitchhikers)
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/11 "2007-05-17T12:10:54Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs]
Here’s some; all from fantasy/sci fi :
Lata & Dhruva Holkar
X-23
Virginia Usher \*
Annette
Antonina \*
Bethra
Lilly
- Former prostitutes, backstory
[/QUOTE]
What, and you miss out Halrloprillalar Hotrufan?
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/12 "2007-05-17T12:57:24Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra]
What, and you miss out Halrloprillalar Hotrufan?
[/QUOTE]
:smack: I should’ve thought of her. _Ringworld_, of course.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/13 "2007-05-17T13:28:24Z")
Ronette Pulaski
Nandi
Satine
Hookerbot
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### Author:  [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/14 "2007-05-17T13:44:49Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
Vivian Ward
[/QUOTE]
Pretty Woman
[QUOTE=Otto]
Nandi
[/QUOTE]
Inara’s friend from Firefly
How about:
Patty
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/15 "2007-05-17T13:51:41Z")
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine]
How about:
Patty
[/QUOTE]
Stranger In A Strange Land - Heinlein
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### Author:  [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/16 "2007-05-17T13:55:52Z")
[QUOTE=silenus]
Stranger In A Strange Land - Heinlein
[/QUOTE]
That’s actually not the Patty I was thinking of.
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### Author:  [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/17 "2007-05-17T13:55:58Z")
Tra La La?
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### Author:  [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/18 "2007-05-17T14:01:47Z")
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine]
That’s actually not the Patty I was thinking of.
[/QUOTE]
The Daytime Whore from _Earl_?
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### Author:  [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/19 "2007-05-17T14:08:16Z")
[QUOTE=UncleRojelio]
The Daytime Whore from _Earl_?
[/QUOTE]
That’s her, Patty the Daytime Hooker. “Want to take a ride on the Patty wagon?”
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### Author:  [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-whore/404412/20 "2007-05-17T14:26:52Z")
_Gigolo Joe:_ Jude Law’s whorebot from _A.I._
_Nameless trio of prostitutes played by Lily Tomlin, Jodie Foster, & Kathy Bates:_ from Woody Allen’s _Shadows and Fog_
_Hortense (hint: won an Oscar for actress, early 1960s):_ Jane Fonda’s character from _Klute_?
My contribution:
Joe Gillis.
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