Coco, Denise & Simone (hint: Coco was also Chris Gaines)
(Madame) Hortense: the actress who played her won an Oscar for the role (though wasn’t famous) and later reprised the role in 1980s B’way musical strarring Anthony Quinn)
Yep, she played the prostitute/love interest of Toulouse Lautrec (Jose Ferrer [who played the role on his knees and in a manner that’ll make you loathe John Leguizamo]).
Chris Gaines, ISTR, was a fictional persona of Garth Brooks, but I’m not a Brooks fan and I can’t imagine when/why he would have posed as a female prostitute named Coco.
I liked Michael Keaton’s diagram of prostitute. ‘PRO’ because we’re for it, and ‘TIT’ because that’s self explanatory, and the rest of the stuff doesn’t mean anything.’
Brooks played an aging French prostitute on a Saturday Night Live gameshow parody called OLD FRENCH WHORE. Three young contestants were teamed with old French whores to answer Jeopardy style questions; the other two old French whores were skanky and drugged, but Coco was refined, intelligent, and had once been the personal concubine of General Rommel. (Best line of the sketch was when a player not teamed with Brooks/Coco remarked “I think my whore’s dead…”).