Two more hints for some of the more obscure ones:
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)
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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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Iris Steensma was Jodie Foster’s character in Taxi Driver
You know Iris, Sport. Suck on this.
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Useless nitpick: assuming Lou was correct, Trading Places took place in Philadelphia, not NYC. True, the final trading scene was in NYC, but she worked as a hooker exclusively in Philly.
(My apologies: as a native Philadelphian and proud of it, I feel an annoying compulsion to correct those who think the movie was based in New York)
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You’re right. My apologies to Philadelphia and it’s fine commodity trading whore community.
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Y
Jane Avril (hint: a Gabor in a movie without Nicole Kidman)
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WAG: Zsa Zsa in the 1952 Moulin Rouge?
Hey! I got whores nobody’s guessin’ at!
Lorena Wood and Elmira Johnson
Stevie
Belinda Keaton
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]
Belinda Keaton
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The black sheep of the family on Family Ties?
[QUOTE=KayElCee]
WAG: Zsa Zsa in the 1952 Moulin Rouge?
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Dingdingdingdingding— you win a stuffed giraffe!
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]).
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
Dingdingdingdingding— you win a stuffed giraffe!
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]).
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John Leguizamo makes me loathe John Leguizamo. Sorry.
[QUOTE=muldoonthief]
David Drake & Eric Flint’s “An Oblique Approach” & following alternate history books?
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We have a winner ! ( and I love that series )
I am proud, proud I tell you, that my “Name That!” threads are starting to spawn imitators such as this one. 
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
(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)
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Irene Pappas in Zorba the Greek.
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]
Belinda Keaton
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Shelley Long in Night Shift.
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
Two more hints for some of the more obscure ones:
Coco, Denise & Simone (hint: Coco was also Chris Gaines)
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The “old French whore” skit from Saturday Night Live?
[QUOTE=Sampiro]
Coco, Denise & Simone (hint: Coco was also Chris Gaines)
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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.
Shelly Long is correct, from Night Shift. (Best line of the movie: “Feed mayonaise to tuna. Cut out the middle man!”
Hints for my others:
Lorena Wood and Elmira Johnson – theirs was a dusty existence
Stevie – her man was a shadow of his former self.
[QUOTE=Pixiesnix]
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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All right, other than for Mme. Hortense, btw.
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Shelly Long is correct, from Night Shift. (Best line of the movie: “Feed mayonaise to tuna. Cut out the middle man!”
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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.’
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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.
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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…”).
I might throw in:
Sadie Thompson
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Irene Pappas in Zorba the Greek.
Right river, wrong canoe.
Louisa “Lou” Dem Five. Hint-she’s bald, & is the owner of The Velvet Fist.