Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in the still from the Pretty Woman (1990)
Woody Allen and Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite (1995).
Why strippers and prostitutes in Hollywood movies are smart, glamorous women with model looks? Why there are not depicted as ugly, stupid slobs? If you think this is the norm, think twice. The painters of the Weimar period who, probably, were closer to them socially and physically (I mostly mean crammed, urban quarters of post-WWI Germany) depicted them much more frequently according to the second stereotype.
George Grosz. Suicide.
Rudolf Schlichter. Tingel Tangel.
