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11 unusual facts about Pretty Woman


Aleksey Mikhaylovich Mikhalyov

Among numerous films and cartoons, translated by him into Russian, are The Jungle Book, The Witches of Eastwick, Apocalypse Now, Pretty Woman and The Silence of the Lambs.

Bill Applebaum

Applebaum also had brief roles in the movie "Pretty Woman" and has guest starred on many television shows, including The Pez Dispenser, and The Pick of the television series "Seinfeld".

Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

Souter reasoned that the "amount and substantiality" of the portion used by 2 Live Crew was reasonable in relation to the band's purpose in creating a parody of "Oh, Pretty Woman".

The members of the rap music group 2 Live CrewLuke, Fresh Kid Ice, Mr. Mixx and Brother Marquis—composed a song called "Pretty Woman," a parody based on Roy Orbison's rock ballad, "Oh, Pretty Woman."

Fred Joaillier

FRED Paris Joaillier also made the "Pretty Woman" necklace specifically for the film.

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He persuades her to believe in her own worth, buying her a new outfit (which she compares to Pretty Woman) and convincing her that she can charge 50,000 pesetas instead of 5,000 as she had been.

NASA Astronaut Group 15

Group members adopted The Flying Escargot as their moniker, possibly in reference to the fact that two members of the group were from France, or in reference to the famous "flying escargot" scene in the movie Pretty Woman.

Pearls of Passion

"It Must Have Been Love" was later used with the reference to Christmas changed to a neutral winter reference ("It's a hard Christmas Day" was replaced with "It's a hard winter's day") in the movie Pretty Woman.

Star vehicle

With the demise of the studio system, star vehicles are less common in the movie business, although they continue to appear occasionally (e.g. Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, The Rock's The Scorpion King, or more recently Miley Cyrus' The Last Song).

Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin

In permitting parody without permission, the decision follows the previous United States Supreme Court decision in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. which ruled that 2 Live Crew's unlicensed use of the bass line from Roy Orbison's song "Oh, Pretty Woman" could constitute fair use even though the work was a commercial use, and extends that principle from songs to novels.

Tom Bernstein

These partnerships raised approximately $1 billion from 140,000 investors to finance films produced by The Walt Disney Company and Home Box Office, Inc. The 75 films financed by the Silver Screen partnerships include such box office successes as Beauty and the Beast (1991 film), Pretty Woman, The Little Mermaid (1989 film) and Three Men and a Baby.


Ethan Dettenmaier

After starting out in the mail room at Warner Bros., he landed a position with Bel-Air Productions and Producer Steven Reuther (Face Off, Pretty Woman) He went on to become a script doctor for Idiom Films and has since scripted work for Steven Seagal, Dark Horse Comics, producer Paul DeSouza and Jon Divens.

Luis José Santander

This production, which was produced by Venevision and had nothing in common storywise with the latter Hollywood hit "Pretty Woman", was a major hit all over Latin America propelling Sabntander and his female co-star, Ruddy Rodríguez, into super-stardom in the area.

Steven Reuther

He went on to produce and exec produce more than 35 films in partnership with Milchan, including the 1990 smash Pretty Woman, which launched Julia Roberts.