Do you remember Jane Fonda in Klute? Academy Award Best Actress Baby! You want an award- play a sex worker!!!!
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Love that film!
I'll see you Jane and raise you Donna.
Donna Reed, in From Here to Eternity, the quintessential 'hooker with a heart of gold' ... one of the greatest tropes in movie history.
Hollywood in the early 1930s was forced by political pressure from both Washington and Catholic religious groups to censor itself - or be censored by outsiders. So, for several years, much that might have been made explicit, even identifying a character as a sex worker, could only be suggested subtly.
A good example is From Here to Eternity, one of the most famous Hollywood films of the 1950s.
In the souce novel by James Jones, Oscar-winning Donna Reed's character is explicitly a SW at a brothel, but in the film, she is changed to a "hostess" at a "private social club."
Nevertheless, the effect is much the same ...