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    Happy Hooker, The (1975)

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    This non-pornographic film about a pornographic subject was based on Xaviera Hollander’s autobiography about her life as a prostitute.

    Dutch girl Xaviera Hollander (Lynn Redgrave) emigrates to New York to marry but is abandoned by her bad apple fiancé, Carl (Nicholas Pryor), who is obsessed with his mother (Elizabeth Wilson).

    Xaviera takes a well-paid secretarial job at the Dutch Embassy and an apartment and starts sampling the local male talent.

    happyhooker5After a while, she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello.

    Soon she realises she has the right talents and ambitions – she loves sex and money – to make a real success of a place of her own.

    After a while, she becomes the most successful madam in New York City and buys out the business of her former madam, Madeleine (the delightfully named Lovelady Powell) as well.

    There is leather, there are chains, there is whipped cream and champagne and even the ingredients of a super sundae – all to keep the customers happy.

    All is well until a corrupt cop (Richard Lynch) instigates a raid, sending her to prison. Xaviera’s attorney bails her out of jail and sets her up with a friend of his who is coming in from Montreal.

    Two diminishing-returns sequels followed – The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington (1977) and The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980). Lynn Redgrave wisely steered clear of both.

    happyhooker2Xaviera Hollander
    Lynn Redgrave
    Yves St. Jacques
    Jean-Pierre Aumont
    Madeleine
    Lovelady Powell
    Carl Gordon
    Nicholas Pryor
    Mrs Gordon
    Elizabeth Wilson
    J. Arthur Conrad
    Tom Poston
    Fred
    Conrad Janis
    Dick Tracy
    Richard Lynch
    Lt. Taggart
    Owen Hollander
    Henry Knowlton
    Lee Wallace
    Chet
    George Dzundza
    Steve
    Kenneth Tigar
    Rosita
    Dorothi Fox
    Dirty Harry
    Barton Heyman
    Albert Ruffleson
    Matthew Cowles
    Aurora
    Pal Henry
    Nadine
    Sharon Laughlin
    Lina Jo
    Anita Morris
    April
    Darlene Parks
    Chris
    Trish Hawkins
    Lucille
    Donna Mitchell
    Cynthia
    Denise Galik
    Norma
    Rochelle Oliver
    Rosie
    May Olga
    Carlos
    Guillermo Irizarry
    Lo-la
    Wilhelmina Ross
    Blue Hair
    Marilyn Thomas
    Cowgirl
    Adrian James
    Red Hat
    Chip Fields
    Tinker Bells
    Lauren Simon
    Carla
    Joan T. Scott
    Tinch
    Inga Bunsch
    Ryan
    Frank Aldrich
    Wilkins
    Lou Bedford
    Petulia
    Florence Tarlow
    Suzanne Knowlton
    Gwendolyn Saska-brown
    Mr. Gordon
    Robert Dryden
    Alex
    John Ramsay
    Sonia
    Jane Marie Scileppi
    Senator
    Dan Resin
    Benson Garfield
    Shanton Granger
    John Burden
    Alek Primrose

    Director
    Nicholas Sgarro

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