1. Pretty Woman was originally titled
$3,000 (the amount Vivian was paid for the week). However, the title was
confusing to the audience and they thought the movie was about a hooker on the
moon.
2. Meg Ryan was their first choice to
play Vivian, but she turned down the role. In fact, many other actresses were
chosen before Julia
Roberts, including Kim Basinger, Melanie
Griffith, Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeiffer, Heather Locklear, Diane Lane and
more.
3. Julia's head was actually
superimposed on body double Shelley Michelle for the Pretty Woman movie poster.
4. When Richard Gere is asking for
directions in the beginning of the movie, you are actually hearing director
Garry Marshall's voice because the real actor was out of the country when they
had to re-film the line.
5. Next time you watch the movie,
you'll notice that Vivian rarely sits down on a chair. They purposely did that
to show Vivian felt more comfortable sitting on the floor or on top of
furniture thanks to her profession.
6. When Edward fires Stuckey, you can
see Richard Gere's tongue moving around his mouth because a crown was knocked
off his molar during the scene.
7. Did you know Pretty Woman is a
Disney movie? Shocking!
8. Director Garry Marshall placed his
daughter in the movie. She plays the front desk clerk at the hotel.
9. All of the scenes filmed on Rodeo
Drive were done on Sundays since the city has strict filming rules on that
street. You can't take away their business hours during the week!
10. The Beverly Wilshire Hotel where
the movie takes place used to be an Auto Speedway where cars raced. In 1928,
the Beverly Wilshire Apartment Hotel opened.
11. Julia Roberts was only 22 years old when this movie released in
March 1990. That month Roberts ended her relationship with Dylan McDermott and
started dating Kiefer Sutherland AKA Jack Bauer.
12. Hector Elizondo, the hotel manager,
and Garry Marshall have worked together on 14 different films including Georgia
Rule, Beaches, and The Other Sister.
13. The original plan was to shoot the
opera scene in San Francisco, however, an earthquake forced them to quickly
relocate to the history museum by USC.
14. Pretty Woman was one of Hank
Azaria's first movie roles ever! He played a detective in the flick, and we now
know him as David on Friends and many of the voices on The Simpsons.
15. In the dinner scene when Vivian
flings the snail across the room, the waiter says, "It happens all the
time." Garry Marshall thought it would be fun to cast the same actor with
the same line in The Princess Diaries.
16. Mistake alert! In the scene after
their first night together, Julia is eating a croissant at breakfast. When they
cut back to her, she is eating a pancake instead.
17. The infamous necklace scene wasn't
actually planned. Julia wasn't feeling well so to make her laugh, Richard shut the
case and her reaction was so perfect they kept it in the movie.
18. Julia prepared for her role as
Vivian by spending two weeks at a free clinic on Hollywood Boulevard.
19. Originally, Vivian was supposed to
be addicted to cocaine and part of the deal is that she isn't allowed to do
drugs during the week. Also, at the end of the movie, Vivian was supposed to
find Kit had overdosed on drugs while she was with Edward.
20. Richard Gere was actually playing
the piano in the movie and he was playing a piece that he composed himself.
21. Garry Marshall's son directed the
entire polo match scene in the movie.
22. During the sex scene, Julia was so nervous that a vein popped out
of her forehead. Garry Marshall got into bed with her and Richard and rubbed
the vein on her head until it disappeared.
23. When they filmed the scene with
Julia talking about wanting to be a princess who's rescued from a tower, they
still hadn't written the movie's ending where Edward "rescues"
Vivian.
