Marshall died in 2016 at 81 of complications from pneumonia following a stroke.
Sadly, a few key members of the crew who could speak most to the ins and outs of the film’s locations have passed on. Pretty Woman filmed from the Valley to downtown and, of course, Hollywood to Beverly Hills. Originally much darker and called 3000-the amount of money exchanged between Vivian (Roberts) and Edward (Gere) for services rendered- Pretty Woman transformed into the ultimate romantic comedy when film and TV titan, the late Garry Marshall, grabbed the directorial reigns. It made Roberts-then 22 years old-a household name, and it made Touchstone Pictures (Disney) over $460 million across the globe on a budget of $14 million. Released on March 23, 1990, the urban fairytale about a Hollywood Boulevard hooker falling in love with a lonely, tough-as-nails New York businessman has enchanted the world for the last 30 years. Though we didn’t see Julia Roberts or Richard Gere that night, and though I wouldn’t realize it until years later, this was the making of Pretty Woman. Lights and ladders surrounded a silver Cadillac stretch limousine as people buzzed about. There in front of the Beverly Wilshire hotel was everything an imaginative eight-year-old boy in Hollywood dreamed of. One summer evening, after popping a nickel in the counter-affixed jukebox at the Beverly Hills location at the corner of Beverly Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard, my dad and I drove down Beverly and made a right-hand turn on Wilshire Boulevard. in the late ’80s was complete without a meal at the ultimate knockoff ’50s burger stand, Johnny Rockets. were punctuated with retro-kitsch dining experiences, including a traditional after-landing-at-LAX late-night stop at Ed Debevic’s on La Cienega and lunch at Hard Rock Café at the Beverly Center.
When I was a kid, our family trips to L.A.
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