Another Instance of Imitation?
Famous Hollywood actor Richard Gere brilliantly played in The
Cotton Club (directed by Francis Ford Coppola, produced by American Zoetrope, 1984)and
Pretty Woman (directed by Garry Marshall, produced by Touchstone Pictures, 1990). The
former portrays a jazzman with criminal connections and the latter actually promotes prostitution. But, few moviegoers in the West know that these feature films were preceded by
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