Pretty Woman celebrates its 25th anniversary on Monday. The unlikely Cinderella story starringJulia Roberts and Richard Gere—she’s a fresh-faced prostitute, he’s a silver-fox financier—is one of the most beloved films of the genre. While most of us know the lines by heart (and still sing "Kiss" while taking a bubble bath), here are fifteen tidbits you probably never knew about the rom-com.
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That’s not Julia Roberts’s body on the poster.
The film’s iconic poster, on which a scantily clad Roberts is grabbing Gere by the necktie, was actually a clever work of Photoshop. Shelley Michelle, Roberts’s body double in the film, was the one striking a pose; Roberts’s head was later superimposed.