Pretty Woman 25th Anniversary: New Surprising Facts About the Movie
Emily Schmidt
Updated on March 29, 2026
*One of Garry Marshall's favorite lines: "You make $100 an hour and have a safety pin holding your boot up?"
*The lobby of the Regent Beverly Wilshire seen in the movie is a actually the old Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood. Unfortunately, the hotel has since been demolished.
*Marshall can't open doors with those hotel cards, so he had Richard Gere struggle with it because he always did.
*Marshall liked that Vivian had all those condoms—he hoped it showed safe sex.
*Garry Marshall wrote for I Love Lucy for three years, but he did not write the episode that Vivian watches on the floor. "We wanted Vivian to enjoy what an average person enjoyed."
*Julia Roberts' dog was making a lot of noise in the scene where Vivian first comes on to Edward in her bra and underwear, so they had to work around it.
*Marshall explained that when Vivian says she doesn't kiss on the mouth and Richard says, "Neither do I," it was so she wouldn't one-up him. "And now the boundaries were set."
*Marshall chose Vivian's last name to be Ward because it was the last name of his grandfather. "It was nostalgic for me," said Marshall.
*The hotel clerk at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel is Garry's daughter, Kathleen. She has also appeared in Marshall's other films, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, The Princess Diaries, etc.
*According to Marshall, Hector Elizondo has a different toupee for each character he plays.
*Richard Gere plays many instruments and wanted to play the piano in the movie.
*The "very sexual" piano scene had to be trimmed because it was too sexual, even though there was no nudity.