The Happy Hooker is a 1975 American biographical comedy film directed by Nicholas Sgarro[2][3] and starring Lynn Redgrave.

Observing how Carl does not help her take her bags off the airplane and his increasingly long morning routine and primping, Xaviera grows concerned he is not the man she thought he was.

Although it makes her feel like a prostitute, she realizes quickly that this may be her calling in life because she loves sex and money.

Xaviera prospers as a prostitute until she is shaken down by a corrupt police officer who takes her money and tries to rape her.

[4]On the other hand, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it one star out of four and wrote: If Horatio Alger were alive today, he would no doubt be appalled by The Happy Hooker, the story of a girl who gets started off on the right foot in life but, through pluck and endurance, makes bad... What all of this is supposed to prove is beyond me.