Dan Aykroyd
Louis Winthorpe III
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Ophelia is a prostitute who befriends Louis Winthorpe III, a wealthy executive who is swindled by two con men. She helps him expose the scam and regain his fortune in this comedy film. See photos, quotes, and trivia about her role.
Jun 8, 1983 · Jamie Lee Curtis plays Ophelia, a prostitute who helps Eddie Murphy's character Billy Ray Valentine when he is framed by two wealthy brothers. She is one of the main cast members of this comedy film about social satire and rags to riches.
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- Comedy
- John Landis
- 1983-06-08
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Brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke own a commodities brokerage firm, Duke & Duke Commodity Brokers, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Holding opposing views on the issue of nature versus nurture, they make a wager and agree to conduct an experiment—switching the lives of two people on opposite sides of the social hierarchy and observing the results. ...
• They’re not just getting rich… They’re getting even. • Some very funny business. • Take two complete strangers, make one of them rich the other poor… just watch the fun while they’re… TRADING PLACES
→ According to John Landis, Jamie Lee Curtis was a hard sell to “Paramount,” because she had only done horror films and wasn’t known for comedy. → While she was making this movie, Jamie Lee Curtis stayed in Marlene Dietrich’s apartment (12E) at 993 Park Avenue in Manhattan. She’d been engaged to Dietrich’s grandson, production designer J. Michael R...
♦ The only thing I’ve got going for me, is this body, this face, and what I got up here. I don’t do drugs. And I don’t have a pimp. ♦ [Ophelia notices Louis watching her undress] By the way, food and rent aren’t the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch. ♦ [reading Louis’ palm] You’ve never done a day’s work in your life.
Box office. $120.6 million. Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker (Aykroyd) and a poor street ...
Trading Places - Apple TV. Available on AMC+, AMC, Pluto TV, Philo, Prime Video, Sling TV. The fun begins when the rich and greedy Duke Brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet over whether born loser Valentine (Eddie Murphy) could become as successful as the priggish Winthorpe (Dan Akroyd) if circumstances were reversed.
- John Landis
- Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis
Dec 10, 2023 · Jamie Lee Curtis credits Trading Places with changing her career trajectory, leading to her later Oscar win. Learn how director John Landis fought to cast her, and what she said about working with Eddie Murphy.
An employee of the Dukes, Winthorpe is framed by the brothers for a crime he didn't commit, with the siblings then installing the street-smart Valentine in his position.
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