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    Dangerous Beauty

    R1998 · Historical drama · 1h 51m

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  1. Dangerous Beauty is a 1998 American biographical drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz and starring Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, and Oliver Platt. Based on the non-fiction book The Honest Courtesan by Margaret Rosenthal, the film is about Veronica Franco , a courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice who becomes a hero to her city, but ...

  2. Feb 20, 1998 · The Veronica Franco depicted in the film was a real person. She was born in 1546 and died in 1591, at the age of forty-five. She was the most famous courtesan in Italy, but she was also famous for her satire and for her poetry.

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    • Biography, Drama, Romance
    • Marshall Herskovitz
    • 1998-02-20
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  4. Feb 27, 1998 · It's based on the true story of Veronica Franco, a well-born Venetian beauty who deliberately chose the life of a courtesan because it seemed a better choice than poverty, or an arranged marriage to a decayed nobleman.

  5. Veronica Franco : We danced our youth in a dreamed-of city. Venice. Paradise. Proud and pretty We lived for love and lust and beauty. Pleasure then our only duty. Floating then 'twixt heaven and earth.

  6. When Veronica Franco comes of age, she cannot marry Marco Venier, whom she loves, because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan. She steels her heart, and with beauty and intelligence becomes the best.

  7. Watch Dangerous Beauty with a subscription on Hulu. Veronica (Catherine McCormack) is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier (Rufus Sewell),...

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  8. Overview. Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men.

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