The Working Girls (1974)

Interesting facts

The Working Girls is a 1974 sexploitation film written and directed by Stephanie Rothman and starring Sarah Kennedy, Laurie Rose and Cassandra Peterson.

Production

The finance came from a motion picture distributor in Canada who wanted a film along the lines of The Student Nurses, an earlier film from writer-director Stephanie Rothman. "He wanted me to make another film about a group of attractive young women who lived together and about their adventures," said Rothman.

The $103,000 budget was the smallest she had to work with as a director. Rothman said "I was hired to do as a pretty, sexy, graphically strong (I hope), comic film.

Rothamn said the title was ironic in that the leads all "had higher aspirations than they were at the current time able to achieve". She felt the title "would probably be a commercial asset, you know, in the advertising campaign but I was not personally interested in implying that these people were, in any sense, prostitutes."

Rothman said the film was "about the quest for identity that we are all on when we are young. It is a serious film about three underemployed young women who no one takes seriously enough. By the film’s end, they have learned such life lessons as an open heart can lead to the warmth of friendship, the impermanence of love and the pain of loss; desire for the wrong man is not good for one’s ethics or ambitions; and most surprising of all, learning…

She elaborated: "I tried to make it as comedic and as energetic and provocative as I could, and to throw in as many ideas as I could, about what it meant to be young and female and ambitious in a world that did not particularly approve of ambition in young women."

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