Dangerous Beauty

Veronica Franco, a young woman faced with poverty in Venice, becomes a courtesan to provide for her familys financial needs, impresses influential men, confronts jealousy and an attack, seduces the King of France for a military alliance, faces accusations of witchcraft, but ultimately reconciles with her love Marco and they stay together. Dangerous Beauty is a 1998 American English-language Biography Drama film starring Catherine Mccormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt, Moira Kelly, Fred Ward, Jacqueline Bisset and Ralph Morse. The movie is inspired from The Honest Courtesan by Margaret Rosenthal. Regency Enterprises in association with Bedford Falls Productions. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick, Arnon Milchan and Sarah Caplan. Dangerous Beauty is written by Margaret Rosenthal, Jeannine Dominy, Sarah Caplan, Marshall Herskovitz, Debra Lovatelli, Paolo Lucidi, Arnon Milchan, Michael G. Nathanson, Stephen Randall, Edward Zwick and Inigo Lezzi and it is directed by Marshall Herskovitz. Warner Bros. acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Dangerous Beauty was released on 22nd April 1999 and takes a screen time of 112 minutes. Dangerous Beauty was made on a budget of $8 million and at the box office it grossed only $4 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Jeannine Dominy. Cinematography was done by Bojan Bazelli and editing by Steven Rosenblum. The music was composed by George Fenton.