Lady Gangster (1942)
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
- Date of release
- 1942-04-01
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (23)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Robert Florey
Casting
- Faye Emerson — Dot Burton
- Julie Bishop — Myrtle Reed
- Frank Wilcox — Kenneth Phillips
- Roland Drew — Carey Wells
- Jackie Gleason — Wilson
- Ruth Ford — Lucy Fenton
- Virginia Brissac — Mrs. Stoner
- Dorothy Vaughan — Jenkins
- Dorothy Adams — Deaf Annie
- William Hopper — John
- Vera Lewis — Ma Silsby
- Herbert Rawlinson — Lewis Sinton
Interesting facts
Lady Gangster is a 1942 Warner Bros. B picture crime film directed by Robert Florey, credited as "Florian Roberts". It is based on the play Gangstress, or Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye, who in 1928, as #440960, served less than ten months of a one- to three-year sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Lady Gangster is a remake of the pre-Code film, Ladies They Talk About (1933). Jackie Gleason plays a supporting role.
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