Ladies They Talk About

Ladies They Talk About
Theatrical release poster by Alberto Vargas
Directed by
Screenplay by
Based onWomen in Prison (play) by
Dorothy Mackaye
Carlton Miles
Produced byRaymond Griffith (uncredited)
Starring
CinematographyJohn F. Seitz
Edited byBasil Wrangell
Music byCliff Hess (uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • February 4, 1933 (1933-02-04) (US)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Ladies They Talk About is a 1933 pre-Code American crime drama directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, and Lyle Talbot. The film is about an attractive woman who is a member of a bank-robbery gang. It is based on the play Gangstress, or Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles. In 1928, Dorothy Mackaye, #440960, served less than ten months of a one- to three-year sentence in San Quentin State Prison.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ "Dorothy Mackaye Released from Prison". Delaware County Daily Times. Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. January 2, 1929. Archived from the original on April 7, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ Gene Coughlin, "Tragedies of the Stage", Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph (September 12, 1948), p. American Weekly, p. 7.
  3. ^ "Dorothy Mackaye". Deranged LA Crimes. November 22, 2020. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  4. ^ "Convict No.44,960". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2, 1928. p. 3. Retrieved April 6, 2022. via Google News Archive