Lady Gangster

Lady Gangster
Directed byRobert Florey
Screenplay byAnthony Coldeway
Based onWomen in Prison
1932 play
by Dorothy Mackaye
Carlton Miles
Produced byWilliam Jacobs
StarringFaye Emerson
Julie Bishop
CinematographyArthur L. Todd
Edited byHarold McLernon
Music byVarious
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Release date
  • June 6, 1942 (1942-06-06)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.[1][2][3][4] Lady Gangster is a remake of the pre-Code film, Ladies They Talk About (1933). Jackie Gleason plays a supporting role.

  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 6 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Convict No.44,960". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2, 1928. p. 3. Retrieved 6 April 2022. via Google News Archive