# Lady Gangster > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lady_Gangster > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lady_Gangster.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gangster > Source revision: 1346261983 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1942 film by Robert Florey Lady Gangster Directed by Robert Florey Screenplay by Anthony Coldeway Based on Women in Prison 1932 play by Dorothy Mackaye Carlton Miles Produced by William Jacobs Starring Faye Emerson Julie Bishop Cinematography Arthur L. Todd Edited by Harold McLernon Music by Various Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Release date June 6, 1942 (1942-06-06) Running time 62 minutes Country United States Language English ***Lady Gangster*** is a 1942 [Warner Bros.](/source/Warner_Bros._Pictures) [B picture](/source/B_picture) [crime film](/source/Crime_film) directed by [Robert Florey](/source/Robert_Florey), credited as "Florian Roberts". It is based on the play *Gangstress, or Women in Prison* by [Dorothy Mackaye](/source/Dorothy_Mackaye), who in 1928, as #440960, served less than ten months of a one- to three-year sentence in [San Quentin State Prison](/source/San_Quentin_State_Prison).[1][2][3][4] *Lady Gangster* is a remake of the [pre-Code](/source/Pre-Code) film, *[Ladies They Talk About](/source/Ladies_They_Talk_About)* (1933). [Jackie Gleason](/source/Jackie_Gleason) plays a supporting role. ## Plot Dorothy "Dot" Burton ([Faye Emerson](/source/Faye_Emerson)) is a member of a gang of bank robbers. Using her femininity and a cute dog provided her by her male cohorts, who dognapped him, she is able to enter a bank before opening time, leaving the door open and the bank guard holding her dog, thus enabling a successful robbery. When police interfere with the getaway, she faints and proclaims her innocence, but the police have strong doubts as "her" dog will not come to her and has a different name on his collar from what she calls him. After she confesses to her part in the robbery, she is sent to women's prison, where she makes an enemy of a fellow inmate who informs the governor that Burton knows where the bank's money is, thereby causing Burton to lose her parole. She is devastated by it but more trouble occurs as her old gang is going to kill her childhood sweetheart Ken Philips ([Frank Wilcox](/source/Frank_Wilcox)), so she escapes by stealing the warden's ([Virginia Brissac](/source/Virginia_Brissac)) clothes and getting revenge on her rival inmate ([Ruth Ford](/source/Ruth_Ford)) before finally rescuing Ken. ## Cast - [Faye Emerson](/source/Faye_Emerson) as Dorothy Drew Burton - [Julie Bishop](/source/Julie_Bishop_(actress)) as Myrtle Reed - [Frank Wilcox](/source/Frank_Wilcox) as Kenneth Phillips - [Roland Drew](/source/Roland_Drew) as Carey Wells - [Jackie Gleason](/source/Jackie_Gleason) as Wilson (as Jackie C. Gleason) - [Ruth Ford](/source/Ruth_Ford_(actress)) as Lucy Fenton - [Virginia Brissac](/source/Virginia_Brissac) as Mrs. Stoner - [Dorothy Vaughan](/source/Dorothy_Vaughan_(actress)) as Matron Jenkins - [Dorothy Adams](/source/Dorothy_Adams) as Deaf Annie - [William Hopper](/source/William_Hopper) as John (as DeWitt Hopper) - [Vera Lewis](/source/Vera_Lewis) as Ma Silsby - [Herbert Rawlinson](/source/Herbert_Rawlinson) as Lewis Sinton - [Charles C. Wilson](/source/Charles_C._Wilson_(actor)) as Detective - [Frank Mayo](/source/Frank_Mayo_(actor)) as Walker - [Leah Baird](/source/Leah_Baird) as Matron - [Jack Mower](/source/Jack_Mower) as Police Sergeant ## Soundtrack - "Blues in the Night" (Music by [Harold Arlen](/source/Harold_Arlen)) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Dorothy Mackaye Released from Prison"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7023905/dorothy_mackaye_paul_kelly/). *Delaware County Daily Times*. Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. January 2, 1929. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190407024613/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7023905/dorothy_mackaye_paul_kelly/) from the original on April 7, 2019 – via [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Coughlin_2-0)** Gene Coughlin, "Tragedies of the Stage", *Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph* (September 12, 1948), p. *American Weekly*, p. 7. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Dorothy Mackaye"](https://derangedlacrimes.com/?tag=dorothy-mackaye). *Deranged LA Crimes*. November 22, 2020. Retrieved April 6, 2022. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Convict-44960_4-0)** ["Convict No.44,960"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19280302&id=DvoaAAAAIBAJ&pg=6515,1525940). *[The Pittsburgh Press](/source/The_Pittsburgh_Press)*. [Pittsburgh, PA](/source/Pittsburgh%2C_PA). March 2, 1928. p. 3. Retrieved April 6, 2022. via [Google News Archive](/source/Google_News_Archive) ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Lady Gangster](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lady_Gangster). - [*Lady Gangster*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034959/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [*Lady Gangster*](https://web.archive.org/web/1/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3255/enwp) at the [TCM Movie Database](/source/Turner_Classic_Movies#TCMdb) (archived) - [*Lady Gangster*](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/27301) at the *[AFI Catalog of Feature Films](/source/AFI_Catalog_of_Feature_Films)* - [*Lady Gangster* at Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Lady.Gangster) v t e Films directed by Robert Florey One Hour of Love (1927) The Romantic Age (1927) Face Value (1927) The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928) The Hole in the Wall (1929) The Cocoanuts (1929) The Battle of Paris (1929) Skyscraper Symphony (1929) The Road Is Fine (1930) My Wife's Teacher (1930) Love Songs (1930) Black and White (1931) Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) The Man Called Back (1932) Those We Love (1932) Girl Missing (1933) Ex-Lady (1933) The House on 56th Street (1933) Bedside (1934) Registered Nurse (1934) Smarty (1934) I Sell Anything (1934) I Am a Thief (1934) The Woman in Red (1935) The Florentine Dagger (1935) Going Highbrow (1935) Don't Bet on Blondes (1935) Ship Cafe (1935) The Payoff (1935) The Preview Murder Mystery (1936) Till We Meet Again (1936) Hollywood Boulevard (1936) Outcast (1937) King of Gamblers (1937) Mountain Music (1937) This Way Please (1937) Daughter of Shanghai (1937) Dangerous to Know (1938) King of Alcatraz (1938) Disbarred (1939) Hotel Imperial (1939) The Magnificent Fraud (1939) Death of a Champion (1939) Parole Fixer (1940) Women Without Names (1940) The Face Behind the Mask (1941) Meet Boston Blackie (1941) Two in a Taxi (1941) Dangerously They Live (1941) Lady Gangster (1942) The Desert Song (1943) Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) Man from Frisco (1944) God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) Danger Signal (1945) The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) Rogues' Regiment (1948) Outpost in Morocco (1949) The Crooked Way (1949) The Vicious Years (1950) Johnny One-Eye (1950) Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951) This article about a 1940s crime drama film is a stub. 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