Lady Gangster (1942)

• Director
  • Robert Florey
• Writers
  • Anthony Coldeway(screenplay)
  • Dorothy Mackaye(play "Gangstress, or Women In Prison")
  • Carlton Miles(play "Gangstress, or Women In Prison")
• Stars
  • Faye Emerson
  • Julie Bishop
  • Frank Wilcox

  The direction of Warner Bros.' Lady Gangster is credited to one "Florian Roberts," who on closer examination turns out to be veteran helmsman Robert Florey, working pseudonymously. Faye Emerson plays the title character, aspiring actress Dot Burton, whose chance association with a gang of bank robbers leads inexorably to a life of crime. She eventually ends up in prison, where she participates in a break-out. Her regeneration comes about when she rescues Kenneth Phillips (Frank Wilcox), the only man who has ever shown her any kindness, from being rubbed out by the mob. The supporting cast includes Julie Bishop (who only a year earlier had been billing herself as Jacqueline Wells), and Jackie "C." Gleason, wasted in the role of a rotund henchman. Lady Gangter bears some traces of the 1932 Warner Bros. drama The Life of Vergie Winters.