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Lady Gangster is a 1942 Warner Bros. B picture film noir directed by Robert Florey credited as "Florian Roberts", and was based on the play Gangstress, or Women in Prison, by Dorothy Mackaye who had spent ten months in San Quentin Prison of a one to three years sentence, and is a remake of the pre-Code film, Ladies They Talk About (1933). Jackie Gleason plays a supporting role.
Original Release
04/01/1942
US Release
04/01/1942
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Faye Emerson | Dot Burton / Dorothy 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 |
Directors
Writers
Anthony Coldeway, Dorothy Mackaye, Carlton Miles
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Faye Emerson | Dot Burton / Dorothy 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 | D.A. Lewis Sinton / Lewis Sinton |
| Peggy Diggins | Mary |
| Charles C. Wilson | Detective |
| William 'Bill' Phillips | Stew |
| Frank Mayo | Walker |
| Leah Baird | Prison Matron / Matron |
| Daisy Bufford | Black Prisoner |
| Ken Christy | Jordan - Bank Guard |
| Fred Kelsey | Cop Shooting Carey |
