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. Lady Gangster is a remake of the pre-Code film, Ladies They Talk About (1933). Jackie Gleason plays a supporting role.PlotDorothy "Dot" Burton (Faye Emerson) is a member of a gang of v. 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), so she escapes by stealing the warden’s (Virginia Brissac) clothes and getting revenge on her rival inmate (Ruth Ford) before finally rescuing Ken.Cast    Faye Emerson as Dorothy Drew Burton    Julie Bishop as Myrtle Reed    Frank Wilcox as Kenneth Phillips    Roland Drew as Carey Wells    Jackie Gleason as Wilson (as Jackie C. Gleason)    Ruth Ford as Lucy Fenton    Virginia Brissac as Mrs. Stoner    Dorothy Vaughan as Matron Jenkins    Dorothy Adams as Deaf Annie    William Hopper as John (as DeWitt Hopper)    Vera Lewis as Ma Silsby    Herbert Rawlinson as Lewis Sinton    Charles C. Wilson as Detective    Frank Mayo as Walker    Leah Baird as Matron    Jack Mower as Police Sergeant