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Marked Woman (1937) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Michael Curtiz and Lloyd Bacon and produced by Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner and Louis F. Edelman.

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Classic Films in Focus: MARKED WOMAN (1937)

By Jennifer Garlen on Feb 4, 2014 From Virtual Virago

The world of the gangster movie is largely a boys' club, where women exist only as victims or commodities and the mobsters' guns serve as constant reminders of their phallic power. In opposition to that trend we have director Lloyd Bacon's very effective Marked Woman (1937), which features Bette Dav... Read full article


Classic Films in Focus: MARKED WOMAN (1937)

By Jennifer Garlen on Feb 4, 2014 From Virtual Virago

The world of the gangster movie is largely a boys' club, where women exist only as victims or commodities and the mobsters' guns serve as constant reminders of their phallic power. In opposition to that trend we have director Lloyd Bacon's very effective Marked Woman (1937), which features Bette Dav... Read full article


Classic Films in Focus: MARKED WOMAN (1937)

By Jennifer Garlen on Feb 4, 2014 From Virtual Virago

The world of the gangster movie is largely a boys' club, where women exist only as victims or commodities and the mobsters' guns serve as constant reminders of their phallic power. In opposition to that trend we have director Lloyd Bacon's very effective Marked Woman (1937), which features Bette Dav... Read full article


Marked Woman (1937)

By Beatrice on Sep 26, 2013 From Flickers in Time

Marked Woman Directed by Lloyd Bacon Written by Robert Rossen and Abem Finkel 1937/USA Warner Bros. First viewing Bette Davis is a sometime thing for me. ?This wasn’t one of those times. Mary Dwight (Davis) is a “hostess” at a nightclub/clip joint owned by ruthless gangster Johnn... Read full article


Marked Woman – 1937

By Bogart Fan on May 9, 2013 From The Bogie Film Blog

My Review —Pretty Good— Your Bogie Fix: ? out of 5 Bogies! Director: Lloyd Bacon The Lowdown This is the third Lloyd Bacon / Humphrey Bogart movie I?ve reviewed since starting the blog?? the first being Action in the North Atlantic,?and the second Brother Orchid?? and again, Bacon comes ... Read full article


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Mary Dwight Strauber: Betty. Betty, listen to me. You know, I've done an awful lot for you.
Betty Strauber: All you've ever done for me is mess up my life. Fixed it so the things that I wanted to have, I can't have anymore. All right. If I can't live one way, I can live another. Why not? I'm young and pretty and...
Mary Dwight Strauber: And dumb.
Betty Strauber: But you're smart. You can teach me the rest.


David Graham: I thought they were your friends.
Mary Dwight Strauber: So did I.


Mary Dwight Strauber: I'm sick of making deals.
Dorothy 'Gabby' Marvin: Well, you wanna keep on living, don't you?
Mary Dwight Strauber: If this is what you call living, I don't want any part of it. Always being afraid. Never knowing from one day to the next what's going to happen to you. I'm fed up with being afraid of Vanning or anybody else. There must be some other way for me to live. If there isn't, I... well, I'd just as soon put a bullet in my head right now and end it.


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Dedicated to realism, Bette Davis left the set when the makeup department outfitted her with dainty bandages for the hospital scene following the physical attack on her character by mobsters. She drove to her own doctor and instructed him to bandage her as he would a badly beaten woman. Returning to the set, she declared, "You shoot me this way, or not at all!" They did.
Screenwriters Rossen and Finkel capitalized on a sensational trial reported by the "New York Times" between May 14 and June 22, 1936 according to film historian Charles Eckert. Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey was the prosecutor and Charles "Lucky Luciano" Lucania his target. Dewey went on to become New York governor and a two-time Presidential candidate while Luciano went on to organize Dannemora, the New York dock workers, and the international drug trade. The women whose testimony led to a conviction left the House of Detention and were sent to Dewey's offices in the Woolworth Building, where they received sums ranging between $150 and $175 dollars, barely a half week's wages that they earned as prostitutes. Then, according to Eckert they "disappeared, as they do in the film, into the fog."
Humphrey Bogart and Mayo Methot fell in love during production. They were married as soon as he had divorced his second wife, Mary Philips.
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