Event Film and Video Screenings Marked Woman (1937)

MARKED WOMAN (Warner Bros., 1937). Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Screenplay by Robert Rossen and Abem Finkel. With Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell, Rosalind Marquis, Eduardo Ciannelli. (95 min, black & white, 35mm print from the UCLA Film & Television Archive)

A district attorney persuades a nightclub hostess to testify against her gangland boss. Loosely based on the case of mobster Lucky Luciano, who was convicted in 1936 of running a prostitution racket following an investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Thomas A. Dewey. By that time, the Production Code was in full enforcement mode necessitating several alterations to the facts of the case, including a change of the women's profession from prostitutes to nightclub hostesses. “Marked Woman” was Bette Davis’s first film after her unsuccessful court case against Warner Bros. and self-imposed exile in England. The New York Times critic Frank S. Nugent wrote that the studio celebrated the “prodigal’s return” by offering up “a dramatically concise script, a shrewd director and an extremely capable supporting cast.”

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