Marked Woman Page #3

Synopsis: In this roman-a-clef for the infamous Lucky Luciano Trial, Mary Dwight and four roommates work as hostesses at the Club Intime, a "clip joint" that offers gambling, liquor, and female companionship to the "big spender" clientèle. When ruthless thug and pimp Johnny Vanning takes over all the clubs in town, the girls are forced to follow Vanning's rules and kick back on their "tips" in exchange for protection. Although she is not a hardened old hand like Gabby and Estella, Mary knows enough to sidestep Vanning's amorous advances. Unfortunately the more naive Mary Lou is impressed by Vanning's oily veneer of materialism and accepts invitations to "entertain" at the gangster's private parties. Mary's naive younger sister Betty arrives from college just when Mary and her roommates are arrested as material witnesses in the murder of one of the casino's non-paying customers. Vanning's corrupt lawyer frees the others but pressures Mary to commit perjury in order to discredit crusading District
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
APPROVED
Year:
1937
96 min
198 Views


- That's what I call service.

I believe you ordered for the party.

You might as well add this to it.

- That's a lot of party. Where are the others?

- They got a bit tight and left with the girls.

- Thanks.

- Come on, honey, let's go.

- Cab.

- Yes, sir.

Good night.

Need a cab?

Tail that cab.

- Boy, they sure took me to the cleaners.

- You had a good time, didn't you?

Never had a better time in my life.

I'd like to do it all over again.

- Well, I guess you can afford it.

- Afford it?

- What's so funny?

- You were thinking I can afford it.

Listen, sister, I don't make

that much money in a year...

...let alone spend it.

You mean that you haven't

got the money to pay off?

No, not a red cent.

I was just putting on an act.

Boy, I'd like to see the look on their faces

when they try to cash that check.

- Will that be funny.

- Yeah, like a funeral. Yours.

And that's what you're going to have

if they don't get their money.

What are you talking about?

You're messing with the toughest gang

in town. They'd cut your throat for a dime.

So you can imagine what they're

going to do to you for that kind of money.

Say, are you kidding me?

Well, if you don't believe me,

stick around and find out.

Well, what am I gonna do?

You got enough money

to pay your hotel bill?

I paid that in advance.

Got my railroad ticket too.

Well, use it.

Check out of that hotel...

...and grab the first train home

before it's too late.

- Good night.

- Good night.

- Remember what I told you.

- Oh, I will.

- Mary.

- Yeah?

Mary, l... I haven't even got enough

to pay for the cab.

- Here.

- Thanks. I'll send it to you.

- What's your address.

- Forget it.

No, no, no.

Please, write it down here.

All right.

Oh, gee, you're swell.

I don't know why.

A sap like you deserves to be taken.

I guess you must bring out

the mother instinct in me.

Now, go on, get in. Hurry.

- Good night, chump.

- Good night.

- Be careful.

- All right.

Take him to Waldorf-Ritz

and step on it.

- Good night.

- Good night.

- Hello, McGrew.

- Hiya.

Mind if we park here for a while?

Gotta keep an eye on one of those guys

you sent till we can get his check through.

- How much did you take him for?

- Plenty.

Yes, sir, 319?

Yes, sir. Right away.

He's checking out.

Pennsylvania Station.

What a night.

Oh, does it feel good

to stand up and stretch.

Good morning.

- What's good about it?

- You all look as if you had hangovers.

No, stomachaches.

I never ate so much chop suey in my life.

Me neither. One more dish and I'd have

put my hair in a braid and opened a laundry.

Well, I like chop suey.

- You like anything.

- What happened?

Well, our boyfriends' idea

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Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. He won the Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. In 1961 he directed The Hustler, which was nominated for nine Oscars and won two. After directing and writing for the stage in New York, Rossen moved to Hollywood in 1937. There he worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. until 1941, and then interrupted his career to serve until 1944 as the chairman of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization, a body to organize writers for the effort in World War II. In 1945 he joined a picket line against Warner Bros. After making one film for Hal Wallis's newly formed production company, Rossen made one for Columbia Pictures, another for Wallis and most of his later films for his own companies, usually in collaboration with Columbia. Rossen was a member of the American Communist Party from 1937 to about 1947, and believed the Party was "dedicated to social causes of the sort that we as poor Jews from New York were interested in."He ended all relations with the Party in 1949. Rossen was twice called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in 1951 and in 1953. He exercised his Fifth Amendment rights at his first appearance, refusing to state whether he had ever been a Communist. As a result, he found himself blacklisted by Hollywood studios as well as unable to renew his passport. At his second appearance he named 57 people as current or former Communists and his blacklisting ended. In order to repair finances he produced his next film, Mambo, in Italy in 1954. While The Hustler in 1961 was a great success, conflicts on the set of Lilith so disillusioned him that it was his last film. more…

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