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Hollywood film studios even made several movies inspired by his exploits ; Marked Woman starred Humphrey Bogart as a Dewey-like DA and Bette Davis as a " party girl " whose testimony helps convict the gang boss.
Davis began work on Marked Woman ( 1937 ), as a prostitute in a contemporary gangster drama inspired by the case of Lucky Luciano.
Set in the underworld of Manhattan, Marked Woman tells the story of a woman who dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Although she lost the lawsuit, she garnered considerable press coverage, and Marked Woman was the first script she filmed upon returning to Hollywood.
Despite the disclaimer at the beginning of the film that asserts that the story is fictitious, Marked Woman is loosely based on the real-life crimefighting exploits of Thomas E. Dewey, a District Attorney for Manhattan who became a national celebrity in the 1930s, and two-time Republican Party presidential nominee in the 1940s, due to his fight against organized crime in New York City.
Dewey's dramatic achievements led Hollywood film studios to make several films about his exploits ; Marked Woman was one of the most prominent.
Marked Woman went into production on December 9, 1936 at the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank under the working title " The Men Behind ".
She was usually cast as unsympathetic second leads and tough-talking " dames " of Warner's contemporary crime melodramas such as Jimmy the Gent and Marked Woman, where she met Humphrey Bogart.
She played stereotypical gangster's women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama ( 1934 ) and Marked Woman ( 1937 ).
Abem Finkel, who had contributed to the screenplays for Marked Woman and Jezebel, worked on the dialogue but received no screen credit for his efforts.
Marked by the appearance of Kodama's Forest, every known Makamou appears at the same time, increasing in massive numbers to the point where not even the " Man and Woman " can control them.
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