''Me, Gangster'' is a 1928 American silent crime film directed by Raoul Walsh. It stars

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, Don Terry,

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and a young Carole Lombard.

Cast

as Mary Regan * Don Terry as Jimmy Williams *

as Russ Williams * Carole Lombard as Blonde Rosie *

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as Lizzie Williams * Herbert Ashton as Slicker * Joe Brown as himself *

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as Danish Louie * Al Hill as Danny *

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as Police Capt. Dodd

Production

During the shooting of the picture, only one copy of the script existed, in the possession of director Raoul Walsh.

Casting

Don Terry, appearing on his debut in the film, was discovered at Hollywood's '' Café Montmartre'' by Fox screenwriter Charles Francis Coe who happened to see Terry and thought of the screenplay he had just completed. However, Coe introduced himself to Terry and asked if he was in the film industry. He gave Terry his business card and invited him to the Fox lot for a screen test. Terry went to the Fox lot expecting only to finally be able to see some film stars. When Terry's screen test came out of the film laboratory, he was signed as the lead in ''Me, Gangster'', the screenplay Coe had just written. An article in ''

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'' notes that Carole Lombard's casting in ''Me, Gangster'' finally eased the pressure her family had been putting on her to succeed. She would go on to become a leading Hollywood starlet in the 1930s.

Preservation status

*No prints appear to survive making it a

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film. The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:''..Me Gangster''
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References

External links

''Me, Gangster''
at the

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