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Title: John Dillinger

Description: John Dillinger (John Herbert Dillinger; June 22, 1903-July 22, 1934?); American gangster; Dillinger was allegedly shot to death on the night of July 22, 1934 by FBI agents as he left the Biograph movie theater in Chicago with two women, Mrs. Anna Sage (Ana Cumpanas, birth day and month unknown, 1889-April 25, 1947), nicknamed the "Woman in Red" because she was reportedly wearing a red dress (actually it was orange) while leaving the Biograph movie theater with a man alleged to be Dillinger, and another woman, Polly Hamilton Keele (Edythe "Polly" Hamilton Keele, 1909-1969), when FBI agents reportedly shot this person to death upon leaving the theater (the shooting was actually performed by East Chicago, Indiana police officer Martin Zarkovich, according to author Jay Robert Nash); Sage was a prostitute and Keele the former wife of a Gary, Indiana, policeman; Mrs. Keele claimed she informed police where Dillinger would be that night, but two years later, Mrs. Sage insisted she had tipped off police that Dillinger would be at the Biograph that night, saying she "put John Dillinger on the spot;" the movie Dillinger saw that night was Manhattan Melodrama (U.S. 1934 film), a cops and gangster drama with Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy; Sage, who was deported to her native Rumania following the shooting, later claimed that she would reveal the true identity of the man shot outside the Biograph, but was murdered a short time later after making those remarks in 1947;

Location: Chicago, Illinois, 1934

Keywords: American gangster, Biograph theater, Ana Cumpanas, John Dillinger, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, gangsters, Gary, Indiana, Polly Hamilton Keele, Anna Sage, the Woman in Red, shootings, Manhattan Melodrama, 1930s, Great Depression.