Ladies They Talk About is a 1933 pre-Code American crime drama directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, and Lyle Talbot.

In 1928, Dorothy Mackaye, #440960, served less than ten months of a one- to three-year sentence in San Quentin State Prison.

[1][2][3][4] Nan Taylor is a member of a gang of bank robbers, posing as a regular customer to distract the security guard while her accomplices take the money.

Unlike many other films of the women-in-prison genre, Taylor's fellow inmates are genuine criminals, rather than innocents in prison by mistake.

[5] The New York Times said, "When a reformer and a dashing female bank bandit fall in love, their home life may be somewhat as illustrated in the lingering finale of Ladies They Talk About, [...] After a torrid argument in which Nan, the gun-girl, accuses her beloved of frustrating a jail-break in which two of her pals were killed, she loses her temper, draws a gun from her handbag, and shoots him.