Bessie Starkman

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Significance of Bessie Starkman

Bessie Starkman was a gangster in the 1920's in Hamilton, Ontario. Immigrants Bessie Starkman and Rocco Perri -- she's Jewish, he's Italian -- meet, and she soon leaves her husband and daughters for a life of rum-running, murder and bootlegging.



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