HAMILTON, POLLY (1908-1969)

John Dillinger’s Girlfriend

In 2009, a major motion picture was released where movie star Leelee Sobieski was featured as a woman born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota.  Sobieski played the role of Polly Hamilton, the girlfriend of John Dillinger.  Dillinger was played by Johnny Depp in the movie Public Enemies.  In the 1979 movie The Lady in Red, the character Polly Franklin, played by Pamela Sue Martin, was a highly fictionalized depiction of Polly Hamilton.