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Mary Evelyn "Billie" Frechette (September 15, 1907 – January 13, 1969) was an American woman known for her personal relationship with the bank robber John Dillinger in the early 1930s. Frechette is known to have been involved with Dillinger for about six months, until her arrest and imprisonment in 1934.
Winstead visits Frechette in prison; she already knows about Dillinger's death. He tells her that he thinks his dying words were, "Tell Billie for me, 'Bye, bye, Blackbird.'" Frechette sheds tears as Winstead leaves. Closing titles explain that Purvis quit the FBI a year later and committed suicide in 1960, and Frechette was released after two ...
It is written and directed by John Milius in his feature directorial debut, and stars Warren Oates as Dillinger, Ben Johnson as FBI Agent Melvin Purvis, and Michelle Phillips in her first film performance as Dillinger's moll Billie Frechette. Other actors in the film include Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, and Richard Dreyfuss.
Menominee County: Evelyn 'Billie' Frechette (1907-1969) Associate of mobster John Dillinger. ... Evelyn Frechette met notorious mobster John Dillinger at age 26 in 1933 and began a relationship.
After the breakup of the Mamas & the Papas and her divorce from John Phillips, she transitioned into acting, appearing in a supporting part in The Last Movie (1971) before being cast as Billie Frechette in the critically acclaimed crime biopic Dillinger (1973), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
Evelyn "Billie" Frechette: John Millius: Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer [3] [1] 1974 The Death Squad: Joyce Kreski Harry Falk: Television film [4] 1974 The California Kid: Maggie Richard T. Heffron: Television film [1] 1975 Shampoo: Girl at Party Hal Ashby: Uncredited [5] 1975 Miracle: Trixie Edward Ruscha: Short ...
Public Enemies (2009) – biographical crime drama film chronicling the final years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger as he is pursued by FBI agent Melvin Purvis, Dillinger's relationship with Billie Frechette, as well as Purvis' pursuit of Dillinger's associates and fellow criminals John "Red" Hamilton, Homer Van Meter, Harry ...
Mesmerizing Peter Frechette, center, plays many pivotal roles in "The Lehman Trilogy," a 3-and-a-half-hour drama at Zach Theatre. Here Frechette appears with Susan Lynskey and Nick Lawson.