“The Colony was a plush place, controlled by Lansky and his frequent associate in casino operations, Dino Cellini. It quickly became the ‘in’ place to go for English and visiting society. Raft was always in the limelight, appearing each evening in a tuxedo, meeting people, signing autographs, and dancing with awed women.
Later Raft would confide to friends that his days at the Colony were the happiest of his life. As he put it to informer Vinnie Teresa, ‘Vinnie, those were the best days I’ve had in years. I had a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, beautiful women with me every night, a beautiful penthouse apartment in the Mayfair area, and five hundred dollars a week”.

From what I know mum and dad were sometimes chauffeured to film premieres in that Rolls-Royce. But that’s a story for another day or another book (it wasn’t in my book Jews Milk Goats – Amazon!).

A ludicrous plot but fun to watch. They don’t make them like that anymore (the films – but I don’t know about the gangsters).