Hope Dare (Born Rose Luetzsinger in Fairfield, Ohio) was a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl who, in 1934, fell in love with a married mobster Richard "Dixie" Davis,

Raised in Las Vegas, she attended the Immaculate Conception School and took dance lessons. When she was seventeen she moved to Los Angeles, married a much older promoter and got herself named "Miss Southern California" in a beauty contest and danced in the Fanchon & Marco stage shows.

When her husband died following an appendectomy in 1929, she moved to New York and appeared in the Broadway show Melody and starred in the 1932 film “She Wanted a Millionaire” In 1934 she started dancing with the Ziegfeld Follies where she met the married mob lawyer Dixie Davis.

Dixie had been an adviser and attorney to Dutch Schultz and after the Syndicate killed Schultz in 1935, Davis was hounded by special prosecutor Thomas Dewy, who was desperate to make a name for himself as a law-and-order man to fill out his dreams of becoming President.

Dewy indicted Dixie in 1937 and he and Hope went into hiding, moving from New York to Las Vegas to Philadelphia they were discovered after a year. Asked to explain why he was with Hope Dare and not his wife he answered, “The redheads always get them, don’t they?”

He then turned state’s evidence, did some jail time, got disbarred, divorced his wife and married Hope in 1939 and left for LA bankrolled by Davis’s fortune, no doubt most of it belonging to Dutch Schultz. As the Dutchman’s lawyer, Davis had direct access to the bootlegger's fortune.

They had two two children and opened an ice-cream store in Los Angeles. She filed for divorce in 1943 but they reconciled.

In December of 1969 two masked gunmen came to the Davis’s Bel-Air mansion, tied up Hope and her 3-year-old grandson, Joe Davis and the maid, and stole thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry. When Dixie, then 65 years old, and his son Barkly Daivs, returned home found them tied up and the house ransacked, Dixie sat on the couch and suffered a heart attack and died.

Hope later moved back to Henderson, Nevada where she died on March 31, 1999, at age of eighty-nine.