 Adjusted for inflation, these sums record a remarkable history of accomplishment for a woman who arrived in New York City at the turn of the 20th century, alone, illiterate and completely impoverished.Lillian Harris Dean retired to California and died in 1929.Loretta Devine portrays a highly fictionalized version of Dean in the 1997 movie "Hoodlum"; she is a gangster's girlfriend who is murdered by her lover's enemies.