Let's see....

Herr Schickelgruber's rise to power, Mussolini, Japanese incursions into China, the Panay, the Great Depression, the Spanish civil war, the absolute mess of European colonial rule in Africa, various and sundry brushfires around the world in the prelude to full on war in World War 2......not a whole lot I can call "romantic" in that decade.

Bonnie and Clyde were only one of many criminals in the 1930s who attained pop culture status, mainly due to the "taking to the man" descriptions of their actions.