Wome of Noir #51: Anne Dusenberry, Jeff Bridges and especially John Heard become ensnared in a conspiracy in Cutter's Way (Passer, 1981)

Women of Noir #50: Ella Raines comes to the aid of Alan Curtis in The Phantom Lady (Siodmak, 1944)

Women of Noir #49: Melanie Griffith fails to seduce Paul Newman in The Drowning Pool (Rosenberg, 1975)

Women of Noir #48: Veronica Lake temporarily buddies up with Brian Donlevy in The Glass Key (Heisler, 1942)

... but only temporarily...

Women of Noir #47 Maxine Cooper sizzling (almost literally) with Ralph Meeker in Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)

Women of Noir #46 Lucille Ball helps out Mark Stevens in The Dark Corner (Hathaway, 1946)

Women of Noir #45 Can Gloria Grahame be sure of Bogart's intentions? In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1950)

Women of Noir #44 Dolores Del Rio getting involved with Joseph Cotton in Journey Into Fear (Foster and Welles, 1943)

Women of Noir #43 Lizabeth Scott comes between Van Heflin and Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Milestone, Haskin and Wallis, 1946)

Women of Noir #42 Lucia Bosé and Alberto Closas hide the truth in Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955)

Women of Noir #41 Dorothy McGuire on The Spiral Staircase (Siodmak, 1946)

Women of Noir #40 Molly McCarthy reminds Allen Baron that he's human in Blast of Silence (Baron, 1961)

Women of Noir #39 Jennifer Beals' secret is out (Devil in a Blue Dress, Fanklin, 1995)

Women of Noir #38 Agnes Moorhead. Jealous? Me? Dark Passage (Daves,1947)

Women of Noir #37 Beatrice Pearson gets The Late John Garfield Blues in Force of Evil (Polonsky, 1948)

Women of Noir #36 Shelley Winters regrets meeting John Garfield in He Ran All The Way (Berry, 1951)

Women of Noir #35 Doomed Carole Landis between Alan Mowbray and Victor Mature in I Wake Up Screaming (Humberstone, 1942)

Women of Noir #34 Tara Reid makes Jeff Bridges an offer in The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)

Women of Noir #33 Jean Gabin has his head turned fatally by Mireille Balin in Pépé le Moko (Duvivier, 1937)

Women of Noir #32 Lizabeth Scott caught out with Dick Powell in Pitfall (DeToth, 1948)