Day 7 of The Daily Dish: There’s Nothing Like a Dame

Soup’s on — it’s time for The Daily Dish! Today, I’m serving up Favorite Femme Fatale – one of my favorite aspects of film noir. There are so many conniving, intelligent, seductive dames from which to select a favorite. You’ll forgive me, I hope, for naming just a few of my top candidates: there’s Kathie Moffat, who was the queen of self-preservation in Out of the Past (1947); Decoy‘s (1946) Margot Shelby (1946), who had a one-track mind if ever I saw one; and Jane Palmer from Too Late for Tears (1949), who turned “keeping up with the Joneses” into an art form. But if you know anything at all about me, you may have guessed that my pick has to be Phyllis Dietrichson, the deadly femme in my favorite film noir, Double Indemnity (1944). In a nutshell, this feature centers on insurance agent Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), who falls for Phyllis, and the two team up to murder Phyllis’s husband – and collect a cool $100,000 insurance payoff. She’s my favorite. I will not be taking questions at…

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