Thanks, Ron. It's fun to make connections. One thing I wanted to work in was that the femme fatale in the 1931 is played by Bebe Daniels, who plays the Other Woman in a couple of Cecil B. DeMille's "marriage problem" movies from 1920 and 1921. The roots of the femme fatale character of noir do seem to be in certain kinds of silent melodrama.
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Date: 2008-08-03 11:32 pm (UTC)