"Bad girl movies" are a subcategory, mostly, although not exclusively, of films noir, labeled by latter-day movie buffs to describe dark films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, but some earlier, and others later, starring provocative, scheming, sexy, usually beautiful, but compelling even when not, women, almost always on the wrong side of both the spirit and the letter of the law. Whether larcenous, murderous, vengeful, or depraved, they rarely redeemed themselves unless at death's door. Some very early and much later exemplars got away with their crimes, but most paid, one way or another. These film's posters usually featured sexy artwork of the actress, posed seductively. Currently, these images in original posters and reproductions are as valued as are the films themselves.
Such performances include:
- Bebe Daniels in The Maltese Falcon (1931)
- Jean Harlow in Red-Headed Woman (1932)
- Myrna Loy in Thirteen Women (1932)i>
- Frances Dee in Blood Money (1933)
- Margaret Lindsay in The House on 56th Street (1933)
- Barbara Stanwyck in Ladies They Talk About (1933), Double Indemnity (1944), and Crime of Passion (1957)
- Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage (1934), The Letter (1940), Beyond the Forest (1949), and Another Man's Poison (1951)
- Loretta Young in Born to Be Bad (1934)
- Wendy Barrie in The Saint Takes Over (1940)
- Ida Lupino in They Drive by Night (1940) and Lust for Gold (1949)
- Mary Astor in The Maltese Falcon (1941; remake of 1931 film)
- Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face (1941)
- Betty Field in Blues in the Night (1941)
- Wynne Gibson in Double Cross (1941) and My Son Is Guilty (1939)
- Faye Emerson in Lady Gangster (1942)
- Patricia Morison in Calling Dr. Death (1943), Dressed to Kill (1946), and Song of the Thin Man (1947)
- Anne Baxter in Guest in the House (1944), All About Eve (1950), Bedevilled (1955), and The Come On (1956)
- Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Uninvited (1944)
- Claire Trevor in Murder, My Sweet (1944) and Born to Kill (1947)
- Ann Blyth in Mildred Pierce (1945)
- Kay Francis in Allotment Wives (1945)
- Lynn Merrick in Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945)
- Gertrude Michael in Allotment Wives (1945)
- Ann Savage in Apology for Murder and Detour (both 1945)
- Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
- Veda Ann Borg in Accomplice (1946)
- Ava Gardner in The Killers (1946), The Bribe (1949) and My Forbidden Past (1951)
- Jean Gillie in Decoy (1946)
- Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
- Martha Vickers in The Big Sleep (1946) and The Burglar (1957)
- Janis Carter in Framed (1947)
- Jane Greer in Out of the Past (1947) and Station West (1948)
- Jayne Meadows in Lady in the Lake (1947)
- Lizabeth Scott in Dead Reckoning (1947) and Too Late for Tears (1949)
- Alida Valli in The Paradine Case (1947)
- Joan Bennett in Scarlet Street (1948)
- Leslie Brooks in Blonde Ice (1948)
- Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
- June Vincent in Shed No Tears (1948)
- Dorothy Hart in Undertow (1949)
- Virginia Mayo in Flaxy Martin (1949)
- Lauren Bacall in Young Man with a Horn (1950)
- Peggy Cummins in Gun Crazy (1950)
- Faith Domergue in Where Danger Lives (1950)
- Joan Fontaine in Born to Be Bad (1950)
- Laurette Luez in D.O.A. (1950)
- Audrey Totter in Tension (1950)
- Jane Wyatt in The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
- Angela Lansbury in Kind Lady (1951) and Please Murder Me (1956)
- Beverly Michaels in Pickup (1951)
- Christine Norden in The Black Widow (1951)
- Jan Sterling in Ace in the Hole (1951) and Female on the Beach (1955)
- Gloria Grahame in Sudden Fear (1952), The Big Heat (1953) and Human Desire (1954)
- Marilyn Monroe in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) and Niagara (1953)
- Cleo Moore in On Dangerous Ground (1952) and One Girl's Confession (1953)
- Jean Simmons in Angel Face (1952)
- Peggie Castle in I, the Jury (1953)
- Jean Peters in A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
- Gaby Rodgers in Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
- Simone Signoret in Les Diaboliques (1955)
- Barbara Hale in The Houston Story (1956)
- Jane Russell in The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
- Marie Windsor in The Killing (1956)
- Diana Dors in The Unholy Wife (1957)
- Jeanne Moreau in Elevator to the Gallows (1958) and The Bride Wore Black (1968)
- Mamie Van Doren in High School Confidential (1958)
- Brigitte Bardot in The Truth (1960)
- Juliette Gréco in Crack in the Mirror (1960)
- Kathleen Turner in Body Heat (1981) and Prizzi's Honor (1985)
- Nicole Kidman in Malice (1993), To Die For (1995) and The Paperboy (2012)
- Lena Olin in Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
- Alicia Silverstone in The Crush (1993)
- Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction (1994)
- Connie Nielsen in The Ice Harvest (2005)
References
See also
- Femme fatale
- Film noir
- Girls with guns
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