THE GREAT THREAT

n Billy Wilder’s classic noir, (1944), a woman in a bad marriage (Barbara Stanwyck) has an affair with an insurance agent (Fred MacMurray) whose help she needs to murder her husband. In order to acquire her independence, she decides to have an affair, but only as part of a cold-blooded conspiracy to access money from her husband’s insurance. Here is a woman who plots her escape through an elaborate game of seduction and betrayal. With , the fashionably-adorned Stanwyck emerged as one of the most iconic