Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck: Evil  Lady
Double indemnity 1944.  Paramount
Director:
Billy Wilder
Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck  (Phyllis Dietrichson)
        
Fred MacMurray, Edward G.Robinson,
         Porter Hall,  Jean Heather, Tom Powers

Screenplay:
Billy Wilder & Raymond Chandler from a James M. Cain short story in his book " Three of a kind"
Costumes:
Edith Head

Barbara Stanwyck
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck,
Edward G. Robinson
                               
Fred MacMurray,Barbara Stanwyck
Fred MacMurray,Barbara Stanwyck (above & left)
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson
Fred MacMurray,Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck , Fred MacMurray
Porter Hall, Barbara Stanwyck
Over the past fifteen years Stanwyck's gallery of film Characterizations had included all sort of women from murderers and sharpshooters to burlesque queens and senoritas, but more often than not she had played ordinary-but-troubled women.  Yet, more than any role, she was still identified with the self-sacrificing mother in "Stella Dallas"  Double indemnity changed all that.
Phyllis was a tough, sexy, calculating, and ruthless broad and.... she was a cold blooded murderer.
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