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The Women of Los Angeles Film (and TV) Noir


If Looks Could Kill
If movies and television shows are to be believed, you were guaranteed two things in Los Angeles during the 1940s and 50s: brutal crimes and beautiful women. Not a bad combo for your average hardboiled detective — or for viewers at home. In honor of TNT's new take on noir crime in the City of Angels, let's take a look at Mob City's Jasmine Fontaine and the rest of her femme fatale pals.


Scarlett Johansson as Kay Lake
Kay was an equal opportunist when it came to dating men. She didn't seem to care which side of the law they fell on — a fact that helped entangle her in the dark and murderous mysteries of Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia.
 
 

Scarlett Johansson as Kay Lake
Kay was an equal opportunist when it came to dating men. She didn't seem to care which side of the law they fell on — a fact that helped entangle her in the dark and murderous mysteries of Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia.