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"I would argue that the Bette Davis character is NOT a \"femme fatale\", a trope that is not nearly as prevalent in noir as many seem to believe.\n \n\n\n\tLeslie Crosbie is unfaithful to her husband, yes. And she does kill her lover, yes. But those two acts alone do not necessarily render her a \"femme fatale\".\n \n\n\n\tThe classic noir \"femme fatale\" is a woman who deliberately leads a man to disaster, who holds a man in thrall to her sexually, and who cares only for herself and her own gain, and uses the man to obtain this gain  (money, status, power...)\n \n\n\n\tLeslie Crosbie does not do any of those things. Just because a married woman has a lover does not make her a femme fatale. And she killed her lover in a fit of jealous passion, not for any calculated reason. She does not fit the noir definition of \"femme fatale\" at all.\n "
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