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Anita and Kat are joined by literature and film studies Professor Julie Grossman\u2014an oft-published scholar who\u2019s penned numerous essays about the classic archetypes of women onscreen and behind the camera in vintage Hollywood. She\u2019s taking us into the 1940s, and specifically the introduction of film noir and the femme fatale for our \u201cHollywood by the Decade\u201d series. To set the scene for our conversation, we watched two films on Julie\u2019s recommendation: from 1943, Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s SHADOW OF A DOUBT, and from 1948, ROAD HOUSE\u2014directed by Jean Nogulesco and starring Ida Lupino before the advent of her directing career.