🎥 Interesting fact: Phantom Lady (1944) — Universal Pictures used Ella Raines in Phantom Lady as a major push to create a new style of film noir heroine. Instead of the typical femme fatale, she plays a determined everyday woman who drives the entire investigation herself. Her long nighttime search scenes were filmed on real city streets with hidden cameras so that the reactions of people around her were completely natural. This gave the movie a gritty and realistic atmosphere that was unusual