The Other Woman is a 1954 American film noir written, directed and produced by Hugo Haas. Haas, Cleo Moore and John Qualen starred in the film.^[1]

After aspiring actress Sherry Stewart auditions for director Walter Darman but doesn't get the part, she decides to blackmail him.

Sherry and her boyfriend Ronnie cook up a scheme, drugging Darman's drink, lying to him later that he and Sherry had become intimate, then threatening to tell his wife unless Darman comes up with $50,000.

Darman decides to confront Sherry directly, but tempers flare and he strangles her to death. His wife Lucille chooses an inopportune time to confront the actress herself, finding the body. A police inspector suspects the truth and Darman's guilty conscience eventually forces him to confess.

• Hugo Haas as Walter Darman
• Cleo Moore as Sherry Stewart
• Lance Fuller as Ronnie
• Lucille Barkley as Mrs. Lucille Darman
• Jack Macy as Charles Lester
• John Qualen as Papasha
• Jan Arvan as Police Inspector Collins
• Karolee Kelly as Marion

Film critic Dennis Schwartz dismissed the film as "...a dull film noir, suffering from an unconvincing plot, and dry acting."^[2] Cinema scholar Milan Hain is much more sympathetic to the film. "The Other Woman is Haas' most ambitious film, with many themes and motifs mirroring his own career: life in exile characterized by disillusionment and entrapment, loss of one's identity and social status, hopeless struggle with the Hollywood machinery, and the impossibility of fully realizing one's artistic visions."^[3]

• The Other Woman at IMDb
• The Other Woman at the TCM Movie Database
• The Other Woman informational site and essay by Mark Fertig
• The Other Woman film scene on YouTube