Film noir the most influential of the early noirs. A slew of now-renowned noir "bad girls" followed, such as those played by Rita Hayworth in "Gilda" (1946), Lana Turner in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946), Ava Gardner in "The Killers" (1946), and Jane Greer in "Out of the Past" (1947). The iconic noir counterpart to the femme fatale, the private eye, came to the fore in films such as "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, and "Murder, My Sweet" (1944), with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe. The prevalence of the private eye as a lead character declined
Cora Smith Eaton Cora Smith Eaton Cora Smith Eaton (1867 – 1939) was an American suffragist, physician and mountaineer. Cora Smith was born in 1867 and attended the National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia, where she took up the cause of women's suffrage. She attended the University of North Dakota from 1884 to 1889, during which time she taught arithmetic, geography, spelling and handwriting at the university. She was also the first woman to teach physical education at UND. She graduated in 1889 with a Bachelor of Science as a member of UND's first class. She subsequently studied at the Boston