Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Ladies of mercenary virtue are often associated with the color crimson, perhaps in tribute to the rusty-haired heroine of Red-Headed Woman (1932). Lowborn but scrappy and sexy, an entry-level laborer has eyes for her staid, established boss, and he can't stop staring at her either. Bright and ruthless, the rising redhead soon has her social superior yearning to lie beside her, so stricken that he divorces his wife and marries the copper-top scamp. The sucker deserves what he gets, and what he gets is deep and lusty laughter from an audience that not only anticipates each further indiscreet infidelity from The Red-Headed Woman but exults along with her in their commission.