“Stanwyck's characterization in Double Indemnity ‘had its genesis eleven years earlier in Baby Face, a film that caused a Hays Office censorship stir. In its review, Variety dubbed the movie “blue and nothing else,” reporting, “This is reputed to be a remake of the first print, which was considered too hot.”' Stanwyck's Lily, relates film historian Jerry Vermilye, ‘starts her rapid rise in the offices of a bank. There, a cunning use of its male employees and executives (the movie's soundtrack moans with “St. Louis Blues”) soon installs her in the extramarital quarters of bank president Carter (Henry Kolker) while she continues a relationship with an executive, Stevens (Cook), who, in turn, is engaged to Carter's daughter (Lindsay). All of which proves too much for Stevens, who shoots both Carter and himself, as the tabloids scream “DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN LOVE NEST!”' And this is only the first half of the film.” American Film Institute