The Guilt of Janet Ames is a 1947 American sentimental film noir directed by Henry Levin, based on a story by Lenore Coffee, and starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas.

The police find no identification on her, only a list of masculine names, including that of Smitty Cobb, a hard-drinking newspaperman.

Janet's next vision takes her to the desert, where the second veteran on the list, Ed Pierson, is doing scientific research and living in a shack with his wife Susie.

These three encounters remind Janet that David, her husband, had actually wanted to build a house and have a child right away, but she had dismissed both notions as too expensive and troublesome.

Later, Smitty, who was her dead husband's commanding officer, reveals his own guilt in having ordered David to fall on the grenade.