The Other Woman is a 1954 American film noir written, directed and produced by Hugo Haas.

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

Darman decides to confront Sherry directly, but tempers flare and he strangles her to death.

A police inspector suspects the truth and Darman's guilty conscience eventually forces him to confess.

"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.