II - Fallen Woman
We're going all the way back to Greek myth to suss out the origins of the femme fatale and her earliest incarnations on the silver screen.
The Greek gods created a woman - Pandora. She was beautiful and charming and versed in the art of flattery. But the gods also gave her a box containing all the evils of the world. The heedless woman opened the box, and all evil was loosed upon us.