Beautiful Jean Gillie with Robert Armstrong in a scene from Decoy (1946). Dying Margot Shelby recounts a fantastic tale to detective Joe Portugal (Sheldon Leonard) involving lust, greed, betrayal and a little bit of science.

This was one of only two films that the English actress made in the United States. She was to die in London in 1949 at the age of just 33 from pneumonia, curtailing a very promising resurrection of her British acting career.

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