which is of course when she would have been entering middle age, Hollywood was crap about older women even then.

That's sort of my problem with Falcon -- she was was old enough by then that at the beginning, when Brigid O'Shaughnessy is pretending to be a sheltered socialite, she reminds me of a slightly younger Margaret Dumont; which could have been amazing if they'd run with it, but the script keeps insisting she's a stereotypical femme fatale driving everyone stupid with her raw sex appeal.