It's been a few years, but my memory of PS was an entire movie centring around harping on Kate about how awful she was until she caved and took her abusive husband back. Maybe it was meta.

As far as I can tell, it's like "hot woman in noir film" which isn't super useful?

I've probably seen him in a movie, but he's got a great voice for radio. Someone told me that Gunsmoke (the radio serial) was meant to be Philip Marlow in a western, and now I can't unhear that.