Watch In a Lonely Place (1950), starring Humphrey Bogart!

Once a successful screenwriter, Dixon Steele has hit a rut. When he’s tasked with turning a trashy bestseller into a hit film, he seeks out hatcheck woman, Mildred Atkinson, to recount the story for him. The next day, Steele is informed that Mildred was found dead. Steele is immediately pinned as the prime suspect and the police's suspicions of Steele complicate matters when he falls for his beautiful, albeit equally enigmatic, neighbor Laurel Gray.