The evil and nameless Adulterous Wife
The unnamed Adulterous Wife (Patricia Medina; 1919-2012) was the main villainess from "See the Monkey Dance," episode 3.05 of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (airdate November 9, 1964).
The brunette is introduced as a married woman who was having an affair with main protagonist George, as she was shown contacting him via telephone. The episode's progression sees George encounter a limping man on a train, and after he held George at gunpoint, George figured that the man was his lover's husband, and he was planning to kill George out or revenge. After forcing George to dig his own grave, the man showed George a love letter that he supposedly wrote to his lover, only for George to deny ever writing the letter.
After George showed his handwriting to the man, they both realized that their love interest was a scheming villainess who set up their meeting, knowing that the man was planning on killing George. The villainess actually wrote the letter herself, and had done the same regarding a previous affair, as she was planning on her husband killing her last lover. The evil adulteress later resurfaced in the episode's climax, which actually saw the man being revealed as the previous lover and the survivor of the villainess' past scheme.
The sinister adulteress scoffed at her ex-lover's affections for her, even telling him that she would have her husband injure his other leg, officially establishing her heel persona in the process. All the whille, both men were planning to kill the adulteress, with George tampering with the steering in his former lover's car, resulting in the villainess driving off and being killed in a crash.
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- Patricia Medina also played villainesses Nadja and Victorine Lafourcade on Thriller, and played the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Three Stooges.