The Strange Woman (1946) Jenny Hager (Hedy Lamarr) is as charming and beautiful as she is troubled and scheming. Her goal in life is to find a wealthy husband, and soon finds the perfect opportunity to woo her way into the arms of the richest man in town, the much older Isaiah Poster (Gene Lockhart), who she later marries. When Jenny's stepson Ephraim Poster (Louis Hayward) is visiting from college, she is quick to seduce him and later convinces him to murder his father, her husband.