Jane Randolph, a B-movie actress in the 1940s who was best known for her role in the film noir “Cat People,” died May 4 in Gstaad, Switzerland, after surgery on a broken hip, her daughter said. She was 93.

Under contract to RKO Pictures in 1942, Randolph played Alice Moore, a young woman terrorized during a nocturnal swim in “Cat People,” the first of producer Val Lewton’s horror films. The scene of her becoming “trapped in an indoor swimming pool by an ominous feline creature whose eerie presence was suggested rather than revealed on screen” is “one of cinema’s indelibly suspenseful scenes,” said film wirter Alan K. Rode.

Randolph reprised the character two years later in the 1944 sequel “The Curse of the Cat People.”

She played “vulnerable victims and conniving fatales with equal panache in a clutch of noir and fantasy ‘B’ pictures,” Rode said.

Between 1941 and 1948, Randolph made 20 films, playing a woman accused of killing her alcoholic husband in “Jealousy” (1945) and a bookie who frames an innocent man for murder in “Railroaded!” (1947).