Featuring footage of Angie Dickinson taken from eleven films, TV movies, and television series, The Woman in the Yellow Dress is both a homage to Angie Dickinson and a critical commentary on the role of the woman in genre film and television in the 1960s and 1970s. At the centre of the film is an image of Angie Dickinson (wearing a yellow dress) from The Killers (1964), an image which would be repeated three years later in Point Blank (1967). This image of youth and beauty which has come to define Dickinson is the spark for a narrative that seeks to explore how a woman’s youth and beauty is (ab)used in Hollywood cinema.