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If it doesn't have to be a Golden Era film, then Michael Douglas has played more than one character who has gotten involved with the wrong woman when he had something better already. In Fatal Attraction he gets involved with Glenn Close (really????) when he's married to Anne Archer, whose character if I recall aright is quite pleasant. You can't say he was escaping a bitter, nasty wife.
Then in Basic Instinct he's involved with the brunette police psychologist who loves him, played by the gorgeous Jeanne Tripplehorn . . . and he has to get himself tangled up with the arrogant and dangerous Sharon Stone. Puh-leeze.
Great examples. "Fatal Attraction" probably kept some meaningful percentage of the male population from cheating, ever. I was single at the time it came out and didn't even want to date for awhile.