The Blue Gardenia (1953)

  • NR
  • 03/20/1953 (US)
  • Crime, Mystery
  • 1h 29m

There was nothing lily-white about her -- the clinch-and-kill girl they called: The Blue Gardenia

Overview

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

Fritz Lang

Director

Charles Hoffman

Screenplay

Vera Caspary

Story

Cast

Anne Baxter's headshot

Anne Baxter

Norah Larkin
Richard Conte's headshot

Richard Conte

Casey Mayo
Ann Sothern's headshot

Ann Sothern

Crystal Carpenter
Raymond Burr's headshot

Raymond Burr

Harry Prebble
Jeff Donnell's headshot

Jeff Donnell

Sally Ellis
Richard Erdman's headshot

Richard Erdman

Al
George Reeves's headshot

George Reeves

Sam Haynes
Ruth Storey's headshot

Ruth Storey

Rose Miller

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