The Blue Gardenia

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The Blue Gardenia (1953)

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

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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

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Anne Baxter

Norah Larkin
Richard Conte

Casey Mayo
Ann Sothern

Crystal Carpenter
Raymond Burr

Harry Prebble
Jeff Donnell

Sally Ellis
Richard Erdman

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George Reeves

Sam Haynes
Ruth Storey

Rose Miller
Ray Walker

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A review by John Chard

65%

Written by John Chard on March 8, 2016

A Letter to an Unknown Murderess.

The Blue Gardenia is directed by Fritz Lang and adapted to screenplay by Charles Hoffman from the short story "Gardenia" written by Vera Caspary. It stars Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr and George Reeves. Music is by Raoul Kraushaar and cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca.

Norah Larkin (Baxter), after receiving some horrible news, ends up drunk and at the mercy of a Lothario in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with the distinct feeling she may have committed murder.

More solid than anything spectacular, this minor... read the rest.

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