The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia (1953)

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

  • Genre: Crime, Mystery
  • Release Date: 1953-03-20
  • User Rating: 6.489/10 from 87 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 29min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Blue Gardenia Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Fritz Lang
star 6.489/10
From 87 Ratings

Summary

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.

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  • Anne Baxter

    as Norah Larkin
  • Richard Conte

    as Casey Mayo
  • Ann Sothern

    as Crystal Carpenter
  • Raymond Burr

    as Harry Prebble
  • Jeff Donnell

    as Sally Ellis
  • Richard Erdman

    as Al
  • George Reeves

    as Sam Haynes
  • Ruth Storey

    as Rose Miller
  • Ray Walker

    as Homer
  • Nat King Cole

    as Nat King Cole
  • Fay Baker

    as Switchboard Monitor (uncredited)
  • Robert Bice

    as Policeman (uncredited)
  • Larry J. Blake

    as Music Shop Clerk (uncredited)
  • Lela Bliss

    as Miss Stanley (uncredited)
  • Gail Bonney

    as Policewoman (uncredited)
  • Edward Clark

    as News Stand Dealer (uncredited)
  • Papa John Creach

    as Man Playing Violin (uncredited)
  • Mike Donovan

    as Fingerprint Officer (uncredited)
  • Frank Ferguson

    as Drunk Reporter (uncredited)
  • Sam Finn

    as Photographer (uncredited)
  • Elizabeth Flournoy

    as Assistant Switchboard Monitor (uncredited)
  • Dolores Fuller

    as Woman At Bar (uncredited)
  • Alex Gottlieb

    as Man (uncredited)
  • William Haade

    as Patrolman Hopper (uncredited)
  • Sam Harris

    as Nightclub Patron at Blue Gardenia (uncredited)
  • Victoria Horne

    as Disturbed Woman w/Big Feet (uncredited)
  • Kenner G. Kemp

    as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
  • Jess Kirkpatrick

    as Detective (uncredited)
  • Frank Kreig

    as Drunken Reporter (uncredited)
  • Norman Leavitt

    as Bill (uncredited)
  • Tommy Lee

    as Waiter (uncredited)
  • Celia Lovsky

    as Mary (uncredited)
  • Peggy McKim

    as Sneezing Girl (uncredited)
  • Frank O'Connor

    as Passerby (uncredited)
  • Lee Phelps

    as Information Desk Guard (uncredited)
  • William Phipps

    as Lt. George Foster (voice / uncredited)
  • Joey Ray

    as Prebble's Assistant (uncredited)
  • Hugh Sanders

    as 'Chronicle' Managing Editor (uncredited)
  • Jeffrey Sayre

    as Police Recorder (uncredited)
  • Almira Sessions

    as Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
  • Robert Shayne

    as Doctor (uncredited)
  • Carl Sklover

    as Photographer (uncredited)
  • Marjorie Stapp

    as Policewoman (uncredited)
  • Amzie Strickland

    as Woman at Bar (uncredited)
  • Sailor Vincent

    as Drunken Sailor (uncredited)
  • Victor Sen Yung

    as Blue Gardenia Waiter (uncredited)
Production Alex Gottlieb Producer
Editing Edward Mann Editor
Directing Fritz Lang Director
Writing Charles Hoffman Screenplay
Camera Nicholas Musuraca Director of Photography
Sound Raoul Kraushaar Original Music Composer
Costume & Make-Up Maria P. Donovan Costume Designer
Writing Vera Caspary Story
Sound Nelson Riddle Music Arranger
Directing Don McDougall Script Supervisor
Art Daniel Hall Art Direction
Sound Ben Winkler Sound
Directing Emmett Emerson Assistant Director
Crew Willis Cook Special Effects
Production Maurie M. Suess Production Supervisor
Costume & Make-Up Izzy Berne Costume Designer
Costume & Make-Up Gene Hibbs Makeup Artist
Costume & Make-Up James R. Barker Makeup Artist
Sound Dave Kahn Music

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