There was nothing lily-white about her -- the clinch-and-kill girl they called: The Blue Gardenia
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.
- 6.5
- 1953
- Released
- 1h 29m
Anne Baxter
Norah Larkin
Richard Conte
Casey Mayo
Ann Sothern
Crystal Carpenter
Raymond Burr
Harry Prebble
Jeff Donnell
Sally Ellis
Richard Erdman
Al
George Reeves
Sam Haynes
Ruth Storey
Rose Miller
Ray Walker
Homer
Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole
Fay Baker
Switchboard Monitor (uncredited)
Robert Bice
Policeman (uncredited)
Larry J. Blake
Music Shop Clerk (uncredited)
Lela Bliss
Miss Stanley (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
Policewoman (uncredited)Edward Clark
News Stand Dealer (uncredited)Papa John Creach
Man Playing Violin (uncredited)Mike Donovan
Fingerprint Officer (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
Drunk Reporter (uncredited)Sam Finn
Photographer (uncredited)Elizabeth Flournoy
Assistant Switchboard Monitor (uncredited)
Dolores Fuller
Woman At Bar (uncredited)
William Haade
Patrolman Hopper (uncredited)Sam Harris
Nightclub Patron at Blue Gardenia (uncredited)
Victoria Horne
Disturbed Woman w/Big Feet (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)Jess Kirkpatrick
Detective (uncredited)
Frank Kreig
Drunken Reporter (uncredited)
Norman Leavitt
Bill (uncredited)Tommy Lee
Waiter (uncredited)
Celia Lovsky
Mary (uncredited)Peggy McKim
Sneezing Girl (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Passerby (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Information Desk Guard (uncredited)
William Phipps
Lt. George Foster (voice / uncredited)Joey Ray
Prebble's Assistant (uncredited)
Hugh Sanders
'Chronicle' Managing Editor (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Police Recorder (uncredited)
Almira Sessions
Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
Robert Shayne
Doctor (uncredited)
Carl Sklover
Photographer (uncredited)Marjorie Stapp
Policewoman (uncredited)
Amzie Strickland
Woman at Bar (uncredited)
Sailor Vincent
Drunken Sailor (uncredited)
Victor Sen Yung
Blue Gardenia Waiter (uncredited)Released
en
- #film noir
- #clinch and kill
Reviews
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, en