Movie
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1953-03-20
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Blue Gardenia Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- 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)
Crew
- Fritz Lang - Director
- Charles Hoffman - Screenplay
- Vera Caspary - Story
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