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.
- Sexual violence
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Classical in form, grave, spare and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Anne BaxterNorah Larkin
- Richard ConteCasey Mayo
- Ann SothernCrystal Carpenter
- Raymond BurrHarry Prebble
- Jeff DonnellSally Ellis
- Richard ErdmanAl
- George ReevesSam Haynes
- Ruth StoreyRose Miller
- Ray WalkerHomer
- Nat King ColeNat King Cole
Crew
- Fritz LangDirector
- Charles HoffmanScreenplay
- Nicholas MusuracaDirector of Photography
- Raoul KraushaarOriginal Music Composer
- Edward MannEditor
- Alex GottliebProducer
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