The Blue Gardenia

Mar 20, 1953

1h 29m

★ 6.6

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.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Blue Gardenia Productions

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Norah Larkin

Anne Baxter

Casey Mayo

Richard Conte

Crystal Carpenter

Ann Sothern

Harry Prebble

Raymond Burr

Sally Ellis

Jeff Donnell

Richard Erdman

Sam Haynes

George Reeves

Rose Miller

Ruth Storey

Homer

Ray Walker

Nat King Cole

Switchboard Monitor (uncredited)

Fay Baker

Policeman (uncredited)

Robert Bice

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6.0

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6.0

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6.2

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7.2

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7.1

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7.6

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5.2

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8.2

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6.4

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7.3

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8.1

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7.9

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7.6

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7.6

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7.7

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7.9

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