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The Blue Gardenia

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

6.5(104)19531h 29m3

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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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • film noir
  • clinch and kill

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Behind the camera

Director

Fritz Lang

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical (limited)NRWashington, D.C20 Mar 1953
    • TheatricalNR28 Mar 1953
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1620 Nov 1953

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The Blue Gardenia was released on 20 March 1953.

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    John Chard

    3/8/2016

    6.5/10

    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, ends up drunk and at t…

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