The Blue Gardenia poster
Director Fritz Lang
Screenplay Charles Hoffman

The Blue Gardenia

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

Release Date: 1953-03-20

Duration: 89 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Raymond Burr
    Harry Prebble
  • Anne Baxter
    Norah Larkin
  • Richard Erdman
    Al
  • Amzie Strickland
    Woman at Bar (uncredited)
  • Richard Conte
    Casey Mayo
  • William Phipps
    Lt. George Foster (voice / uncredited)
  • George Reeves
    Sam Haynes
  • Victor Sen Yung
    Blue Gardenia Waiter (uncredited)
  • Ruth Storey
    Rose Miller
  • Jeffrey Sayre
    Police Recorder (uncredited)