THE BLUE GARDENIA
There was nothing lily-white about her -- the clutch-and-kill girl they called: The Blue Gardenia
A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may have committed murder.
About This Film
Deeply distraught that her GI ex-boyfriend plans to marry another woman, Norah Larkin agrees to go out on a date with lothario Harry Prebble. Norah\'s drunken night out with Prebble ends in a hazily remembered confrontation and the next day a startling discovery: Harry has been murdered, and the police have found Norah\'s personal effects at the scene. Tipped off to the breaking news, reporter Casey Mayo invites Norah to tell her side of the story.
Film Details
Director
Fritz Lang
Writers
Charles Hoffman, Vera Caspary
Keywords
Murder
Blood
Cigarette Smoking
Flashback
Police Officer
Jealousy
Hospital
Police Detective
Drunkenness
Title Spoken By Character
Betrayal
F Rated
Photographer
Double Cross
Gas Station
Restaurant
Maid
Sexual Assault
Singer
False Accusation
Newspaper
Los Angeles, California
Champagne
Phone Booth
Blindness
Diner
Womanizer
Confession
Birthday
Broken Mirror
Fog
Jukebox
Divorce
Drawing
Painter
Attempted Suicide
Playboy
Roommate Roommate Relationship
Flower
Memory Lapse
Bludgeoning
Breakup
Incinerator
Fireplace Poker
Birthday Present
Unwed Pregnancy
Convertible Car
Chinese Restaurant
Hamburger
Blind Date
Flash Camera
Title Sung By Character
Portrait Drawing
Cleaning Lady
Dear John Letter
Candlelight Dinner
Record Store
Phonograph Record
Exoneration
Tracing A Telephone Call
Gardenia
Cocktail
Flower In Title
Detective Novel
Sketch Artist
Little Black Book
Fingerprinting
Destroyed Evidence
Switchboard Operator
Dear Jane Letter
Table Side Juke Box
Lace Handkerchief
Broken Engagement
Columnist
Double Exposure Effect
Hawaiian Restaurant
Flower Lady
Also Known As
Gardenia - Eine Frau will vergessen