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The Blue Gardenia (Original title)
Date: 1953 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Directed by: Fritz Lang

Production company billing: ©1953 Blue Gardenia Productions, Inc.; 26 March 1953; LP14427 Warner Bros. Pictures presents
Synopsis: Story of a telephone operator who believes she has committed a murder during an evening when she was drowning her sorrows over a broken romance.

Genre:
Drama
Credits (24)
©: Blue Gardenia Productions, Production Company: Alex Gottlieb Productions, Produced by: Alex Gottlieb, Production Supervisor: Maurie Suess, Assistant Director: Emmett Emerson, Script Supervisor: Don Mcdougall, Screenplay by: Charles Hoffman, Story by: Vera Caspary, Director of Photography: Nicholas Musuraca, Special Effects: Willis Cook, Film Editor: Edward Mann, Art Director: Daniel Hall, Ladies' Wardrobe: Maria Donovan, Men's Wardrobe: Izzy Berne, Make-up: Gene Hibbs, Make-up: James Barker, Music Score: Raoul Kraushaar, Song 'Blue Gardenia' by: Bob Russell, Lester Lee, Sung by: Nat King Cole, [Liebestod from `Tristan and Isolde']: Richard Wagner, `Blue Gardenia' arranged by: Nelson Riddle, Sound: Ben Winkler
Cast (16)
Anne Baxter (Norah Larkin), Richard Conte (Casey Mayo), Ann Sothern (Crystal Carpenter), Raymond Burr (Harry Prebble), Jeff Donnell (Sally Ellis), Richard Erdman ('Sleepy' Al), George Reeves (Police Captain Sam Haynes), Ruth Storey (Rose), Ray Walker (Homer), Nat King Cole (himself), Victor Sen Young ([waiter]), Celia Lovsky ([May, the blind woman]), Almira Sessions ([cleaning lady]), Frank Ferguson ([drunkard]), Norman Leavitt ([Bill]), Alex Gottlieb ([man])