The Blue Gardenia (1953)

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

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.

• Released: 1953-03-20
• Genres: Crime, Mystery
• Runtime: 1h 29m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 6.5/10 from 104 votes

Directed by Fritz Lang.

Top cast

• Anne Baxter as Norah Larkin
• Richard Conte as Casey Mayo
• Ann Sothern as Crystal Carpenter
• Raymond Burr as Harry Prebble
• Jeff Donnell as Sally Ellis
• Richard Erdman as Al
• George Reeves as Sam Haynes
• Ruth Storey as Rose Miller
• Ray Walker as Homer
• Nat King Cole as Nat King Cole

Full cast & crew

Where to watch The Blue Gardenia

• United States: stream on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Night Flight Plus, Cultpix, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Troma NOW; watch free on Kanopy, FlixHouse, Fawesome, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Tubi TV, Amazon MX Player; rent on Amazon Video; buy on Amazon Video
• Canada: stream on Cultpix; watch free on Tubi TV
• Australia: watch free on Tubi TV

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