The Woman with the gardénia

the woman with the gardénia (The blue gardenia) is an American film carried out by Fritz Lang, left in 1953 with the cinema.

Synopsis

Norah Larkin is a pretty operator of telephone which awaits the return of John impatiently, a soldier engaged in overseas with whom it must marry. The evening of its birthday, it receives a letter of John teaching him that he will not be able to marry it. In tears, she answers a phone call of Harry Prebble, a colleague, who confuses it with his sister and invites it to dine. Depressed, Norah accepts the appointment in Blue Gardenia. Harry, which loves the pretty women, is not let dismount by its error and dines with Norah. It drunk the young woman before taking it along to her apartment where he tries to misuse it. Norah resists and strikes it with a poker before fleeing, leaving behind it its shoes and a blue gardenia that Harry had offered to him. The next morning, Norah is unable to remember what occurred.

Data sheet

French Title: the woman with the gardénia
original Title: The blue gardenia
Realization: Fritz Lang
Country of origin: the United States
Format: black and white
Kind: black film
Lasted: 90 minutes
Coming out date: March 23rd 1953

Distribution

Anne Baxter: Norah Larkin
Richard Tells: Casey Mayo
Year Sothern: Hook Carpenter
Raymond Burr: Harry Prebble
Jeff Donnell : Sally Elect
Richard Erdman: Al
George Reeves: captain Sam Haynes
Ruth Storey: Rose Miller
Ray Walker: Homer
Nat "King" Stick: itself

External bond

Card illustrated on Gloubik

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