The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia is a 1953 American blackandwhite film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on a story by Vera Caspary. It stars Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern and Raymond Burr.

Film director and writer Peter Bogdanovich called the film a particularly venomous picture of American life. The director of cinematography was one of RKO Radio Pictures regulars Nicholas Musuraca, then working at Warner Brothers.In Los Angeles, California, Norah Larkin Anne Baxter is a single woman who works as a switchboard operator along with her roommates, Crystal Carpenter Ann Sothern and Sally Ellis Jeff Donnell. On her birthday, she decides to celebrate by dining alone at home, with the picture of her fianc, a soldier serving in the Korean War. At the candlelight dinner table, she opens the latest letter from him and learns to her shock that he instead plans to marry a nurse he met in Tokyo. ........

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