History Film / TheBlueGardenia

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* ChekhovsGunman: That lady seen in an early scene demanding that Harry call her isn't just establishing he's a cad.[[spoiler:She's the murderer.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: That lady seen in an early scene demanding that Harry call her isn't just establishing he's a cad. She's the murderer.

Norah (Creator/AnneBaxter), a young woman working as a telephone operator, gets a breakup letter from her soldier boyfriend and goes out for a night on the town. After a number of strong drinks, she goes home with a womanizing lech, Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr), and wakes up in his apartment with his dead body. Guilt-ridden hijinks ensue as Casey Mayo (Richard Conte), local reporter, tries to track down the woman responsible for this sensational crime.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It's heavily implied at the end that the woman who killed Harry did it because she's pregnant and he won't marry her.
--> "I can't go through this alone, Harry!"

Norah (Anne Baxter), a young woman working as a telephone operator, gets a breakup letter from her soldier boyfriend and goes out for a night on the town. After a number of strong drinks, she goes home with a womanizing lech, Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr), and wakes up in his apartment with his dead body. Guilt-ridden hijinks ensue as Casey Mayo (Richard Conte), local reporter, tries to track down the woman responsible for this sensational crime.

* IHaveThisFriend

* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Well, sure, Prebble's murder would be news. But Casey Mayo's "Letter To An Unknown Murderess" column headline probably doesn't deserve to take up ''the entire front page of the newspaper''.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: PlayedForDrama with Norah being too blackout drunk to know for sure whether she killed Harry Prebble.

Norah (Anne Baxter), a young woman working as a telephone operator, gets a breakup letter from her soldier boyfriend and goes out for a night on the town. After a number of strong drinks, she goes home with a womanizing lech, Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr), and wakes up in his apartment with his dead body. Guilt-ridden hijinks ensue as Casey Mayo (Richard Conte), local reporter, tries to track down woman responsible for this sensational crime.

* SympatheticMurderer: It's really more like self-defense, so there's lots of sympathy to be had for Norah. [[spoiler:The actual killer is almost as sympathetic--Prebble claimed he would marry her, and then went back on his word.]]

* Music/NatKingCole: Sings the title theme and appears AsHimself.

Norah (Anne Baxter), a young working woman, gets a breakup letter from her soldier boyfriend and goes out for a night on the town. After a number of strong drinks, she goes home with a womanizing lech, Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr), and wakes up in his apartment with his dead body. Guilt-ridden hijinks ensue as Casey Mayo (Richard Conte), local reporter, tries to track down woman responsible for this sensational crime.

Music/NatKingCole sings the title theme and appears AsHimself.

''The Blue Gardenia'' is a 1953 FilmNoir directed by Creator/FritzLang. Norah, a young working woman played by Anne Baxter, gets a breakup letter from her soldier boyfriend and goes out for a night on the town. After a number of strong drinks, she goes home with a womanizing lech, Harry Prebble, and wakes up in his apartment with his dead body. Guilt-ridden hijinks ensue as Casey Mayo, local reporter, tries to track down woman responsible for this sensational crime.

'''The Blue Gardenia''' is a 1953 film noir directed by Creator/FritzLang. Norah, a young working woman played by Anne Baxter, gets a breakup letter from her soldier boyfriend and goes out for a night on the town. After a number of strong drinks, she goes home with a womanizing lech, Harry Prebble, and wakes up in his apartment with his dead body. Guilt-ridden hijinks ensue as Casey Mayo, local reporter, tries to track down woman responsible for this sensational crime.

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The Blue Gardenia is a 1953 film noir directed by Creator/FritzLang. Norah, a young working woman played by Anne Baxter, gets a breakup letter from her soldier boyfriend and goes out for a night on the town. After a number of strong drinks, she goes home with a womanizing lech, Harry Prebble, and wakes up in his apartment with his dead body. Guilt-ridden hijinks ensue as Casey Mayo, local reporter, tries to track down woman responsible for this sensational crime.

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The Blue Gardenia is a 1953 film noir directed by Fritz Lang. Norah, a young working woman played by Anne Baxter, gets a breakup letter from her soldier boyfriend and goes out for a night on the town. After a number of strong drinks, she goes home with a womanizing lech, Harry Prebble, and wakes up in his apartment with his dead body. Guilt-ridden hijinks ensue as Casey Mayo, local reporter, tries to track down woman responsible for this sensational crime.

* SympatheticMurderer: It's really more like self-defense, so there's lots of sympathy to be had for Norah. [[spoilers:The actual killer is almost as sympathetic--Prebble claimed he would marry her, and then went back on his word.]]