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2 | ''The Blue Gardenia'' is a 1953 FilmNoir directed by Creator/FritzLang. |
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4 | 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 (Creator/RaymondBurr), 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. |
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7 | !!The film contains examples of: |
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9 | * AmicablyDivorced: Norah's roommate Crystal is dating her ex-husband Homer. Crystal says Homer is a way better boyfriend than he was a husband. |
10 | * AsHimself: Music/NatKingCole appears in a club singing "The Blue Gardenia". |
11 | * AssholeVictim: Prebble gets Norah drunk, then takes her back to his apartment and basically tries to rape her. He's hard to feel bad for. |
12 | * 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.]] |
13 | * DearJohnLetter: Norah's tailspin starts when she gets a letter from her fiance fighting in Korea, stating that he's fallen in love with an Army nurse. |
14 | * EurekaMoment: Mayo has one while sitting in the airport [[spoiler:after Norah's arrest, when he hears the song that was playing when the police found the body, which was not the one Norah said she killed him to.]] |
15 | * FalseConfession: Mayo gets heaps of phone calls from women claiming to be the Blue Gardenia, but none of them have the right information about the case. |
16 | %% * Getting Crap Past The 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. |
17 | * IHaveThisFriend: Norah is incredibly obvious about this when she meets with Casey. |
18 | * NecroCam: Harry's murder is shown at the end in typical dramatic flashback style. |
19 | * SympatheticMurderer: It's really more like self-defense, so there's lots of sympathy to be had for Norah. The actual killer is almost as sympathetic--Prebble claimed he would marry her, and then went back on his word. |
20 | * ThereAreNoPolice: Actually, there are police, but Casey Mayo gets more done with the power of reporting. |
21 | * TitleThemeTune: Sung by Music/NatKingCole, who also appears in the film AsHimself. |
22 | * WhatDidIDoLastNight: PlayedForDrama with Norah being too blackout drunk to know for sure whether she killed Harry Prebble. |
23 | * WorstNewsJudgmentEver: |
24 | ** 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''. |
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