The Blue Gardenia (1953) [Film Noir]

The Blue Gardenia is a 1953 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang from a screenplay by Charles Hoffman. It is based on the novella The Gardenia by Vera Caspary.The film stars Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, and Ann Sothern. The Blue Gardenia – a cynical take on press coverage of a sensational murder case (the Black Dahlia) – was the first installment of Lang’s “newspaper noir” film trio