NatKingCole &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:NatKingCole @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:35:12 +0200 The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, 1953) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-blue-gardenia-1953 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, 1953)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" International Hangover Day/div div class="img" The Blue Gardenia (1953)/div div class="caption" Norah (Anne Baxter) and Harry (Raymond Burr) sharing a meal – and a drink (or two) – at the Blue Gardenia Club. DP: Nicholas Musuraca./div div class="txt" After a horrible birthday alone followed by a lovely night out, Norah wakes up with a terrible hangover and a hunch of being a murderess. "How about you slip into something more comfortable, like a few drinks and some Chinese food?" ### – Harry\ The Blue Gardenia is Lang's hard-bitten take on the gruesome Black Dahlia murder case and part of his newspaper noir trilogy together with While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, both from 1956./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #InternationalHangoverDay #FritzLang #VeraCaspary #AnneBaxter #RichardConte #AnnSothern #RaymondBurr #NatKingCole #RaoulKraushaar #DaveKahn #NicholasMusuraca #BookAdaptation #birthday #crime #drama #mystery #hangover #PearlDriver #cocktails #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, 1953)

Aug

5

International Hangover Day

The Blue Gardenia (1953)

Norah (Anne Baxter) and Harry (Raymond Burr) sharing a meal – and a drink (or two) – at the Blue Gardenia Club. DP: Nicholas Musuraca.

After a horrible birthday alone followed by a lovely night out, Norah wakes up with a terrible hangover and a hunch of being a murderess.

“How about you slip into something more comfortable, like a few drinks and some Chinese food?”

– Harry

The Blue Gardenia is Lang's hard-bitten take on the gruesome Black Dahlia murder case and part of his newspaper noir trilogy together with While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, both from 1956.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #InternationalHangoverDay #FritzLang #VeraCaspary #AnneBaxter #RichardConte #AnnSothern #RaymondBurr #NatKingCole #RaoulKraushaar #DaveKahn #NicholasMusuraca #BookAdaptation #birthday #crime #drama #mystery #hangover #PearlDriver #cocktails #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★½

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