"Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances."
Anne Baxter
as Norah Larkin
Richard Conte
as Casey Mayo
Ann Sothern
as Crystal Carpenter
Raymond Burr
as Harry Prebble
Jeff Donnell
as Sally Ellis
Richard Erdman
as Al
George Reeves
as Sam Haynes
Ruth Storey
as Rose Miller
Ray Walker
as Homer
Nat King Cole
as Nat King Cole
Fay Baker
as Switchboard Monitor (uncredited)
Robert Bice
as Policeman (uncredited)
Larry J. Blake
as Music Shop Clerk (uncredited)
Lela Bliss
as Miss Stanley (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
as Policewoman (uncredited)
Edward Clark
as News Stand Dealer (uncredited)
Papa John Creach
as Man Playing Violin (uncredited)
Mike Donovan
as Fingerprint Officer (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
as Drunk Reporter (uncredited)
Sam Finn
as Photographer (uncredited)
Elizabeth Flournoy
as Assistant Switchboard Monitor (uncredited)
Dolores Fuller
as Woman At Bar (uncredited)
Alex Gottlieb
as Man (uncredited)
William Haade
as Patrolman Hopper (uncredited)
Sam Harris
as Nightclub Patron at Blue Gardenia (uncredited)
Victoria Horne
as Disturbed Woman w/Big Feet (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Jess Kirkpatrick
as Detective (uncredited)
Frank Kreig
as Drunken Reporter (uncredited)
Norman Leavitt
as Bill (uncredited)
Tommy Lee
as Waiter (uncredited)
Celia Lovsky
as Mary (uncredited)
Peggy McKim
as Sneezing Girl (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
as Passerby (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
as Information Desk Guard (uncredited)
William Phipps
as Lt. George Foster (voice / uncredited)
Joey Ray
as Prebble's Assistant (uncredited)
Hugh Sanders
as 'Chronicle' Managing Editor (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
as Police Recorder (uncredited)
Almira Sessions
as Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
Robert Shayne
as Doctor (uncredited)
Carl Sklover
Marjorie Stapp
Amzie Strickland
as Woman at Bar (uncredited)
Sailor Vincent
as Drunken Sailor (uncredited)
Victor Sen Yung
as Blue Gardenia Waiter (uncredited)
Producer
Edward Mann
Editor
Fritz Lang
Director
Charles Hoffman
Screenplay
Nicholas Musuraca
Director of Photography
Raoul Kraushaar
Original Music Composer
Maria P. Donovan
Costume Designer
Vera Caspary
Story
Nelson Riddle
Music Arranger
Don McDougall
Script Supervisor
Daniel Hall
Art Direction
Ben Winkler
Sound
Emmett Emerson
Assistant Director
Willis Cook
Special Effects
Maurie M. Suess
Production Supervisor
Izzy Berne
Gene Hibbs
Makeup Artist
James R. Barker
Dave Kahn
Music