The Blue Gardenia

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film noir, showing Richard Conte and Anne Baxter flanking Nat King Cole at the piano. Provenance stamp on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript pencil.

Based on Vera Caspary's 1952 novella. A telephone operator wakes up with a hangover and a creeping feeling that she might have murdered her date the previous night. The first installment in director Fritz Lang's "newspaper noir" trilogy, followed by "While the City Sleeps" (1956) and "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" (1956).

10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear at the two left corners, and pinholes at three edges.

Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.

[Book #162382]