• The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 American crime film and film noir with an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler directed by George Marshall and starring Alan...
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    species of dahlia, with flowers in almost every hue (except blue), with hybrids commonly grown as garden plants. Dahlias were known to the Aztecs until...
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    originated from a film noir murder mystery, The Blue Dahlia (1946). After the discovery of her body, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) began an...
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  • The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. (The) Blue Dahlia may also refer to: The Blue Dahlia (ballet), a ballet first...
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    Veronica Lake (category Deaths from kidney failure in the United States)
    Miss Susie Slagle's, producer John Houseman cast Lake in the film noir The Blue Dahlia (1946). The film reunited her with Alan Ladd, who had become one of...
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    Lake in films noir, such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942), and The Blue Dahlia (1946). Whispering Smith (1948) was his first Western...
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  • The Blue Dahlia (French: Le Dahlia bleu) is a ballet in two acts, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni, first presented...
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    1940s styled vocal/jazz combo named The Blue Dahlia (1999–2000). Maroulis remains active both behind and in front of the scenes, runs Sepiatone Records, a...
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    John Houseman (category Romanian emigrants to the United Kingdom)
    their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane and his collaboration, as producer of The Blue Dahlia, with writer...
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  • up dahlia or Dahlia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dahlia is a genus of plants. Dahlia may also refer to: Dahlia (moth), a genus of moths Dahlia anemone...
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    escort who takes a shine to Ray Milland in the 1945 film The Lost Weekend. She next appeared in The Blue Dahlia, which starred Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake...
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    actor William Bendix; they had prominent roles in the 1946 film noir The Blue Dahlia, playing the friends of star Alan Ladd's character. In 1946–1947...
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    The Black Dahlia Murder is an American melodic death metal band from Waterford, Michigan, formed in 2001. Their name is derived from the 1947 unsolved...
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    early feature films were of the noir genre in which he often played villains, such as Eddie Harwood in The Blue Dahlia and the sadistic Captain Francis Thompson...
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    George Marshall (director) (category Presidents of the Directors Guild of America)
    (1940), The Blue Dahlia (1946), The Sheepman (1958), and How the West Was Won (1962) being the biggest exceptions. John Houseman called him "one of the old...
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    for his script for The Blue Dahlia, Montgomery wanted Chandler to write the screenplay for Lady in the Lake. This resulted in the 195-page screenplay...
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  • (1970), and Ring Around the Bathtub (1971). Stone made his motion-picture debut in the Alan Ladd film noir classic The Blue Dahlia (1946). He then went on...
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    Raymond Chandler (category Civil servants in the Admiralty)
    Chandler's only produced original screenplay was The Blue Dahlia (1946). He had not written a denouement for the script and, according to producer John Houseman...
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    appeared in the stage version, but in the role of Officer Krupp (a role played on film by Broderick Crawford). He was cast in The Blue Dahlia (1946), appearing...
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    from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. See also the Academy...
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  • Comedy Tour: The Movie (2003) Blue Crush (2002) The Blue Dahlia (1946) Blue Desert (1991) The Blue Eagle (1930) Blue in the Face (1995) The Blue Gardenia...
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  • Ahmad Jamal on "The Legendary Okeh and Epic Recordings" 1946: The Blue Dahlia, sung in part by an uncredited actress at the Blue Dahlia "A Bing Crosby...
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    Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia (1946), and Strangers on a Train (1951). Where Chandler, like Hammett, centered most of his novels and stories on the character...
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    at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination. The plot is an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story The Nutcracker and the Mouse...
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    and Have Not (prominently featured as the fisherman who tries to cheat Bogie), in Along Came Jones, The Blue Dahlia, Dark City and Bad Day at Black Rock...
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    notes: This was the second of four films teaming Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, the others being: This Gun for Hire (1942); The Blue Dahlia (1946); and Saigon...
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    Own (1946) as Babe Two Years Before the Mast (1946) as Hansen The Blue Dahlia (1946) as Man Recommending a Motel The Well-Groomed Bride (1946) as Taxi Driver...
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    Glamour Manor and the title character, Ephraim Tutt in The Amazing Mr. Tutt. He also guest starred on radio shows, such as The Man Called X, The Charlotte Greenwood...
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  • of the '50s". Cinematographer Roger Deakins drew inspiration for his work from the 1940s and 1950s films such as This Gun for Hire, The Blue Dahlia, Kiss...
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    the second act. Swan Lake was heard in two episodes of the Playhouse Disney series Little Einsteins: "Quincy and the Magic Instruments" and "The Blue...
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