This movie is so special that a fan of Fritz Lang should watch it more than once.
Anne Baxter is so beautiful. and there's Nat 'King' Cole in it so that's another bonus.

So underrated, probably one of Lang's best noir.

There's just something I like about Anne Baxter, and she's so good at light comedy that I can't believe her career didn't necessarily skew that way. Her presence in The Blue Gardenia (and that of her quite fun roommates, Ann Sothern especially) makes it a fairly pale Noir, but one that feels shocking when Baxter is put under sexual threat. The story: After getting bad news, Baxter gets drunk with the wrong person and wakes up without a complete memory of her date... with a murdered man. Well, you know how these things go. The truth is probably more complicated then it seems, yadda yadda, and that's the case here too. I don't really like the abrupt save at the end (even if the movie played fair with the clues), nor the sudden romance between Baxter and the newspaper man who wants an exposé from her (that's a little too Hollywood), but Baxter is so good, whether doing comedy, romance, sadness, or paranoia, that I can't stay mad at the resolution for more than a second. Bonus cast: Raymond Burr, "Superman" George Reeves, and Ed Wood star Dolores Fuller as an uncredited extra!