The Blue Gardenia.

Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) is a single woman who works as a switchboard operator along with her roommates, Crystal Carpenter (Ann Sothern) and Sally Ellis (Jeff Donnell) On her birthday, she decides to celebrate by dining alone at home, with the picture of her fiancé, a soldier serving in the Korean War. Norah accepts a date over the telephone with womanizing calendar girl artist Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr) She awakens and resists, and apparently strikes him with a fire poker, causing a shattered mirror. She flees the scene, leaving behind her black sued