Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir, directed by George Marshall and written by Raymond Chandler.

When he spots her kissing her boyfriend Eddie Harwood ( Howard Da Silva ), the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub, he punches Eddie.

* The Blue Dahlia film clip at YouTube

* The Blue Dahlia on Screen Guild Theater: April 21, 1949

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Between 1945 and 1962 he produced 18 films for Paramount, Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including the 1946 film noir, The Blue Dahlia and the 1953 film adaptation of Julius Caesar ( for which he received an Academy Award nomination for " Best Picture ").

A notable exception was The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), in which she again co-starred with Ladd.

Raymond Chandler also wrote an original screenplay for The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ) starring Alan Ladd.

Prime examples include Ella Raines in Phantom Lady ( 1944 ), Lucille Ball in both The Dark Corner ( 1946 ) and Lured ( 1947 ), Alan Ladd in the aforementioned The Blue Dahlia, George Raft in Johnny Angel ( 1945 ), June Vincent and Dan Duryea in Black Angel ( 1946 ), Humphrey Bogart in Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ), and Dick Powell in Cry Danger ( 1951 ).

The Blue Dahlia and Her Kind of Man were among the first films to be identified as adult entertainment in Ontario.

He began acting in motion pictures in 1940, appearing in over three dozen films ( many roles not credited ; he was credited along with another future TV dad-William Bendix, who would star in The Life of Riley in the 1946 film The Blue Dahlia which starred Alan Ladd ) before taking his best-known role as the archetypal philosophy-dispensing suburban father, Ward Cleaver, on the popular sitcom television series Leave It to Beaver.

L ’ Étoile de Grenade was followed by La Rose, la violette et le papillon ( The Rose, the Violet and the Butterfly ) in 1857, Un Mariage sous la Régence ( A Marriage Under the Regency ) in 1858, Le Marché des parisien ( The Parisian Market ) in 1859, Le Dahlia Bleu ( The Blue Dahlia ) in 1860 and Terpsichore in 1861.

A diverse and fairly eclectic vocalist, Maroulis recorded a number of albums with a 1940s styled vocal / jazz combo named The Blue Dahlia ( 1999 – 2000 ).

* The Blue Dahlia: The Blue Dahlia ( 2000 )

* The Blue Dahlia: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra ( 2001 )

* The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 )

* The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 )

Blue Throat was slumped with his back against the bar, elbows supporting his massive frame.

He didn't stop till he was within three feet of Blue Throat and by that time the gang leader's right hand was on the butt of his revolver.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

It was the abrupt end of Blue Throat's dictatorship in Petrie.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

In addition, Blue Cross coverage for all employees and their dependents was extended to provide the full cost of semi-private hospital accommodations.

The effluent was collected through two pipes and discharged to the Blue River through a surface drainage ditch.

In the Blue Ridge meeting, the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters.

Blue ribbon for one dozen white eggs was taken by Nyberg.

Eckstein was traded from the Toronto Blue Jays for Minor League pitcher Chad Beck.

Callinectes sapidus | Blue crab was used on the eastern and southern coast of what is now the U. S. mainland.

The U. S. military began targeting food crops in October 1962, primarily using Agent Blue ; the American public was not made aware of the crop destruction programs until 1965 ( and it was then believed that crop spraying had begun that spring ).

But time and the investigations of subsequent explorers have shown that Abbadie was quite trustworthy as to his facts, though wrong in his contention — hotly contested by Beke — that the Blue Nile was the main stream.

Blue Lightning, a game with After Burner-like graphics, was especially notable and featured in TV advertising for the console.

The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established.

The breed's characteristic gene mutation was maintained through linebreeding to the point where the condition was a fixed property in the Belgian Blue breed.

The downtown area through which the tunnels were to be dug was largely landfill, and included existing Red Line and Blue Line subway tunnels as well as innumerable pipes and utility lines that would have to be replaced or moved.

The Avro Blue Steel was a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear stand-off missile, built to arm the V bomber force.

Blue Steel was the result of a Ministry of Supply memorandum from 5 November 1954 that predicted that by 1960 Soviet air defences would make it prohibitively dangerous for V bombers to attack with nuclear gravity bombs.

His book on Blue Jacket was dramatized for outdoor performances and opened in 1982 outside of Xenia, Ohio.

Their later collaborations, The Double Life of Véronique and Three Colors ( Blue, White, Red ), focused on metaphysical questions of personal choice and appeared relatively apolitical, though the latter series was based on Piesiewicz's idea of dramatizing the French political ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity in the same way they had previously dramatized the Ten Commandments.