UK/European film & TV, page-488

The Blue Dahlia

This 1946 movie is one of the first Hollywood film noir efforts and it has quite a backstory.
It came from the typewriter of Raymond Chandler, whom many people might know for his crime novels, especially those featuring the archetype, laconic private eye of the 1940s (plus or minus some years) Phillip Marlowe.
At the time when Paramount was looking for a movie for its top star Alan Ladd before he was called back into the army, Chandler had a half finished book, Blue Dahlia, which he thought would make a film script.
What followed afterwards was probably a better story than the movie.
You can either read about it in Wikipedia or listen to a radio play which was made about it in 1996:
https://www.radioechoes.com/?page=play_download&mode=download&dl_mp3folder=M&dl_file=miscellaneous_plays_1996-03-14_lost_fortnight.mp3&dl_series=Miscellaneous%20Plays&dl_title=Lost%20Fortnight&dl_date=1996.03.14&dl_size=13.15%20MB

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