With 10 or 11 silent films on its roster, the world/fusion music band Blue Dahlia considers Buster Keaton's "The General" the most complex it has scored. "The are more than 20 independent pieces ...

Paramount's fallen angels were quieter onscreen than Bogart and Bacall, but their visual harmony as slender, diminutive blond(e)s – he hard and unsentimental, she silky and insouciant – made for ...

When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son's death. He ...

Playing a discharged naval flier returning home from the Pacific first to find his wife unfaithful, then to find her murdered and himself in hiding as the suspect, Alan Ladd does a bangup job.

The death of Elizabeth Short, aka the Black Dahlia, remains as one of the biggest and most disturbing murder mysteries of the 20th century. Short was born in Boston. After spending her early years in ...

Veronica Lake was one of the hottest stars of the 1940s, known for her femme fatale roles in classic noirs films such asThis Gun for Hire and The Blue Dahlia and her signature peek-a-boo hairstyle and ...

Stage adaptation of Raymond Chandler's 1946 film noir classic can't decide whether it is faithfully re-creating the gritty intensity of the whodunit or offering a tongue-in-cheek spoof of the genre.