The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957)

6.1/10 • 72 min • Drama Crime

Overview

Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (working under the pseudonym “Sally Stubblefield”) tells a rough-edged tale of life inside a 1950s women’s reformatory. Set in the Martha Washington School for Girls—an institute for wayward teenagers and unwed mothers—THE GREEN-EYED BLONDE tackles a range of topical social issues as the inmates band together to help out one of their own when she refuses to give up her child.

Cast

Susan Oliver

Phyllis 'Greeneyes'

Melinda Casey

Betsy Abel (as Linda Plowman)

Norma Jean Nilsson

Cuckoo

Sally Brophy

Maggie Wilson (as Sallie Brophy)

Olive Blakeney

Miss Vandingham

Margaret Brayton

Mrs. Adams

Juanita Moore

Miss Randall

Betty Lou Gerson

Mrs. Ferguson

Stafford Repp

Bill Prell

Evelyn Scott

Helen

Roy Glenn

Mr. Budlong

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