xxi, 139 pp. With a memoir by John Houseman. Edited, with an afterword by Matthew J. Bruccoli. The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 American crime film and film noir with an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler[3][4] directed by George Marshall and starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and William Bendix.[5] It was Chandler's first original screenplay.--Wikipedia