The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957)
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
