The Green-Eyed Blonde

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.

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Cast

Susan Oliver

Phyllis 'Greeneyes'

Melinda Casey

Betsy Abel (as Linda Plowman)

Beverly Long

Renie

Norma Jean Nilsson

Cuckoo

Tommie Moore

Trixie Budlong

Carla Merey

Joyce

Sally Brophy

Maggie Wilson (as Sallie Brophy)

Jean Inness

Mrs. Nichols (as Jean Innes)

Olive Blakeney

Miss Vandingham

Anne Barton

Sally Abel