The Black Dahlia
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Brian De Palma
Joost Scholte
Steve Eastin
Troy Evans
Danny Ponce
Scarlett Johansson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Elizabeth "Betty" Short, a 22-year-old aspiring actress from the East Coast who wore a delicate flower in her raven hair and became many things to many people--dear friend, beloved sister, estranged daughter, frequent girlfriend and accused prostitute. On January 15, 1947, she was discovered brutally splayed in a vacant lot near Leimert Park in downtown Los Angeles. Enter onto the scene two ex-pugilist police officers, Lee Blanchard and Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert, the poster boys for 1940s LAPD. The new partners' first homicide case starts with a call from their supervisor, Detective Millard, to investigate the slaying of the ambitious silver screen B-lister Betty Short, just as they leave a deadly shootout. Blanchard and Bleichert, like the rest of the fascinated city, become drawn into the lurid world of the Dahlia's L.A. While Blanchard's growing preoccupation with the Dahlia's murder threatens his relationship with girlfriend Kay Lake, Bleichert finds himself irresistibly drawn to the enigmatic Madeleine Linscott, the daughter of one of the city's most prominent families--who just happens to have an unsavory connection (and resemblance) to the Dahlia. Blanchard spins into obsession trying to solve the case, seeing in Betty the chance to redeem himself for letting down the other women in his life that he failed to protect. Bleichert, too, begins to question his own footing as his feelings fluctuate wildly between two disparate dames: the seemingly innocent Kay and the knowingly seductive Madeleine--whose unhinged mother, Ramona, proves to hold more than a passing clue to the mystery. Determined to be famous, destined to be infamous, Betty Short affected more lives dead than she could possibly alive. She dreamed of being photographed for the big screen but wound up the pin-up girl of tabloid autopsy photos.
Director
Brian De Palma
Cast
Joost Scholte
Steve Eastin
Troy Evans
Danny Ponce
Scarlett Johansson
Dave Hartley
Fiona Shaw
Valya Mladenova
Richard Brake
James Otis
Graham Norris
Patrick Fischler
Mike O'connell
Anthony F Russell
Rose Mcgowan
Fatso Fasano
Gregg Henry
Mia Kirshner
Jane Marshall
Ian Mcneice
Todd Thomas
John Solari
John Kavanagh
Aaron Eckhart
Petar Milchev
Noel Arthur
Victor Mcguire
Angus Macinnes
Pepe Serna
Mike Starr
Jemima Rooper
Michael P Flannigan
William Finley
Bill Maxwell
Rachel Miner
Stephanie Moore
Mia Frye
Hilary Swank
Josh Hartnett
Kiril Efremov
Laurel Macdonald
Mark Isham
Claudia Katz
Crew
Rachel Abarbanell
Ruben Abarca
Gina Abatemarco
Marisa Aboitiz
Timothy D. Ackers
Tsila Adler
Hristo Aleksandrov
Ivan Aleksandrov
Emil Alexiev
H. Leah Amir
Daniela Ancheva
Dobril Kinov Andreev
Curtis A Andrews
Miroslav Angelov
Petko Angelov
Giovanni Angler
Mihail Apostolov
Selena Arizanovic
Marian Asande
Asen Asenov
Emil Asenov
Niki Asenov
Vladislav Asenov
Sylvia Asenova
Peter Atanasov
Luba Atanasova
Asi Avramov
Angel Baberov
Steve Baine
Krasimir Balchov
Terry Baliel
Grigor Bankov
Anna Bankova
John W Barbee
Cecil Barber
Chris Barnes
Scott Barry
Pierluigi Basile
Ryan Beadle
Abby Bean
Jenny Beavan
Todd Beckett
Ramiro Belgardt
Frank Bennett
Anne Berger
Eric Bergren
Brian Berkel
Maria C Berryhill
Victor Bikarski
Phil Blackaby
Bogomil Blagoev
Kirk Bloom
Simeon Boev
Miglena Bogdanova
Yordan Bojich
Milen Bojichov
Valeri Bojilchev
Delyan Borisov
Miroslav Borisov
Ivan Borushev
Willie Botha
Lucy Boulting
Stoyan Boyadjiev
Brad Boyer
Asen Bozilov
Erik L Brown
Jesse Brown
Donald Bruce
Alexander Bscheidl
Dirk Buchmann
Orlin Ilchev Budinov
Roger Byrd
Steve Caldwell
David T Cannon
Rosica Canovska
Fiodor Canovski
Carmen Carpenter
Amy Carroll
Jamie Castalano
Mike Castillo
John Cazin
Alessandro Cedoloni
Jeff Charles
Angel Chaushev
Scott E Chester
Michael Chickey
Angela Cimarusti
Linda Cipperley
Ira Clarckson
Ross Clarkson
Bonnie Clevering
Michael Clifford
Karen Cockrell
Reed Cohan
Jeff Cohen
Rudy Cohen
Samuel Cohen
Elie Cohn
Maggie Cohn
Buck Compton
Christopher Cortijo
George Cowin
Mark Cross
Giulia Chiara Crugnola
Sam Dabbs
Chad Darnell
Boaz Davidson
Dicky Deats
Jerry C Deats
Shannon Deats
Brad Dechter
Lee Delang
Carol Delossantos
Bill Deluca
Craig Demartini
Sonya Despotova
Peter Detoffoli
Sean Devine
Kyle Devreindt
Emaniul Deyanov
Rolf Deyhle
Vittorio Di Perzio
Moshe Diamant
David Diamond
Carla Dibello
Spiro Dichev
Niki Dikov
David Dilley
Danny Dimbort
Georgi Dimitrov
Georgi Dimitrov
Pavel Dimitrov
Pavel Dimitrov
Stoycho Tinkov Dimitrov
Vladimir Dimitrov
Dimo Dimov
Kiril Dimov
Stefan Dinev
Ekaterina Dineva
Leticia Nikolova Dineva
Luchezar Dobrev
Svetozar Doichev
Maria Doicheva
Dennis Dorney
Ryan Dorney
Mark Dornfeld
Dimitar Doychinov
Tulio Duenas
Nikolai Dulev
Michael S Duncan
Bogidar Eftov
Lucinda Egerton
Mark Egerton
Valance Eisleben
Hristo Elangiev
Katalin Elek
Zoltan Elek
Keith Elliott
James Ellroy
Miroslav Yankov Enev
Barry Ennis
Tanya Esteves
Emil Evtimov
Lubomir Evtimov
Petya Evtimova
Paula Fairfield
Paula Fairfield
Roberta Federica
Dante Ferretti
Michele Ferrone
Sue Field
Filip Filipov
Ed Fincher
Martin Finke
Michael P Flannigan
Claude Forest
Ed Franch
Elli Frantzes
Josh Friedman
Elisabeth Fry
Mia Frye
Joe Garland
John Garrett
Antonio Garrido
Adam Gass
Rosemary Gearhart
Evgeni Genchev
Svetla Genova
Alexander Georgiev
Boyan Georgiev
Gabriel Georgiev
George Angelov Georgiev
Ivailo Georgiev
Stoyan Georgiev
Zoran Georgiev
Didi Georgieva
Vencislav Gergov
Nimi Getter
Amy Gillespie
Amy Glenn
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Cinematography
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall September 15, 2006
Released in United States on Video December 26, 2006
Released in United States 2006
Released in United States September 2006
Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Opening Night) August 30-September 9, 2006.
Shown at Deauville Festival of American Cinema (Premiere) September 1-10, 2006.
Based on the novel "Black Dahlia" written by James Ellroy; published by Warner Books September, 1988.
Apollomedia FilmManagement was previously attached to co-finance.
David Fincher and David Lynch were previously attached to direct.
Mark Wahlberg was previously attached to star but dropped out to star in "The Italian Job 2."
Released in United States Fall September 15, 2006
Released in United States on Video December 26, 2006
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Opening Night) August 30-September 9, 2006.)
Released in United States September 2006 (Shown at Deauville Festival of American Cinema (Premiere) September 1-10, 2006.)
