A Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of "The Blue Gardenia" aired 30 November 1954, with the lead roles taken by Dana Andrews – in the role Fritz Lang had wanted him to play in the film – and Ruth Roman: Andrews would later play the male lead in both the 1956 movies: "While the City Sleeps" and "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt", which were the second and third installments of the "newspaper noir" movie trio Lang began with the movie "The Blue Gardenia" (Lang was not involved in the Lux Radio production).