The Green-Eyed Blonde is a 1957 American drama film directed by Bernard Girard and written in collaboration by Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter; and his front Sally Stubblefield, who wrote the story that Trumbo then adapted for the screen.

The film stars Susan Oliver, Melinda Plowman, Beverly Long, Norma Jean Nilsson, Tommie Moore and Carla Merey.

[1][2] Maggie Wilson joins the staff of a California institution for wayward girls, run by the stern Mrs. Nichols.

A new arrival, Betsy Abel, hates her mother and has a two-month-old baby of her own, refusing to identify the father.

Maggie finally finds the baby, and lets them keep it through Christmas, but once Mrs. Nichols has it taken away, the girls start a full-scale riot.