The Green-Eyed Blonde 1957

Maggie Wilson [Sally Brophy] joins the staff of a California institution for wayward girls, run by the stern Mrs. Nichols [Jean Inness]. A new arrival, Betsy Abel [Melinda Casey], hates her mother and has a two-month-old baby of her own, refusing to identify the father.

Greeneyes, [Susan Oliver] is due to be released in a few weeks. Her boyfriend, Cliff [Ray Foster], is a former drug addict determined to stay clean. The girls at the school bond, especially when Betsy’s mother visits, threatening to put the baby up for adoption unless Betsy names the father so he can pay for the baby’s support. The mother is unaware her own boyfriend impregnated her daughter.

Betsy’s mother brings the baby to the school during her visit and leaves it in the car. One of the girls takes the child, and all the girls in the school band together to care for it in secret. They keep the baby hidden for 10 days, but Maggie Wilson finally finds the baby and agrees to let them keep it through Christmas, only three days away. The next day, on Maggie’s day off, the baby is discovered by Mrs. Nichols, who has it taken away. As the baby is driven off to an orphanage, the girls start a full-scale riot and destroy the school. Greeneyes is given a six-month extension to her sentence, against Maggie’s recommendation. Greeneyes escapes, but she and Cliff rob a store and, when they are chased by police, they are killed.