Lady in the Dark (1944)Ginger Rogers, "Allure" magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuos daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why. Director:Mitchell Leisen |
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Lady in the Dark (1944)Ginger Rogers, "Allure" magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuos daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why. Director:Mitchell Leisen |
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Liza Elliott
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| Ray Milland | ... |
Charley Johnson
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| Warner Baxter | ... |
Kendall Nesbitt
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Jon Hall | ... |
Randy Curtis
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Barry Sullivan | ... |
Dr. Brooks
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| Mischa Auer | ... |
Russell Paxton
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Phyllis Brooks | ... |
Allison DuBois
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Mary Philips | ... |
Maggie Grant
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Edward Fielding | ... |
Dr. Carlton
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Don Loper | ... |
Adams
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Mary Parker | ... |
Miss Parker
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Catherine Craig | ... |
Miss Foster
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Marietta Canty | ... |
Martha
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Virginia Farmer | ... |
Miss Edwards
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Fay Helm | ... |
Miss Bowers
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Ginger Rogers, "Allure" magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuos daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why.
Great score mutilated, interesting stage libretto turned into an anti-feminist tract: It seems that our heroine, a successful and independent woman, needs a man to dominate her to be happy. (The stage version had the same basic story, but the rhetoric wasn't so vehemently misogynistic.) Ginger was more than a singer-dancer -- she could act, and had an Oscar to prove it -- but here her playing is dull and unimaginative. She, the art and costume and make-up departments, and the director seem concerned with two things only: the look of Ginger, and the look of the film. She looks fine, and the gaudy production design is a Technicolor riot, if not in the best of taste. The visual splendor makes the film worth seeing, but you'll have to tune a lot of nonsense out.