LADY IN THE DARK
(Paramount)
HIS is getting a little out of date by now, but as even critics may be expected to take annual holidays I have few excuses for noticing
it so tardily or so briefly. It presents Ginger Rogers as a psychological mess who is reconverted into a normal Ameri- : can young woman (suitable for marrying to Ray Milland) by the application of a little elementary psychiatry. But al-. though the psychiatry itself is elemen-_ tary, the application isn’t: it must have cost Paramount an enormous amount of time, trouble, and technicolour to think. up all those dream sequences in which Miss Rogers’s subconscious runs riot to music. I have been told that there was a great deal of daring Freudian symbolism in these dream sequences, but there must be something wrong with my Id, because I didn’t notice any. Perhaps I was too busy looking at the colour and Miss Rogers. Both are well worth looking at.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 294, 9 February 1945, Page 17
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161LADY IN THE DARK New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 294, 9 February 1945, Page 17
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