Lady in the Dark

2/19/2026

High fashion magazine editor “Liza” (Ginger Rogers) enjoys spatting with her employee “Charley” (Ray Milland) and is constantly trying to appease her never satisfied photographer “Paxton” (Mischa Auer). She’s also a bit of a nervous disaster zone, and so her doctor recommends that she see a psychotherapist (Barry Sullivan). This branch of medicine is still embryonic and somewhat sceptically thought of, but reluctantly she agrees and he immediately deduces that this divorcée has some deeply buried issues. In order to help her out, he sets about talking her through a series of scenarios that might unearth the source of her trauma. That allows Rogers to have half a dozen dream-like sequences that extend from the more successful and charismatic song and dance style routines to some less succes