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Saturday, Jul 25, 1998
Lady in the Dark
Freud and fashion are never far apart if one is to believe the movies. Fantasy plays a role in both, to be sure. In this adaptation of a Moss Hart/Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin musical comedy, Ginger Rogers is a successful fashion magazine editor whose life is made impossible by chronic indecisiveness. On the psychoanalyst's couch, she conjures telling incidents from her childhood and recent dreams that are nothing short of Technicolor-coded costume spectacles. Director Mitchell Leisen contributed designs to this film's parade of outrageous Hollywood fashions. The queen of costume designers, Edith Head, created the mother of all gowns for Rogers, a full-length mink dress complete with bolero jacket and wide skirt slit at the front to reveal a red lining and gold sequins. It cost a cool $35 thou. That's a lot of sessions on the couch. (JB)
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