Word: milland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help which Miss Rogers received from Ray Milland, Walter Baxter, and Jon Hall cannot rate with the help which Miss Lawrence was the recipient of in the play. For "Lady in the Dark" will probably go down in theatrical history as the show that introduced to a palpitating public Danny Kaye and Victor Mature. Hit of the play was Danny Kaye's song of the Russian composers, which doesn't show in the movies...
Lady in the Dark (Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Warner Baxter, Jon Hall; TIME...
Liza Elliott (Ginger Rogers), the frigid, tailored editor of a fashion magazine, works so hard at her job, and at her avoidance of life, that she is near breakdown. In her waking hours Editor Elliott 1) keeps snapping at the office pest (Ray Milland) who insists on calling her Boss-Lady, 2) cannot bring herself to marry her lover (Warner Baxter) when divorce at last sets him free, 3) is attracted, to her own bewilderment, by a massively masculine cinemactor (Jon Hall). Asleep, she has spectacular dreams, complete with music. She consults a psychoanalyst (Barry Sullivan). In just four interviews...
...engaging, with plenty of highly varnished dialogue and playing. Editor Elliott's dreams and the flashbacks to her youth come in every color of the rainbow and a few besides. She dreams (amid dry-ice mist and nacreous space) of getting a magnificent blue dress in which Mr. Milland paints her portrait-a cruel caricature of her old-maidishness. She dreams (in white and gold) of climbing a gigantic wedding cake while vast choirs shout her praises. She dreams (in candy colors) of a circus which turns into a trial, with a gibbering jury of freaks and clowns...
...Uninvited (Paramount) is a ghost picture as creepy as a rattlesnake ranch. The ectospasms begin shyly while London Composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister (Ruth Hussey) are sitting in a vacant house on the Devonshire coast, wondering whether to buy it. While they talk, some roses they have brought along shrivel up quick-&-quietly as closing fans...