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Lady in the Dark (1954)

Ann SothernFilm & TelevisionMusicMusicals
  • 1954

This was a live presentation from the very early days of television of the same Weill/Gershwin musical we have elsewhere in the collection (from 1944, starring Ginger Rogers, and in the movie Star! with Julie Andrews). Ann Sothern plays Liza, and she sings the “The Saga of Jenny,” which contains the great, sexually forward lyric (especially for its original date in the early 40s!) about Vassar girls. The setting is a dream sequence, of a trial conducted by a circus.