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This week's Paramount 1944 films take the studio's talent of this period in unexpected directions: Mitchell Leisen's\xa0Lady in the Dark\xa0makes a Technicolor extravaganza of the fantasy sequences in this psychoanalytical tale of a woman's (Ginger Rogers') ambivalence about glamour, based on a hit Broadway musical; and Alan Ladd and Raymond Chandler (as star and screenwriter) bring a hardboiled note to a soapy plot about a socialite (Loretta Young) seeking a cure for her deafness in\xa0And Now Tomorrow, a woman's picture/noir hybrid with more interest in class issues than that genre usually shows. Bouncing off of Martin Scorsese, we discuss the "psychological disturbance" in relationships between men and women in Hollywood musicals and just what\xa0Lady in the Dark\xa0has to say about the possibility of an equal relationship between a woman and a man.\xa0

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Time Codes:

0h 00m 45s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 LADY IN THE DARK [dir. Mitchell Leisen]

0h 31m 58s: \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 AND NOW TOMORROW [dir. Irving Pichel]

0h 52m 35s:\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Letter from Listener Gregory

Studio Film Capsules provided by The Paramount Story by John Douglas Eames \xa0

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

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