Lady in the Dark: Lux Radio Theatre (January 29, 1945)

“Lady in the Dark” is an episode of Lux Radio Theatre, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 29, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

On a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast of January 29, 1945, Liza Elliot, the editor of a New York fashion magazine, struggles with anxiety and indecision about her life. Her colleague Charlie Johnson teases her, and her lover Kendall Nesbitt, who is hoping to divorce his wife, wants to marry her. Liza visits a psychoanalyst, Dr. Brooks, and describes troubling dreams of a wedding and of being the center of attention. Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland star in this adaptation of the Broadway musical Lady in the Dark.

New York City, in a modern fashion magazine office and related locations

Characters: Liza Elliot, Charlie Johnson, Kendall Nesbitt, Dr. Brooks, Randy Curtis, Maggie, Russell, Foster

Listen for: Liza's dream descriptions and her sessions with Dr. Brooks, which reveal her inner conflicts

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.