RICK'S REAL REEL LIFE: 'Lady in the Dark': Over the Top Style Over Substance 1944 Ginger Rogers wearing a dress designed by Edith Head for the 1944 musical Lady in the Dark. Although the war years were a period of frugality in Hollywood costumes, this film was Ginger wearing black satin evening gown by Bernard Newman for Roberta (1935). [swipe to see her dancing with Fred in this dress] In her memoir, Ginger wrote, For the Smoke Gets in Hollywood Revisited Brings Glamour to Santa Monica College