Back on Broadway, she has trouble getting a handle on a crucial "The Saga of Jenny" number in "Lady in the Dark". Aldrich turns up at a daunting rehearsal where he observes her frustration and takes her, with Coward, out to a nightclub. She protests, then realizes the kind of performance they are watching is the key to her dilemma in the show. Coward pronounces him "a very clever man". After a rousing performance of "Jenny", the film ends with her marriage to Aldrich, eight years before her triumph in "The King and I" and untimely death from liver cancer at the age of 54.