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Movies:
GASLIGHT
(1944)
For her role in this movie, Angela obtained her
first Oscar Nomination as
Best Supporting Actress
in 1945.
Reviews
Amazon.com Review
George Cukor helped transform a moody Victorian
stage melodrama (previously filmed in Britain
in 1939) into a gothic Hollywood romantic thriller.
Ingrid Bergman stars as a meek, uncertain heiress
courted and married in a whirlwind romance by
the debonair Charles Boyer, but when they move
back into her childhood home she begins losing
her grip on reality and becomes convinced that
her husband is trying to drive her insane. Joseph
Cotten, rather stiff and colorless next to the
anguished Bergman and charming and lively Boyer,
is the heroic Scotland Yard detective who becomes
enamored of the skittish woman who is slowly succumbing
to madness. The grand, glorious sets and elegant
photography recall Hitchcock's Rebecca, another
lush Hollywood gothic melodrama of a retiring
young wife overwhelmed by the history of her abode,
and Gaslight is still assumed by some to be a
Hitchcock film (the Bergman connection doesn't
help the confusion). It's really a rather straightforward
thriller with a forced plot device, but under
Cukor's control the tightly constructed script
is given the full MGM treatment, then reined in
for intimate moments of harrowing suspense. Boyer
brilliantly played off his continental lover reputation
by adding an undercurrent of malevolence and Bergman
won an Oscar for her haunted performance. It also
marks the memorable debut of Angela Lansbury as
a saucy maid unwittingly drawn into Boyer's master
plan. -- Sean Axmaker
Synopsis
[ WORKS IN PROGRESS ]
Amazon.co.uk
Classification: 
Starring: Angela Lansbury, et al.
Director: George Cukor
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