GASLIGHT
1944

When this film was produced, MGM attempted to have all prints of the previous version, The Murder in Thornton Square (1940), destroyed. 

New scenes not in the original play were added to this version of "Gaslight", and the names of most of the characters were changed. The character that Joseph Cotten plays was changed from a stout, humorously sardonic elderly man to a young, handsome one in order to serve as a potential love interest for Ingrid Bergman, and in order to appeal more to the audience.

In her autobiography, Ingrid Bergman called Charles Boyer the most intelligent actor she ever worked with and one of the nicest. "He was widely read and well educated, and so different," she wrote.

Angela Lansbury was only 17 when she made this, her film debut. The scene in which she lights a cigarette had to be postponed until toward the end of production because she was a minor had to be monitored by a social worker who refused to allow Lansbury to smoke while she was a minor. It was therefore filmed on her eighteenth birthday. 

PLOT:
Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if it means driving his wife insane.

CAST:
Charles Boyer ... Gregory Anton
Ingrid Bergman ... Paula Alquist
Joseph Cotten ... Brian Cameron
Dame May Whitty ... Miss Thwaites
Angela Lansbury ... Nancy
Barbara Everest ... Elizabeth
Emil Rameau ... Maestro Guardi
Edmund Breon ... General Huddleston
Halliwell Hobbes ... Mr. Muffin
Tom Stevenson ... Williams
Heather Thatcher ... Lady Dalroy
Lawrence Grossmith ... Lord Dalroy
Jakob Gimpel ... Pianist

Director: George Cukor

RUNNING TIME: 114 MINUTES