View company contact information for Gaslight on IMDbPro. [1]
When later remade as Gaslight (1944) with Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman, the studio (MGM) attempted to have all prints of this earlier version destroyed. [2]
Gaslight is a 1944 mystery -thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton ’s play Angel Street. [...] The perpetrator bolted, without the jewels he sought, after being interrupted by Paula (Bergman), Alice’s niece, who was raised by her aunt following her mother’s death. [...] This 1944 version of the story was directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and eighteen-year-old Angela Lansbury in her screen debut. [3]
View company contact information for The Murder in Thornton Square on IMDbPro. [2]
When David O. Selznick heard this (Ingrid Bergman was under contract to him at the time), he refused to loan MGM Bergman’s services. [1]
At the Tower of London, Paula loses a brooch that Gregory had given her, despite its having been stored safely in her handbag. [3]
A murder of a famous opera singer has been committed. [...] Charles Boyer ’s contract stipulated top billing. [1]
As such, the thriller is grounded in a reality that the later version can never have. [2]
At the 1944 Academy Awards, the film was nominated for seven Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actress for Ingrid Bergman, Best Actor for Charles Boyer, Best Supporting Actress for Angela Lansbury, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction (black and white) (Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Edwin B. Willis, Paul Huldschinsky), and Best Cinematography (black and white), winning for actress and art direction. [...] Before they do, Paula discovers a letter addressed to her aunt by a man named Sergius Bauer, dated only two days before the murder, tucked away in a music book. [...] He persuades her they should live in the long-vacant London townhouse her aunt bequeathed her and, to help calm her anxieties, suggests they store all of Alice’s furnishings away in the attic. [3]
The later version is Hollywood English, which I sometimes think is a downtown section of Hollywood Transylvanian. [2]
Sources:
[1] Gaslight (1944)
[2] Gaslight (1940)
[3] Gaslight (1944 film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
