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Genre. Thriller. Setting. On Angel Street, in the Pimlico district of London, 1880. Gas Light is a 1938 thriller play, set in 1880s London, written by the British novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton. [ 1 ] Hamilton's play is a dark tale of a marriage based on deceit and trickery, and a husband committed to driving his wife insane in order ...
Gaslight is a 1944 American psychological thriller film directed by George Cukor, and starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Angela Lansbury in her film debut. Adapted by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, and John L. Balderston from Patrick Hamilton 's play Gas Light (1938), it follows a young woman whose husband slowly ...
Under the Gaslight. The famous train scene. Advertisement for debut of play in August 11, 1867 issue of the New York Herald with full cast listing. Under the Gaslight is an 1867 play by Augustin Daly. It was his first successful play, and is a primary example of a melodrama, best known for its suspense scene where a person is tied to railroad ...
– Angela Lansbury. When Lansbury was nine, her father died from stomach cancer ; she retreated into playing characters as a coping mechanism. Facing financial difficulty, her mother entered a relationship with a Scottish colonel, Leckie Forbes, and moved into his house in Hampstead. Lansbury then received an education at South Hampstead High School from 1934 until 1939, where she was a ...
Bruce Hamilton (brother) Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton (17 March 1904 – 23 September 1962) [1] was an English playwright and novelist. He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley, and study of his novels has been revived because of their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war ...
Gaslight (released in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1940 British psychological thriller directed by Thorold Dickinson starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard, and features Frank Pettingell. The film adheres more closely to the original play upon which it is based – Patrick Hamilton 's Gas Light (1938) – than does the 1944 MGM ...
Gaslighting. Checked. Gaslighting is a colloquialism, defined as manipulating someone into questioning their own perception of reality. [1][2] The expression, which derives from the title of the 1944 film Gaslight, became popular in the mid-2010s. Merriam-Webster cites deception of one's memory, perception of reality, or mental stability. [2]
Laurence Olivier in a promotional still for Rebecca (1940). Laurence Olivier (1907–1989) was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles.