Gaslight Articles

Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Bergman, Autumn Sonata Ingrid Bergman's best on-screen performance, as Liv Ullmann's painfully self-centered mother in Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata, can be appreciated on Friday, August 6 — Ingrid Bergman Day — on Turner Classic Movies. TCM's "Summer Under the Stars" film series continues with twelve Bergman movies, including more "esoteric" entries such as the aforementioned Autumn Sonata — actually one of director [...]

Angela Lansbury's "Summer Under the Stars" day is Sunday, Aug. 23. Thanks to the popular TV series Murder She Wrote, Angela Lansbury became a bigger star in the last two decades than she ever was during her heyday as an MGM contract player in the 1940s, supporting (or antagonizing) the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, and Elizabeth Taylor. Ironically, most people today [...]

Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr in Algiers Hedy Lamarr – Q&A with Author Patrick Agan: Part II Is it true that Hedy Lamarr refused the lead roles in Casablanca, Gaslight, and Saratoga Trunk? If so, do you know what her reaction was after those three films became huge hits for Ingrid Bergman? Let's get one thing straight off the bat. Hedy Lamarr never turned down Casablanca. [...]

Warner Bros. has begun developing a remake of Gaslight, the 1944 thriller directed by George Cukor, and starring Charles Boyer as a suave murderer and Ingrid Bergman as his naive — and quite wealthy — wife, who almost goes bananas before the final fadeout. The film received a total of seven Academy Award nominations: best picture, best director, best actor, best supporting actress (Angela Lansbury, [...]