Gaslight (1944 film)

:This article is about the 1944 film Gaslight. For the 1940 film see Gaslight (1940 film).

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Gaslight is a 1944 film directed by George Cukor starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. The film was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. Ingrid Bergman won the Best Actress Oscar while Boyer was nominated for Best Actor and Angela Lansbury was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in her film debut. The story is based on the Patrick Hamilton play Angel Street, in which a man marries a woman and tries to convince her she is crazy so that he can steal the jewels stored in her attic.

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1944 - George Cukor - Ingrid Bergman - Charles Boyer - Angela Lansbury - Patrick Hamilton - Angel Street

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The makers of this film attempted to have all copies of the 1940 version destroyed, but they were unsuccessful as copies of the older version have survived and critics are divided as to which is actually the better film.

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The term "to gaslight someone" -- to make someone think he or she is going insane -- derives from the titles and subject matter of these two films.

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