15 thoughts on “TBT: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

  1. Trivia
    Angela Lansbury (Not LanDsbury)
    Her second Movie.
    Her only movie in which her Mother appears, Moyna Macgill

    1. As a sort of inside joke, Angela Lansbury sang “Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird” in an episode of Murder, She Wrote,” playing her music-hall-performer cousin in London.

  2. omg love everything Angela Lansbury but definitely these glimpses of when she was young and wide-eyed. (I know her most from Murder, She Wrote, so you know…)

  3. The men’s costumes are simply horrid. I give the a failing degrade of F. While the women’s are merely okay, so they get a C.
    I saw the movie ages ago. Neither men appealed to me as hunks.
    On the other hand, Dorian in Penny Dreadful is a hunk.

  4. I’m pretty certain that the evening dress in the last photo is recycled from “Gaslight” of 1944 , having been used before as Ingrid Bergman’s ball gown she wore to Lady Dalroy’s ball.

    They at least look ridiculously similar.

  5. Hoo, I’m old. Recognized Donna Reed, of the 50’s Donna Reed Show (TeeVee). Peter Lawford, married to a Kennedy and one of the Rat Pack. All young and bright-eyed. I probably watched this on afternoon tv in the 50’s. Now I have to hunt for it.

    Also, 40’s hair.

  6. This bring back memories. When I was about eleven this was aired on the telly, and my parents forbid me to Watch it. so I saw it on the sly from the hallway behind my parnets back. The end, where Dorian transforms into his true hideous self, came as a complete shock, and I dreamt nightmares for weeks. But I couldn’t tell my parent’s about it.

    Now I see it has George Sanders. I Think I need to revisit this Movie! I’ll probably find it very tame now. :)

  7. That painting is an Ivan Albright and hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago along with a few of his others. It is even more terrible and grotesque in person. If you are a fan of the movie, I would strongly recommend seeing it in person if you’re ever in Chicago.

  8. The Picture of Dorian Gray is my favorite novel but I can’t do this movie. George Sander is a wonderful Harry and Angela Lansbury is super cute as Sybil but everyone and everything else just feels so wrong. Even though is it isn’t great either there is a 70s version that I prefer, no idea why.

  9. The interior design of Dorian’s house (a Regency style with a few drops of Art déco aesthetics) deserves an article of its own. It is truly breathtaking!

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