![]() The Oxford English Dictionary shortlisted “gaslighting” for their word of the year in 2018, and had it won (“toxic” was ultimately chosen), that would have been a great 75th birthday present for the Cukor movie these six months later. Simultaneously, the consideration of gaslighting as a form of abuse, typically as it is in the play and films as psychological manipulation of a woman by a man, has become significant to the #metoo movement. ![]() During the 2016 US presidential election, both sides claimed the other was gaslighting Americans with everything from lies to the spreading of fake news and other kinds of disinformation. In recent years, Gas Light has become more and more relevant for the term it spawned. All are based on Patrick Hamilton‘s 1938 play, which has a slightly different title of Gas Light and which was alternately known as Angel Street in the US. An earlier film adaptation was made in England in 1940, and that version only survives (and is actually more easily available via Amazon Prime) because MGM was unsuccessful in an attempt to destroy all prints of the film.įollowing the 1944 release, which earned Bergman her first Academy Award and garnered Angela Lansbury her first Oscar nomination in her film debut, numerous TV and radio versions of Gaslight were produced, and that doesn’t even include the parody “Autolight,” over which MGM tried to sue Jack Benny. ![]() The most well-known version of Gaslightis the Hollywood production directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Joseph Cotten, which opened in New York City on May 4, 1944. ![]()
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