1/9/2024 0 Comments Gaslight 1944Now come.Īfter the argument Gregory leaves the house to work in his nearby studio and Paula retreats in tears to her bedroom. Gregory: Oh, my dear, I’m afraid you are far from well enough for the theatre. Gregory: Now, Paula, I think you'd better go to your room. I only looked there because that's where it was found twice before. Gregory: So you knew where it was all the time. ![]() At length, when he sends her upstairs to look for the missing item, she locates it behind a grandfather clock. Gregory insists on interrogating the servants about the picture in front of the embarrassed Paula. Why should I?… Don’t look at me like that. Gregory: Will you please get it from wherever you've hidden it and put it back in its place? What has happened?Ī small painting has been taken from the wall, leaving an incriminating shadow on the wallpaper where it once hung. Paula: But what, Gregory, what? Oh, please don’t turn your back on me. If you will put things right when I’m not looking, we’ll assume it did not happen. Gregory: Paula, I don’t want to upset you. But just as they’re about to set off, his mood darkens. Nonetheless, Paula is delighted when Gregory offers to take her to the theatre. He begins flirting with the new maidservant in front of his wife. Gregory reveals himself to be quick-tempered and controlling. The relationship that had initially seemed passionate and romantic starts to fray. Suddenly, I'm beginning not to trust my memory at all. I don't remember opening my bag, but I suppose I must have. Paula: But your present to me, your mother's broach. Paula: I must have pulled it out with something, I suppose. Oh, I’m terribly sorry, Gregory, please forgive me… Gregory: Oh Paula, didn't I tell you? How did you come to lose it? However, on their return, the broach is gone. He puts it in Paula’s handbag for safe-keeping as they set off on a rare trip out to visit the Tower of London. In a brief moment of intimacy, he gives Paula a broach that had belonged to his mother and her mother before that. Now that they are established in their new home, Gregory becomes increasingly cold and brusque. ![]() He also determines that Paula is not well enough to go out and gives the servants strict instructions not to admit visitors. Gregory resolves to clear everything away into the attic. The old house is cluttered with her aunt’s possessions with heavy curtains, elaborate ornaments and antique furniture – and all covered in dustsheets. There she meets and marries accompanist Gregory Anton (Boyer).ĭespite Paula’s understandable qualms, Gregory insists that the newlyweds take up residence in the long-vacant townhouse on Thornton Square. When the aunt is mysteriously murdered, Paula is sent to Italy to study music. Paula Alquist (Bergman) has been raised by her aunt in a large house on Thornton Square. It gave birth to the term often applied to psychological abuse: ‘gaslighting.’ This fine film, directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Joseph Cotton, tells the story of a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane. I recently watched the 1944 version of ‘ Gaslight’, a psychological thriller set in Edwardian London, adapted from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 stage play of the same name. Losing things…Now don’t be so worried, Paula. ‘I’ve been noticing, Paula, that you’ve been forgetful lately.
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