Born on this day – Angela Lansbury:

Angela Lansbury

Actress

Singer

October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022

Credits:

10th Annual Ribbon of Hope Celebration (2007); 12h45 (2022); 13 Stars for Channel 13 (1969); 1st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (1995); 2003 Annual BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards (2003); 2005 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards (2005); 25th Annual Family Film Awards (2022); 3rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (1997); 50th Annie Awards (2023); 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards (2006); 53rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1996); 60 Minutes (1996); A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury (1996); A Breath of Scandal (1960); A Lawless Street (1955); A Life at Stake (1955); A Life in Words and Music (2007); A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington (2012); A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009); A Talent for Murder (1983); ABC News Breakfast (2025); About Schmidt (2002); Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 50th Anniversary Celebration Tribute to Bob Hope (1996); Access Hollywood (2022); AFI Life Achievement Award (1993–2008); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies (2004); Agatha Christie: A Woman of Mystery (2007); All Fall Down (1962); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Amanpour & Company (2022); Amanpour. (2014); Amazing World of Radio (2019); American Graduate Day (2016); American Masters (1991–2000); America's All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (1989); America's Top Sleuths (2006); Anastasia (1997); Anastasia's Music Box Favorites (1997); Angela Lansbury & Friends Benefiting Salute to Terrence McNally (2011); Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves (1988); Aspel & Company (1990); At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper (1995); At the Paley Center (2010); Backstory (2001); Beauty and the Beast (1991); Beauty and the Beast DVD Read-Along (2002); Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along (2020); Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Bednobs, Broomsticks and Beyond (1998); Biography (1995–2006); Birth of Hollywood (2011); Blithe Spirit (2014); Blue Hawaii (1961); Bob Hope & Friends: Making New Memories (1991); Bob Hope: The First 90 Years (1993); Breakfast (2011); Bride of Chucky (1998); Brisant (2022); Britain's Favourite Detectives (2014); Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl (1994); Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Broadway: The American Musical (2004); Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003); Butterfly in the Sky (2022); Buttons, A New Musical Film (2018); Call Me Kate (2023); Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2012); Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010); CBS at 75 (2003); CBS Mornings (1995); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2023); CBS: The First 50 Years (1998); Cecil B. 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(1988); Disney Through the Decades (2001); Disney's Beauty and the Beast: Magical Ballroom (2000); Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All (2001); Do You Sleep in the Nude? (2007); Donahue (1990); Downton Abbey Revisited (2012); Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002); Elizabeth Taylor: A Tribute (2011); Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (2024); Elvis Presley: Hot Shots and Cool Clips Volume 2 (2007); Elvis: #1 Hit Performances (2007); Entertainment Tonight (2008–2025); Every Act of Life (2018); Everything Is Terrible: The Movie (2009); Famous Nathan (2014); Fantasia 2000 (1999); Film '84 (1984); Film Night (1973); Fireside Theatre (1955); Forever Hollywood (1999); Four Star Playhouse (1954–1955); Frank Capra's American Dream (1997); Front Row Center (1956); Gala Tribute AFI's 40th Anniversary (2007); Gaslight (1944); General Electric Theater (1954); Glass Onion (2022); Glorious Technicolor (1998); Good Day Live (2004); Good Morning America (2022); Grammy Living Legends (1989); Great Performances (1985–2018); Harlow (1965); Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up (2023); HBO First Look (2008); Heidi 4 Paws (2009); Helter Skelter: An American Myth (2020); Hollywood Backstage (1964–1968); Howard (2018); Iconic Vision: John Parkinson, Architect of Los Angeles (2018); If Winter Comes (1947); In the Cool of the Day (1963); Ingrid (1984); Inside the Dream Factory (1995); Inter-Stitch-als (2001); Intimate Portrait (2003); Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (1985–2001); Kind Lady (1951); Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix (2017); Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix (2014); Kingdom Hearts II (2005); Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ (2007); Knives Out (2019); Kyle Riabko: The Lead (2009); Lace (1984); Larry King Live (2004); Larry King Now (2018); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (2007); Late Show with David Letterman (1994–1995); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2005); Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005); Les Chroniques du Mea (2020–2025); Les enfants de la télé (2020); Liberty Weekend (1986); Little Gloria... 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On this day in movie history – Gaslight (1944 movie & play):

Gaslight

directed by George Cukor,

written by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch and John L. Balderston,

based on the play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton,

was released in the United States on May 4, 1944.
Music by Bronislau Kaper.

Cast:

Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Emil Rameau, Edmund Breon, Halliwell Hobbes, Tom Stevenson, Heather Thatcher, Lawrence Grossmith, Jakob Gimpel, Harry Adams, Lassie Lou Ahern, John Ardizoni, Frank Baker, Wilson Benge, Arnold Bennett, Florence Benson, Arthur Blake, Lillian Bronson, Alec Craig, Antonio D'Amore, Wynne Davis, Frank Eldredge, Maude Fealy, Al Ferguson, Helen Flint, Gibson Gowland, Gary Gray, Roger Gray, Bobbie Hale, Joy Harington, Tom Hughes, Jack Kirk, Pat Malone, Al Masiello, Charles McNaughton, Terry Moore, Clive Morgan, Georgie Nokes, Joseph North, Tarquin Olivier, Elsie Prescott, Joseph Romantini, Syd Saylor, Arthur Stone, Alix Terry, Morgan Wallace, Eric Wilton, Eustace Wyatt, Katherine Yorke, Phyllis Yuse, Guy Zanette.

Recommended reading:

Gas Light

a play by Patrick Hamilton.

Filmed as:

Gaslight (1940), directed by Thorold Dickinson.

Gaslight (1944), directed by George Cukor.

Published by Constable and Company Ltd.

First published 1939.

ASIN: B0DSZRVND4

Paperback.

Description:

This classic Victorian thriller was first produced in 1935. Jack Manningham is slowly, deliberately driving his wife, Bella, insane. He has almost succeeded when help arrives in the form of a former detective, Rough, who believes Manningham to be a thief and murderer. Aided by Bella, Rough proves Manningham's true identity and finally Bella achieves a few moments of sweet revenge for the suffering inflicted on her.