Born on this day – George Cukor:

George Cukor

Director

Producer

July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983

Credits:

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); A Bill of Divorcement (1932); A Double Life (1947); A Life of Her Own (1950); A Star Is Born (1954); A Star Is Born: Special Features (2010); A Woman of Substance: Katharine Hepburn Remembered (2003); A Woman's Face (1941); Adam's Rib (1949); AFI Life Achievement Award (1981); All Quiet on the Western Front (1930); American Masters (2000–2004); Anna Karina, souviens-toi (2017); Arena (2012–2016); Audrey Hepburn, le choix de l'élégance (2017); Bhowani Junction (1956); Biography (1996–2003); Born Yesterday (1950); Ça c'est l'amour (2003); Call Me Kate (2023); Camille (1936); Cinéastes de notre temps (1969); Cinema (1968); Cinéma cinémas (1982); David Copperfield (1935); Delta Kappa Alpha Silver Anniversary Banquet (1963); Den gudomliga: Greta Garbo 50 år (1955); Desire Me (1947); Dinner at Eight (1933); Edward, My Son (1949); Escape (1940); Étoiles et toiles (1983); Eyewitness to History (1962); Fascination: An Unauthorized Tribute to Marilyn Monroe (2011); Film '72 (1973–1981); Film Night (1970); Film Time (1955); Garbo (1969 / 2005); Gaslight (1944); George Cukor at the National Film Theatre (1981); Girls About Town (1931); Gone with the Wind (1939); Great Performances (1987); Grumpy (1930); Heller in Pink Tights (1960); Her Cardboard Lover (1942); Holiday (1938); Hollywood (1980); Hollywood Greats (1977–1978); Hollywood maudit (2021); Hollywood Rivals (2001–2002); Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987); Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1969); Hot Spell (1958); Hour Magazine (1981); I Met My Love Again (1938); I Think I Do (1997); I'll Be Seeing You (1944); It Should Happen to You (1954); Justine (1969); Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1993); Keeper of the Flame (1942); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Les Girls (1957); Let's Make Love (1960); Little Women (1933); Love Among the Ruins (1975); Love, Cecil (2017); Love, Marilyn (2012); Lust for Life (1956); Manhattan Melodrama (1934); Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001); Marilyn: Something's Got to Give (1990); MGM Parade (1956); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); My Fair Lady (1964); NET Festival (1970); No More Ladies (1935); On Location with Rich and Famous (1981); One Hour with You (1932); Our Betters (1933); Pat and Mike (1952); Reflections on 'Gaslight' (2003); Resistance and Ohm's Law (1943); Rich and Famous (1981); Rockabye (1932); Romeo and Juliet (1936); Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017); Sid & Judy (2019); Sinners in the Sun (1932); Social Security in Action (1958–1968); Something's Got to Give (1962); Song Without End (1960); Starring Katharine Hepburn (1981); Susan and God (1940); Sylvia Scarlett (1935); Talking Film (1978); Talking Pictures (2016); Tarnished Lady (1931); That's Entertainment, Part II (1976); The 22nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1965); The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965); The 40th Annual Academy Awards (1968); The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The Actress (1953); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938); The Animal Kingdom (1932); The Blue Bird (1976); The British Greats (1980); The Chapman Report (1962); The Corn Is Green (1979); The David Frost Show (1969–1971); The David Susskind Show (1960); The Dick Cavett Show (1972 / 1981); The Fairest Fair Lady (1964); The Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor (1978); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Making of 'My Fair Lady' (1995); The Marrying Kind (1952); The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1972–1976); The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951); The Philadelphia Story (1940); The Prisoner of Zenda (1937); The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland (2021); The River of Romance (1929); The RKO Years (1979); The Royal Family of Broadway (1930); The Stars Salute America's Greatest Movies (1977); The Tonight Show (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1962); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Virtuous Sin (1930); The Women (1939); This Is Your Life (1962); Travels with My Aunt (1972); Two-Faced Woman (1941); W.C. Fields: Straight Up (1986); What Price Hollywood? (1932); Wild Is the Wind (1957); Winged Victory (1944); Zaza (1938).

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.