GASLIGHT

Gaslight

Gaslight is a 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play, Gas Light, performed as Angel Street on Broadway in 1941. It was the second version to be filmed; the first, released in the United Kingdom, had been made a mere four years earlier. This 1944 version of the story was directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her screen debut. It had a larger scale and budget than the earlier film, and lends a different feel to the material.

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Gas Light

Gas Light is a 1938 play by the British dramatist Patrick Hamilton. The play gave rise to the term gaslighting with the meaning "a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented to the victim with the intent of making him/her doubt his/her own memory and perception". Although it was never explicitly confirmed, many critics and scholars see the play and its adaptations as subtle retellings of the Bluebeard folk tale.

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gaslight

Noun

  1. The light produced by burning piped illuminating gas.
  2. A lamp which operates by burning gas.

Verb

  1. To manipulate someone psychologically such that they question their own sanity.


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