It is quite clear from the moment she is introduced that she likes Gregory because she sees him as a kindred spirit: manipulative to the extreme. She is of the working class, she is nasty and she is keenly ambitious, very much desiring of getting out of her current status and possibly becoming the second Mrs Gregory Anton. The part of Nancy Oliver in Gaslight is entirely removed from Miss Price. And she had also been beautiful, with light brown hair and large eyes, and a lovely mouth.Īnd she had not been afraid to play very different roles. But when I watched Gaslight, I realised that she had had an entire career before she played either Miss Price or Jessica Fletcher. Like many, I grew up watching her in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Murder, She Wrote. For me, Angela Lansbury was like my gran: clever, witty and possessing of a lovely softness and twinkling eyes. But what Angela Lansbury shows, is that she is one of the greatest actresses of her generation. Her character is probably as unlikable as Charles Boyer’s, and almost as destructive, because she is complicit in his abuse of his wife. But I think that Angela Lansbury’s performance as the conniving, disrespectful and openly sexually mature young maid, who treats the lady of the house disparagingly and flirts with her husband in front of her, is my favourite performance of the film. It is still my favourite Charles Boyer role, and I think that Ingrid Bergman really shows her capacity for exhaustive emotional depth in her portrayal of the beleaguered woman, desperate to not succumb to insanity. When I first watched Gaslight (1944), I was blown away by the standard of the performances overall.
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