Directed by Albert Lewin • 1945 • United States
Starring George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
Oscar Wilde’s gothic classic receives an appropriately stylish and sophisticated rendition in the rare Hollywood adaptation to compare favorably with its source material. When Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield), a handsome young Victorian gentleman obsessed with the fleeting transience of his own beauty, becomes disturbed by a portrait that seems to capture too much of his soul, he makes a dark pact: he will remain forever young, while the age, disease, and decay that should affect his body ravage the painting. Over the years, Gray revels in every imaginable pleasure and experience—altruistic, decadent, or evil—while somehow maintaining his youthful beauty. Meanwhile, the painting, locked away in a dark room, betrays the ugly truth of his increasingly corrupt soul.
Directed by Stanley Donen • 1958 • United Kingdom
Starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker
More than a decade after their iconic pairing in Alfred Hitchcock’s NOTORIOUS, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman were reunited onscreen for this supremely elegant romantic comedy. He is the suave Amer...
Directed by Frank Capra • 1944 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Cary Grant stars as the one sane member of a charmingly lunatic family in Frank Capra’s classic comedy. When Mortimer Brewster (Grant) brings his new bride to meet his two kindly aunts, he discover...
Directed by Frank Capra • 1934 • United States
Starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (Clark...
