Word: gaslight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it will dump on the TV market for the first time about 770 feature films and 900 shorts, all produced before 1949. Among the features-some of the nation's most popular movies in the past three decades -are Easter Parade, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Gaslight, National Velvet, The Great Ziegfeld, Boys Town, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Wizard of Oz, Big House, Grand Hotel, San Francisco, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Good Earth, Little Women, The Three Musketeers, David Copperfield, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities...
...Langhorne Gibson, 83, the "Original Gibson Girl," widow of Artist Charles Dana Gibson, second of the "five beautiful Langhorne sisters of Virginia" (including Britain's Lady Astor); in Greenwood. Va. As pictured by her husband, with her sweetly haughty expression, hourglass figure and stylish pompadour, she became the gaslight era's symbol of genteel femininity, influenced the dress, manners and flirtations of a generation of U.S. girls...
...melodramatic potboiler: mix two engaging scoundrels (Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons) with a brace of murders, add a pinch of blackmail, a generous helping of blue London fog, some bilious green Edwardian interiors, the clop-clop of hansom cabs, and allow to simmer for 90 minutes over a gaslight flame...
Dial M is starred with fine scenes and good performances. Though played as contemporary melodrama, it somehow manages to reflect the gaslight magic of turn-of-the-century London. Murder is the plot, but everyone is extremely gentlemanly about the crime, from the Holmesian police inspector (John Williams) down to the caddish assassin (Anthony Dawson). The crime is conceived by quick-witted Ray Milland, who, losing his wife's love, decides to murder her for her money rather than wait for her to leave him. A solicitous sort who doesn't want to hurt anyone unnecessarily, Milland arranges...
...look, he reported to the House Appropriations Committee that the dingy stone museum needs a million-dollar spring cleaning. All the exhibits of man's skill, from the stone age to the jet plane, said he, are crammed into crowded displays that belong to the "horse & buggy and gaslight...