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Ingrid Bergman, Sweden's second gifted gift to Hollywood, won the award for best cinema actress of 1944 for her performance in Gaslight. The year's best picture, Going My Way, drew Oscars for Best Actor Bing Crosby, double-threat star of radio and cinema (see RADIO), for Barry Fitzgerald as best supporting actor, and twice-Oscared Leo McCarey, for best directing and authoring the best original story. Lauding McCarey for helping "a broken-down crooner ... to win," Actor Crosby quipped: "Now if he'd find me a horse to win the Kentucky Derby, it would...
...Franz) who is suspected of committing them. But from the outset he is made to seem so guilty that you never for a second doubt his innocence. Hence there is little suspense. With all the murders occurring off stage, there is even less excitement. And for all the flaring gaslight, there is no disturbing atmosphere. The play's long suit, indeed, is talk. But the orating of the workers, the gabbling of an old crone, the fancy spouting of the stranger are seldom pertinent and never provocative...
...many of these period pieces are in technicolor, with gala balls and sparkling lights. "Experiment Perlious emphasizes plush and bric-a-brac furnishings of the claustrophobic New York houses that graced the day and are in many cases still standing; in this respect it excels its cinematic model, "Gaslight...
That Hody Lamarr is the most beautiful woman in the world is a debatable point; she certainly is not the actress Ingrid Bergman was in the same part. Charles Boyer tried to drive Ingrid mad in "Gaslight" to gain her wealth. Similarly accented Paul Lukas tries to pull the same stunt in "Experiment Perilous," but with no apparent motive. Almost as a trick ending, it develops that a page has been substituted in this carbon copy: Lukas is mentally unsound, which doesn't really change much...
Like so many pictures, "Experiment Perilous" goes off the deep end in its last few hundred feet: hero George Brent (it was Joseph Cotton in MGM's "Gaslight) walks into a cloud-filled sky through a field of daisies with pretty Hedy coming too. This little anti-climax is preceded by a good deal of suspense, but it was better the first time...