The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1945 American supernatural horror-drama film based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel of the same name. Released in June 1945 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film was directed by Albert Lewin, and stars George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton and Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray. Shot primarily in black-and-white, the film features four colour inserts in three-strip Technicolor of Dorian's portrait; these are a special effect, the first two inserts picturing a youthful Dorian and the second two a degenerate one.
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Albright's painting of Dorian Gray, from the 1945 film
Image: Hurd Hatfield in The Picture of Dorian Gray trailer
Image: Angela Lansbury in The Picture of Dorian Gray trailer
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The novel-length version was published in April 1891.
The story was first published in 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
Plaque commemorating the dinner between Wilde, Doyle and the publisher on 30 August 1889 at 1 Portland Place, Regent Street, London
Original manuscript of one of the 1891 novel's new chapters; here labeled chapter 4, it would end up as chapter 5
A 19th-century London opium den (based on fictional accounts of the day)