From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
Subject: Re: Dorion Grey??
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:58:19 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group

In article <1993Jan20.222602.26668@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh2j@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Im a Joker Im a Smoker Im a Midnight Toker) writes:
>In article <alix.727554541@vincent2.iastate.edu> alix@iastate.edu (L.A. Melloy) writes:
>>In <C140Kz.Is1@imag.fr> francou@imag.fr (Laurent FRANCOU) writes:
>>
>>>In article <1993Jan18.200622@usho21.hou281.chevron.com>, hhtra@usho21.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock) writes:
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>>>|> 
>>>|>  There are several movies with this name:
>>>|> 
>>>|>       DORIAN GRAY
>>>|>       THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
>>>|>       THE SECRET OF DORIAN GRAY
>>>|>       THE SINS OF DORIAN GRAY
>>>|>      
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>>
>>>_The picture of Dorian Gray_ is a famous book of Oscar wilde. Dorian Gray is
>>>the hero (not an actor).
>> ^^^^^^^^
>>
>>ACH! Hero?!?!?  Dorian Gray, for those of you who know NOTHING about the book,
>>is NOT a hero (nothing redeeming about him).  Please, call him the main
>>character, or the protagonist if you MUST, but _NOT_ the hero.
>>
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>Agreed, Dorian Gray is one nasty fellow.....see the original "Picture of
>Dorian Gray" with Angela Lansbury (attractive back then.....fine acting
>netted her an AA nomination (or did she win?))

Disregarding the obvious fact that Angela Lansbury is an extremely
attractive woman today, I was doing a search of Cinemania for "Dorian
Grey" "Dorian Gray" and came up with this intriguing reference --
Delphine Seyrig in DORIAN GREY IM SPIEGEL DER BOULEVARDPRESSE (DORIAN
GRAY IN THE MIRROR OF THE POPULAR PRESS). Since I have been intrigued
by Seyrig ever since L'ANEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD (LAST YEAR AT
MARIENBAD), I would like to know a little more about this Dorian Grey
title.

Among the interesting things uncovered in the search was a reference to
a 1915 Russian adaptation of DORIAN GRAY by Vsevolod Mayerhold, the
great theater director. I wonder if a print survives.

There's also in Herbert Lom's filmography DAS BILDNIS DES DORIAN GRAY
(1970). This is the actor, of course, who played Chief Inspector
Dreyfus, Inspector Clouseau's boss in the Pink Panther series.

As for the 1945 DORIAN GRAY, I note that Lansbury's real-life mother,
Moyna MacGill, played the Duchess. Harry Stradling's cinematography won
an Oscar. Matlin says:  "Several color inserts throughout the film ...
though not in some TV prints." Besides Lansbury's nomination, Cedric
Hardwicke and Hans Peter were nominated for Art Direction, Edwin B.
Willis, Hugh Hunt, and John Bonar for Interior Decoration.

One more thing turned up in the search of Cinemania: an actor named
Dorian Gray in a Stewart Granger war flick, COMMANDO (Italy, 1964), in
a spy spoof DESTINATION FURY (France, 1961) with Eddie Constantine, in
LOVE AND LARCENY (Italy, 1963) with Vittoria Gassman, in NIGHTS OF
CABIRIA (Italy, 1957), directed by Fellini and starring Giullietta
Masina, THE OUTCRY (IL GRIDO) (Italy, 1957), directed by Antonioni and
starring Steve Cochran. Here is an intriguing hint of a decaying film
career. Anyone know any details?

-- 
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
	"Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
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