Dorian Gray
Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell. From TMDB
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60 of 188 · most liked firstIvan Albright, one of most interesting artists you probably never heard of, was born today in 1897. Albright developed a detailed, almost hallucinatory realist style evident in arguably his best-known work, a portrait of the title character featured in 1945 Hollywood film The Picture of Dorian Gray
neutral · AI labelView post →Picture of Dorian Gray (1943-44) by Ivan Albright from the novel by The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde & used in the 1945 film. Albright was selected for his gorey detail style and did not disappointment. Exhibit from the Art Institute of Chicago. #photography #art #horrorsky #painting
neutral · AI labelView post →I will say, because I do not like Tom Cruise, those candid photos circulating recently show that he is not Dorian Gray so much as movie CGI people are really good at subtle de-aging of a plastic surgeried face, as are photo touch up people.
neutral · AI labelView post →I know now who this looks like. Although used in the 1945 movie; The Picture of Dorian Gray, I’m sure it was foretelling what tormented pile of puss was going to be elected TWICE to the highest office in our country. Have we had enough yet? If some resign due to allegations; why not others?
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes. Picture of Dorian Gray was a good movie, and even a better book.
positive · AI labelView post →Dorian Gray. I just finished the book by Oscar Wilde and wanted to try my own hand at depicting Dorian Gray. Here is my interpretation ... Let's hope it doesn't alter for the worst! graphite pencil on A4 paper
neutral · AI labelView post →Saturday movie: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976) ****½
positive · AI labelView post →#ACenturyOfCinema, movie 88: 1945 THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
neutral · AI labelView post →Solid Halloween Last 4. An under-appreciated younger Peter Lorre classic, Phantom, Faust, Dorian Gray and Paul Williams in one rock opera film, the beginnings of Universal Monsters and Dracula-Mania, and the uncut Evil Dead #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky 📽️🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW MOVIE REVIEW! 🎬🍿🎞️ Forever young. Forever corrupt. MGM’s haunting THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945), starring Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders & an Oscar-nominated Angela Lansbury. 🎨 Plus, I share my delicious encounter with Dorian himself! 😁 My #MovieReview: 👉 youtu.be/Ikt7Gh2HHL4 #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →watching the Deadwood movie, half of this cast is acting as Pictures of Dorian Gray for the other half
neutral · AI labelView post →I think it's worth reminding people where the general left wing FOSS conscious was before AI. Every week we'd see an article that was the antithesis of ownership, from celebrating the end of Disney copyright to loopholes in trademarks and the like, it was the heart of a lot of content. There is a [fantastic foreword](https://mason.gmu.edu/~rnanian/Wilde-Preface.html) foreword in *The Picture of Dorian Gray* from Oscar Wilde about art for art's sake that I think about a lot, which really…
neutral · AI labelView post →Bringing #Caturday to a close with a mysterious portrait of Noel Coward featuring a statuette of Bast in the shadows. Photograph by Edward Steichen, 1932. (reminiscent of the cat statue in the 1945 film version of the 'Picture of Dorian Gray' starring Hurd Hatfield)
neutral · AI labelView post →The greatest novel of all time for me is The Picture of Dorian Gray. It makes sense that the film is exactly to my taste.
positive · AI labelView post →"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." -Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
neutral · AI labelView post →To my mind, too few people know of Chicago-based painter Ivan Albright, who was born on this day in 1897 (along with identical twin brother Malvin) and who contributed the absolutely bonkers, deliriously hyperrealist portrait of Dorian Gray for Hollywood film version of Oscar Wilde's novel
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey, hey, hey! My brilliant colleague, Nayoung Bishoff, just published an article on #BTS and *The Picture of Dorian Gray* in Literature/Film Quarterly. You should check it out! #ARMY @nayoungbishoff.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 2. Experimental Film by Gemma Files 3. Tell Me I'm Worthless by Allison Rumfitt -- 4. Link to my art w/ prints & originals for sale stinasdemons.bigcartel.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Donna Reed was an up-and-coming actress who had recently starred in The Picture Of Dorian Gray. She was under contract at MGM at the time but after some studio negotiations, MGM agreed to loan her to Capra for his film. 14/47
neutral · AI labelView post →#booksky Reading: The Picture of Dorian Gray C1 - Laying down the characters I see. I've seen clips of the movie before, so I roughly know where things are going.
neutral · AI labelView post →Film pitch: "The Pictures Of Ernie Hudson" but unlike Dorian Gray it's a feel good movie about a guy who puts in the work and becomes universally adored even by time itself, and The Pictures are his movies which also age like fine wine
neutral · AI labelView post →Hurd Hatfield-'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1945). #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Oscar Wilde (with scenes from the Ulrike Ottinger film "Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press", inspired by Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →He could star in the movie The Picture of Dorian Gray. My mom always said that the bad on the inside will always show on the outside. Totally convinced she was right.
neutral · AI labelView post →But the 1945 Dorian Gray film is amazing at any rate! #AllCreaturesPBS
positive · AI labelView post →Th oil painting made for the 1945 film of The Picture of Dorian Gray, now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
neutral · AI labelView post →Picture of Dorian Gray (1973) If you are a fan of 1970s horror or the Dark Shadows aesthetic, this film is often recommended as a "must-watch" curiosity, even if liberties are taken with Wilde's original story. #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #horrorjunkie #TheLastDriveIn
neutral · AI labelView post →#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched — Another gowns by Orry-Kelly movie. — Not Orry-Kelly, more an orrecchiette movie. Una pittura di Dorian Gray. — Is recognition of detectivehood a step towards sheepishly accepting ovine personhood? — "Inspired by a true story" yes, there is no plastering in this.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m reading Dorian Gray for the first time! Lord Henry’s little speeches take me back to every pretentious film school guy I ever had the misfortune of speaking to. I’d strangle him but then I’d have to touch him
neutral · AI labelView post →I just found out the picture of Dorian Gray from the 1945 film is hanging in the Art Institute of Chicago because they went off so hard.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Phaaaaaaaaantom of the Paradise is here inside…The Portrait of Dorian Gray? Sure, why not? Paul Williams stars and composes the most bag of cocainey movie yet in the bag of cocaine season. With our very special guest star, Amy Spalding! www.muppeturgy.com/episodes/pha...
neutral · AI labelView post →“How did it work out for Faust? Midas? Anyone who ever got a golden apple? Dorian Gray? Keanu Reeves in that movie with Al Pacino?”
neutral · AI labelView post →First thing that comes to mind is: James Whale's The Picture of Dorian Gray. I once had a uni assignment to write a pitch for a horror movie to occur in any period of Hollywood history and that was my pick.
neutral · AI labelView post →Maybe it’s just a generational thing, but as a kid I knew Captain Nemo not only from the Disney movie but also from the TV movie about the character, I knew Allan Quatermain from the Richard Chamberlain film… Honestly, I think the only one I didn’t know until college was Dorian Gray!
neutral · AI labelView post →In memory of the incredible Donna Reed, Oscar-winning & Emmy-nominated classic film, television, and radio actress, on her 105th birthday, acclaimed for her roles in SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, FROM HERE OT ETERNITY, and THE DONNA REED SHOW, and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →Robert Eggers should do a "Picture Of Dorian Gray" movie with R Pat as Dorian and Dafoe as his ancient corrupt reflection in the portrait. The Portrait would work to push Dorian farther and farther on the road to damnation
neutral · AI labelView post →The Substance I watched yesterday. A modern Dorian Gray with deep psychological contemplation. They had a fantastic horror film for 3/4s of the movie, then it flew off the rails and exploded into bizarre camp. I certainly would've rewritten the ending to be much darker and horrific.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945, VOD, #film) An engrossing and lovely adapt. of Oscar Wilde's novel of a rich naif who surrounds himself with shitheads, becomes one himself, and transfers it all to a sin-eating portrait. Wiki helps un-Hayes some baffling parts. h/t: @cyberphoenix001.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →I actually completed my card this year! It meants starting several series without finishing them towards the end, which I generally try not to do, but it was fun to branch out my reading a bit. I wasn't planning to complete it necessarily, but I realized I only needed 7 more squares by the time January rolled around so I pushed myself to plan my reading around it. ::: spoiler Books Read 1A: One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence 1B: Hamlet by William Shakespeare 1C: Provenance by Ann Leckie 1D: A…
neutral · AI labelView post →One time I was watching a Dorian Gray movie that came out recently with my mum (she's an English teacher, she has read Wilde) and mid movie my mum asked me "but... was the painter gay in the book as well?". And I thought that was funny how clueless she was, because the book never said he was gay, but it was strongly implied.
neutral · AI labelView post →Eventually somebody will make a movie about how Red Bull created a Dorian Gray car that just sucks the ability of its driver and feeds it directly to Max, and it will be generally accepted as a true fact.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Picture of Dorian Gray. The movie version is all right, but it's one of those old movies that feels very very old.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Sins of Dorian Gray (TV Movie 1983) stars Belinda Bauer in a female spin on Oscar Wilde's most famous creation. Here she remains young while her screen test ages. Greta Garbo offered to come out of retirement to star in Albert Lewin's 1945 adaptation, but the Hays Code made that impossible.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dreamed a different fourth season of Blackadder, whose chronology was as laissez-faire as the earlier ones. The characters were Oxbridge students in the early C20, with scripts satirising everything from The Picture of Dorian Gray to silent film to Brideshead Revisited.
neutral · AI labelView post →“It’s a fun pretty queer movie” yeah it’s pretty! All of Fennel’s movies are! But take away the pretty and you get a bare bones “centrist” version of stories like Talented Mr Ripley or Dorian Gray or the like. (Also the queerness has no “bite” to it thematically here)
neutral · AI labelView post →The portrait of Dorian Gray in the beginning of the film was painted by Henrique Medina. It was originally sold at an MGM auction in 1970 when the contents of the studio were sold. It was then sold at auction in 1997 for $17,500 and in 2015, it was sold for $149k #TCMParty #ThePictureofDorianGray
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie version of The Picture Of Dorian Gray made in 1945 has always stayed with me. The whole movie is in crisp black and white, but when they reveal the portrait that shows all the dissipation and evil, it switches to shocking color. When I look at trump, I can't help but recall that portrait.
positive · AI labelView post →My first DORIAN GRAY movie was the far less subtle Ben Barnes adaptation.
neutral · AI labelView post →aside from Dracula and Jekyll & Hyde Dan Curtis had 3 other TV movie adaptations of classic horror literature: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973), Turn of the Screw (1974), Frankenstein (1974) which seems to be his mammoth outing going for 3 hours across 2-parts
neutral · AI labelView post →Almost wasn’t sure if this was appropriate for the community, but some context might help if you’re trying to promote your show: The Sock ‘N’ Buskin theatre company presents The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Carleton University Kailash Mital Theatre March 20-23 7:30-10:00pm. Tickets are on sale now at https://socknbuskin.com/.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ivan Albright’s “portrait” of Dorian Gray for the 1944 film
neutral · AI labelView post →From the 103rd floor of Sears Tower straight to the scariest portraits in town. I went from Van Gogh's intense 1887 self-portrait right into Ivan Albright's rotting flesh "Picture of Dorian Gray" canvas from the film. @artinstitutechi.bsky.social #Chicago #VanGogh #DorianGray #ArtHistory #museums
neutral · AI labelView post →sentient body of water: Amelia Pond. maps.app.goo.gl/fMEXAHj8MwqL... Ruin a movie by removing the supporting cast's eyes: The Picture of Dorian Gray.
neutral · AI labelView post →Who are some of your hypothetical members of The Lineage in literature? Tadzio (possibly indirectly via the film?), Dorian Gray, Byron's heroes, Hamlet?
neutral · AI labelView post →I really like this, though Sanders is way too old and jowly for the part. Lewin should have cast Hurd Hatfield, he'd have knocked it out the park in Dorian Gray mode. But it's a wonderfully sour, witty, characterful film. The Technicolor painting doesn't really connect, but I love the nod to Manet
positive · AI labelView post →A favorite of mine is The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945. With a very young Angela (her 3rd movie) & George Sanders. Though a subtle portrayal of Dorian’s salacious immoral activities by today’s standards, it’s a pretty effective movie. Neat use of color in a B&W film for the disturbing painting.
positive · AI labelView post →2 of my #40Before40 - A Thread! 🧵🧵 Visit Highgate Cemetery 🪦🌿 A lifelong ambition, mostly because film & TV taught me that if anything gothic is happening in London, it’s probably here. Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Dracula, From Hell, Tales from the Crypt… etc etc, you get the misty idea
neutral · AI labelView post →Since it’s almost #Oscars time, here’s photo of cinematographer Harry Stradling with his #AcademyAward for Best B&W photography in Albert Lewin’s PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY (1945) Source: FILM AND RADIO GUIDE XII, no. 9 (June 1946) archive.org/details/film...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed." — Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
neutral · AI labelView post →I just rewatched the movie last night The Portrait of Dorian Gray. All I can say, is her face is showing the cruelty more every day...
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