[HPFGU-OTChatter] Gaslight (was SB Sanity & Gas Marks)

[Neil Ward]

Trina said:

_Gaslight_ is an old movie with Cary Grant (I think) & Ingrid Bergman (I'm
sure of her) in which Hubby Grant is trying to make Wifey  Bergman think she
is losing her mind for some diabolical reason or another.  I haven't
actually seen the whole thing, so details will  have to come from another,
more reliable, source.  So to "gaslight"  someone means to make him/her
think that sanity is slowly slipping  away.

I actually got that reference first time round and thought it was cool that
Americans used 'gaslight' in that context, but perhaps it was just Trina
being very cryptic <g>....

There have been several cinematic versions of Gaslight, the one above being
the best known, but, arguably, not the best.  It was Charles Boyer who
played opposite Bergman.

Neil

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