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Gaslight movie 1944 movie pictures1/18/2024 The film was based on a novel published in 1940. Esma Cannon as Gossiping Maid (uncredited).Phyllis Calvert as Fanny Hopwood/Fanny Hooper.This could be fatal but the sister says she would rather he die than be with Fanny. The sister again appears and demands to take him into her own care. In the final scene Somerford has been shot in the chest and Fanny and a physician are caring for him. Somerford appears and asks her to marry him. Somerford's sister comes and tells her Somerford wants to marry her but it must not happen as it will ruin his reputation. A letter reveals that Fanny was Seymore's daughter and also that he loved Somerford like a son. Somerford is trustee to Mr Seymore's will and delivers property shares to Fanny. Mr Seymore commits suicide rather than face disgrace.įanny leaves and goes back to home territory. She asks for a divorce to marry Manderstoke. Mr Seymore reveals to his wife that Fanny is his daughter. He is revealed as the lover of Mrs Seymore. One day a visitor Lord Manderstoke encounters her on the stair and recognises her as Hopwood's daughter. She is now calling him "father".īack at the huge Seymore house she returns to duties as a maid. He is a young friend of the father, who then has to return to London without her. She looks out of the window and Harry is talking business with her father. They chat.īack in the mansion where they stay the dog appears at her door. In the idyllic countryside during the holiday she is painting by the lake when a dog spoils her picture. Her father takes her on holiday and gets to know her and wants to tell the world that she is his daughter. She is introduced to other servants as Mrs Heaviside's niece and given the name Fanny Hooper. The husband Clive Seymore reveals he is her true father and he paid William Hopwood to look after her (it is implied he was a client). She is sent to work for the Heaviside/Seymore family far from her home. Only when her father is killed in a fight with Lord Manderstoke, is it revealed to her at the inquest that her father ran a brothel. It is clearer that her father owns and runs the nearby nightclub and brothel and has a secret door in his house that links down to it, But he has no desire for his daughter to be involved in any way with the business. We jump to her birthday in 1880, Fanny has finished at boarding school and returns to London. Her mother and father decide to send her away to boarding school. Back at home she is having a birthday party by her father ( John Laurie). She is given a coin and then pulled out by Joe, her father's handyman. They wander down to a basement, which appears to be a brothel and nightclub (Hopwood Shades). Fanny is only nine years old and is in the street with her young friend. Stewart Granger later said he "didn't like" the film because of its "drippy characters" but thought "Asquith was much the best of those directors I worked with at Gainsborough." Plot Its US release was delayed for its breaking the Hays Purity Code and 17 minutes were removed. It was the second of its famous period-set " Gainsborough melodramas", following The Man in Grey (1943). Fanny by Gaslight (US title – Man of Evil) is a 1944 British drama film, directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Gainsborough Pictures, set in the 1870s and adapted from a 1940 novel by Michael Sadleir (also adapted as a 1981 TV serial).
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