The Picture of Dorian Gray

Secretly degenerate Dorian (Hurd Hatfield) explains about the cat and would-be protege Sybil (Angela Lansbury) makes a choice that will disappoint him, in writer-director Albert Lewin's The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945, from the Oscar Wilde story.

Still from the opening scene, Lord Henry (George Sanders) dropping in on painter Basil (Lowell Gilmore) and his handsome model (Hurd Hatfield, title character), young Gladys (Carol Diane Keppler) inspiring a fateful wish and the first color insert, in The Picture Of Dorian Gray, 1945.

The big reveal (technically a "spoiler") in writer-director Albert Lewin's treatment of Oscar Wilde's famous story, Dorian (Hurd Hatfield) shows artist Basil (Lowell Gilmore) the degeneration of his painting, George Sanders narrating, in The Picture Of Dorian Gray, 1945.

Opening sequence and the introductory narration from Lord Henry (George Sanders), the de facto voice of author Oscar Wilde, in director Albert Lewin's The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945, starring Hurd Hatfield.

London, 1886, Dorian discovers entertainer Sibyl Vane (Hurd Hatfield and Angela Lansbury, who became lifelong friends), performing "Goodbye Little Yellow Bird," at The Two Turtles in The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945, from the Oscar Wilde novel.

A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) starring Hurd Hatfield.