Lansbury was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Considered by many to be the best version, although a love interest not found in the novel appears: Basil Hallward's niece played by
Donna Reed. The film won the
Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and is remarkable for its crisp, deep-focus
black-and-white photography, and a handful of
Technicolor inserts of the portrait, which exists in two versions: one representing Basil Hallward's original effort, painted by
Henrique Medina,[12] and the corrupted portrait, by noted painter of macabre and grotesque subjects
Ivan Albright. The picture took Albright a year to finish and currently hangs at the
Art Institute of Chicago.
Dorian Gray, also known as Il dio chiamato Dorian, The Evils of Dorian Gray or The Secret of Dorian Gray (1970, Italian-German-British)[13]
Directed by
Massimo Dallamano; screenplay by Marcello Coscia, Massimo Dallamano and Günter Ebert; produced by Harry Alan Towers, Sam Arkoff [14]
Get Smart: Age Before Duty, Season 5, Episode 11, original airdate December 5, 1969[21]
In this episode of Get Smart, a KAOS scientist invents a gray paint that, when used to
re-touch photographs of CONTROL agents so as to make them appear old, causes the agent himself to age and die. The paint is given the name Dorian Gray.
This film, which was presented as an entry in ABC's series The Movie of the Week, was produced by
Dan Curtis, who was previously the creator/producer of the ABC afternoon daytime Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, which featured a storyline clearly inspired by Wilde's novel, in which a portrait of
Quentin Collins aged grotesquely, while Collins himself remained youthful. Made virtually immortal by the portrait, Collins, a man born in 1870, turned up at his ancestral home 100 years later using the pseudonym Grant Douglas, the initials of which (though reversed, perhaps so as to avoid being too obvious) may have been a nod to the character of Dorian Gray.
An ambassador uses women as receptables for his negative emotions which kills them including almost Deanna Troi; however she is saved while he is overwhelmed by emotions and dies of Old age.
Directed by David Rosenbaum; screenplay by David Rosenbaum
Starring
Josh Duhamel as Dorian Gray; Rainer Judd as Basil Ward; Branden Waugh as Harry Wotton (Lord Wotton is referred to as both Harry and Henry in the novel); Darby Stanchfield as Sibyl Vane; Brian Durkin as James Vane
An audio adaptation of the novel starring
Alexander Vlahos and dramatised by
David Llewellyn and directed by
Scott Handcock was released by
Big Finish Productions in 2013.[32] as a prequel to Big Finish's audio drama series The Confessions of Dorian Gray, which also starred Vlahos in the title role.
Shadows at the Door: The Podcast released a three-episode production in 2022, adapted by Mark Nixon.[33]
Literature
Family Portrait (also published as Picture of Evil, 1985) is a horror novel by
Graham Masterton in which he appropriates Wilde's aging portrait to a whole family.
Mirror, Mirror (1992), a horror novel by DE Athkins that updates the setting to a high school and makes the protagonist a female. After being befriended by a mysterious new student who gives her a mirror as a birthday present, Dore finds her reflection becoming more and more ugly, even as she appears lovelier, coinciding with her increasingly nasty personality.
Dorian: A Sequel to the Picture of Dorian Gray(1997) is a novel written by
Jeremy Reed; in this novel, Dorian has survived the destruction of the portrait and suffers the consequences as a visibly old and ugly man.[34]
"The Wedding Present", a short story in the anthology Smoke and Mirrors (1998) by
Neil Gaiman re-imagines the story from the perspective of a modern newlywed wife. Characters in "The Wedding Present" make several references to the similarities between their situation and the original novel.
Dorian, an Imitation (2002) is a modern take of the original book, written by
Will Self. It updates the original by placing events in June 1981, a time according to Self when "Britain was in the process of burning most of its remaining illusions."[35]
The Detritus of Dorian Gray is the name of a 2003 book of poems written by
Kevin Max, which includes an entry also titled The Detritus of Dorian Gray.
A Portrait of Dorian Gray (2005) is the fashion designer and photographer Karl Lagerfeld's rendition of the novel in photography. The models Larry Scott and Eva Herzigova star as Mr. and Mrs. Dorian Gray.
Creatures of Will and Temper (2017) by
Molly Tanzer is a gender-swapped spin on the story. In the book's preamble, Tanzer states her intention to reimagine the novel's central quest for hedonism without moral judgment, writing that "if [the original] truly were amoral, as Wilde maintains, Dorian's excesses would not corrupt his perfect painted image." Her version notably omits the key role of the eponymous portrait.
A Hungarian musical based on the novel was composed by
Mátyás Várkonyi, while Gunar Braunke and János Ács wrote its libretto.[38] It premiered in Rockszínház in 1990.[39] The English version of the musical (translated by Duncan Shiels)[40] premiered in London in 1995.[citation needed] The German-language version of Dorian Gray (
Michael Kunze, Gunar Braunke[40]) toured in Germany for years, and also in the Netherlands, France and Switzerland.
In 2000, Dorian, a musical with book, music & lyrics by Richard Gleaves, premiered at the
Goodspeed Opera House starring Tom Stuart and
Sutton Foster (as the invented character of Sister Claire)[41]
The Canadian playwright
Ted Dykstra and lyricist Steven Mayoff wrote a musical Dorian.[42] The musical premiered in 2002 and is set in the late 1900s, with the character of Dorian transformed from a member of the idle rich to an aspiring young model.
In 2006, a Czech musical based on the novel premiered in Prague.
A musical adaptation of the book by young theatre company Kangaroo Court ran at the
Tabard Theatre,
Chiswick in 2008. The updated version centres on celebrity obsession and excesses.
Dorian the Remarkable Mister Gray: A Portrait in Music, is a stage musical with music, lyrics, and book by Randy Bowser. The work had its premiere at Pentacle Theatre in Salem, Oregon, in 2008. A Russian version is being produced in Moscow, at The Stas Namin Cente.[43][44]
In January 2009,
Dorian Gray was adapted and directed by Linnie Reedman, with music by Joe Evans. Produced by Ruby In The Dust, the show returned to the
Leicester Square Theatre on 26 June 2009, and again re-staged in March 2010 under the title of The Extraordinary Cabaret of Dorian Gray.[45][46]
In February 2013,
Dorian Gray was adapted into a musical by Callum Nicholls, a postgraduate composer at
Cardiff University School of Music,[49] and was performed by the school's students in Cardiff University Concert Hall.[50]
In 2016, CJeS Culture staged a Korean musical adaptation, scripted by Cho Yong-shin and composed by Kim Moon-jeong, with
Kim Junsu playing the titular role.[51]
In 2007, Australian playwrights Greg Eldridge and Liam Suckling adapted the novel into a three-act play. This premiered in May 2008 and returned as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in October 2008.
In January 2010,
Dorian Gray was adapted by Daniel Mitura and directed by Henning Hegland. Music by
Michael Nyman. The show premiered at the
Kirk Theatre on 42nd Street in New York.
Rhodes, Gary Don (2006) [1997]. Lugosi. His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
ISBN978-0-78640257-1.
Rhodes, Gary D.; Kaffenberger, Bill (2022). Becoming Dracula - The Early Years of Bela Lugosi (Kindle ed.). BearManor Media.
Lansbury was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Considered by many to be the best version, although a love interest not found in the novel appears: Basil Hallward's niece played by
Donna Reed. The film won the
Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and is remarkable for its crisp, deep-focus
black-and-white photography, and a handful of
Technicolor inserts of the portrait, which exists in two versions: one representing Basil Hallward's original effort, painted by
Henrique Medina,[12] and the corrupted portrait, by noted painter of macabre and grotesque subjects
Ivan Albright. The picture took Albright a year to finish and currently hangs at the
Art Institute of Chicago.
Dorian Gray, also known as Il dio chiamato Dorian, The Evils of Dorian Gray or The Secret of Dorian Gray (1970, Italian-German-British)[13]
Directed by
Massimo Dallamano; screenplay by Marcello Coscia, Massimo Dallamano and Günter Ebert; produced by Harry Alan Towers, Sam Arkoff [14]
Get Smart: Age Before Duty, Season 5, Episode 11, original airdate December 5, 1969[21]
In this episode of Get Smart, a KAOS scientist invents a gray paint that, when used to
re-touch photographs of CONTROL agents so as to make them appear old, causes the agent himself to age and die. The paint is given the name Dorian Gray.
This film, which was presented as an entry in ABC's series The Movie of the Week, was produced by
Dan Curtis, who was previously the creator/producer of the ABC afternoon daytime Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, which featured a storyline clearly inspired by Wilde's novel, in which a portrait of
Quentin Collins aged grotesquely, while Collins himself remained youthful. Made virtually immortal by the portrait, Collins, a man born in 1870, turned up at his ancestral home 100 years later using the pseudonym Grant Douglas, the initials of which (though reversed, perhaps so as to avoid being too obvious) may have been a nod to the character of Dorian Gray.
An ambassador uses women as receptables for his negative emotions which kills them including almost Deanna Troi; however she is saved while he is overwhelmed by emotions and dies of Old age.
Directed by David Rosenbaum; screenplay by David Rosenbaum
Starring
Josh Duhamel as Dorian Gray; Rainer Judd as Basil Ward; Branden Waugh as Harry Wotton (Lord Wotton is referred to as both Harry and Henry in the novel); Darby Stanchfield as Sibyl Vane; Brian Durkin as James Vane
An audio adaptation of the novel starring
Alexander Vlahos and dramatised by
David Llewellyn and directed by
Scott Handcock was released by
Big Finish Productions in 2013.[32] as a prequel to Big Finish's audio drama series The Confessions of Dorian Gray, which also starred Vlahos in the title role.
Shadows at the Door: The Podcast released a three-episode production in 2022, adapted by Mark Nixon.[33]
Literature
Family Portrait (also published as Picture of Evil, 1985) is a horror novel by
Graham Masterton in which he appropriates Wilde's aging portrait to a whole family.
Mirror, Mirror (1992), a horror novel by DE Athkins that updates the setting to a high school and makes the protagonist a female. After being befriended by a mysterious new student who gives her a mirror as a birthday present, Dore finds her reflection becoming more and more ugly, even as she appears lovelier, coinciding with her increasingly nasty personality.
Dorian: A Sequel to the Picture of Dorian Gray(1997) is a novel written by
Jeremy Reed; in this novel, Dorian has survived the destruction of the portrait and suffers the consequences as a visibly old and ugly man.[34]
"The Wedding Present", a short story in the anthology Smoke and Mirrors (1998) by
Neil Gaiman re-imagines the story from the perspective of a modern newlywed wife. Characters in "The Wedding Present" make several references to the similarities between their situation and the original novel.
Dorian, an Imitation (2002) is a modern take of the original book, written by
Will Self. It updates the original by placing events in June 1981, a time according to Self when "Britain was in the process of burning most of its remaining illusions."[35]
The Detritus of Dorian Gray is the name of a 2003 book of poems written by
Kevin Max, which includes an entry also titled The Detritus of Dorian Gray.
A Portrait of Dorian Gray (2005) is the fashion designer and photographer Karl Lagerfeld's rendition of the novel in photography. The models Larry Scott and Eva Herzigova star as Mr. and Mrs. Dorian Gray.
Creatures of Will and Temper (2017) by
Molly Tanzer is a gender-swapped spin on the story. In the book's preamble, Tanzer states her intention to reimagine the novel's central quest for hedonism without moral judgment, writing that "if [the original] truly were amoral, as Wilde maintains, Dorian's excesses would not corrupt his perfect painted image." Her version notably omits the key role of the eponymous portrait.
A Hungarian musical based on the novel was composed by
Mátyás Várkonyi, while Gunar Braunke and János Ács wrote its libretto.[38] It premiered in Rockszínház in 1990.[39] The English version of the musical (translated by Duncan Shiels)[40] premiered in London in 1995.[citation needed] The German-language version of Dorian Gray (
Michael Kunze, Gunar Braunke[40]) toured in Germany for years, and also in the Netherlands, France and Switzerland.
In 2000, Dorian, a musical with book, music & lyrics by Richard Gleaves, premiered at the
Goodspeed Opera House starring Tom Stuart and
Sutton Foster (as the invented character of Sister Claire)[41]
The Canadian playwright
Ted Dykstra and lyricist Steven Mayoff wrote a musical Dorian.[42] The musical premiered in 2002 and is set in the late 1900s, with the character of Dorian transformed from a member of the idle rich to an aspiring young model.
In 2006, a Czech musical based on the novel premiered in Prague.
A musical adaptation of the book by young theatre company Kangaroo Court ran at the
Tabard Theatre,
Chiswick in 2008. The updated version centres on celebrity obsession and excesses.
Dorian the Remarkable Mister Gray: A Portrait in Music, is a stage musical with music, lyrics, and book by Randy Bowser. The work had its premiere at Pentacle Theatre in Salem, Oregon, in 2008. A Russian version is being produced in Moscow, at The Stas Namin Cente.[43][44]
In January 2009,
Dorian Gray was adapted and directed by Linnie Reedman, with music by Joe Evans. Produced by Ruby In The Dust, the show returned to the
Leicester Square Theatre on 26 June 2009, and again re-staged in March 2010 under the title of The Extraordinary Cabaret of Dorian Gray.[45][46]
In February 2013,
Dorian Gray was adapted into a musical by Callum Nicholls, a postgraduate composer at
Cardiff University School of Music,[49] and was performed by the school's students in Cardiff University Concert Hall.[50]
In 2016, CJeS Culture staged a Korean musical adaptation, scripted by Cho Yong-shin and composed by Kim Moon-jeong, with
Kim Junsu playing the titular role.[51]
In 2007, Australian playwrights Greg Eldridge and Liam Suckling adapted the novel into a three-act play. This premiered in May 2008 and returned as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in October 2008.
In January 2010,
Dorian Gray was adapted by Daniel Mitura and directed by Henning Hegland. Music by
Michael Nyman. The show premiered at the
Kirk Theatre on 42nd Street in New York.
Rhodes, Gary Don (2006) [1997]. Lugosi. His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
ISBN978-0-78640257-1.
Rhodes, Gary D.; Kaffenberger, Bill (2022). Becoming Dracula - The Early Years of Bela Lugosi (Kindle ed.). BearManor Media.