The 1945 MGM* version of Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray — sort of Anglo-Hollywood; Angela Lansbury's debut, George Sanders... The progressively more grotesque series of portraits [painted by Ivan Albright] were very effectively done, and there was a fine atmosphere of late-Victorian foggy London.

* Yes relation, btw — Louis B Mayer was my first-cousin-twice-removed, i.e my grandfather's 1st cousin: so, for all your jokes, my initials are not entirely adventitious, even if my Californian relations can't spell it right! - Michael Grosvenor Myer xxx