Ingird Bergman won the first of her three Academy Awards for the 1944 film Gaslight. The exquisite and profoundly gifted Bergman plays Paula, a Victorian newlywed who returns home to London with her new husband after years abroad following a family tragedy. Unfortunately her new husband (Charles Boyer) is trying quite literally to drive her insane. It's a finely acted melodrama and features the first on screen appearance of Angela Lanburry who was all of seventeen when she played the role of Paula's tart-tongued cockney maid.
Because World War II was still being waged the Oscar ceremony was a relatively low key affair and Bergman wore a simple dark dress that fell just below her knee. Frankly, it wasn't very flattering but you'd have to try a lot harder than a frumpy dress to dim Ingrid Bergman's radiance.
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