“If only it was the picture who was to grow old, and I remain young. There’s nothing in the world I wouldn’t give for that. Yes, I would give even my soul for it.” THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945) ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Most literary classics and near-classics translate rather stodgily to the screen, no matter how faithful the adaptation. Oscar Wilde’s famed and fancy ...

Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" has inspired no less than six screen adaptations, including the classic 1945 Hollywood version with Hurd Hatfield as the young Faustian figure who barters ...

Yet it’s not technology itself that leaves “Dorian Gray” feeling so brittle where “Vanya” is a tear fest. It’s that the technology dominates all other values, including Wilde’s, often denying the ...