Among the best known versions is MGM’s 1945 feature film, directed by Albert Lewin and starring Hurd Hatfield as Gray.
Big screen adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Gray are nearly as old as cinema itself.
A 1910 Danish short represents the first filmic take, but there have been dozens of iterations across film, television, and radio.
While the majority of the film was shot in black and white, then state of the art Technicolor inserts were used for several scenes involving the portrait’s degradation.