Cregar

Heaven Can Wait (1943) -- On the day of his death, assured that he'll be rebuffed in Paradise, aristocratic New Yorker Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) pays a visit to His Excellency (Laird Cregar), a highly courteous Lucifer who agrees to listen to Van Cleve's life story and determine whether he's right for Hell- a place people had often "told him to go."

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The original version of Vicki, I Wake Up Screaming (1941), has the real advantage of having Laird Cregar play the genuinely creepy detective.

Weekly Mishmash: March 1-7 : Scrubbles.net 2009

Hollywoodand in particular that makeup artist who, when Cregar sat down & said “Well, what kind of monster am I this time?”

Black and White World: This Gun for Hire – The Bleat. 2009

Since “This Gun for Hire” was released in May 1942, Cregar was only 29 years old in the film!

Black and White World: This Gun for Hire – The Bleat. 2009

The pictures showed the restaurant, the "Eat in the Hat" sign, and two movie stars -- I think it was Bette Davis and Laird Cregar -- inside the hat, eating cheeseburgers.

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The idea of the film based on a Patrick Hamilton novel but with the time period changed to the turn of the century, the better to re-use stuff from Brahm's previous film, The Lodger is that Cregar is a promising young composer/pianist with a split personality; when he's stressed out and hears loud horrible noises, it causes him to black out and commit acts of violence without being fully aware of what he's doing.

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Police shrink George Sanders investigates and concludes that there is no evidence at the crime scene that could link Cregar to the murder (huh?) so Cregar puts the whole thing out of his mind even after finding the knife with which the murder was committed (why didn't Sanders find it?)

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Then later in the film, when Cregar's pal Faye Marlowe is attacked from behind after an argument with Cregar, no one suspects him of having done it -- not even Marlowe, who knows about his problems.

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Why is it that the police think that a later murder couldn't have been done by Cregar, even though he's the only possible suspect, because "he doesn't act like a guilty man?"

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Hangover Square is probably most famous as the part Laird Cregar killed himself to get; the legend is that Cregar lost a hundred pounds to play his first top-billed role, wrecked his health in the process, and died.

Archive 2007-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007