laird cregar hangover square

Hamilton had wanted to sell the rights […] I Wake Up Screaming (1941) -This proto-noir has a lot going for it—visual flair, Elisha Cook—but the best thing about it is the urbane, sinister turn by Cregar…

“Laird Cregar has dropped a total of 102 pounds,” reported the Hollywood Reporter.

Vincent Price, Cregar's co-star in his first film Hudson's Bay (1941), delivered the eulogy. Laird Cregar as George and Linda Darnell as Netta in the 1945 film adaptation.

Cregar is interred in Eventide Section, lot 37, space 2 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Start here, with Hangover Square, with Cregar playing a sympathetic monster—a role that, sadly enough, he seemed born to play. Hangover Square was released two months after his death. A fog-filled London is the setting for Jekyll And Hyde-type thriller Hangover Square from 1945 about a tortured composer who turns murderer when he hears loud noises.

The success of 1944's serial killer film The Lodger, a dark spin on source material earlier filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, made enough of a splash at Fox for director John Brahm to return with two of that film's stars, George Sanders and In Hangover Square (1945), the final film of his tragically brief career, Cregar got to do both at once, creating for viewers a sympathetic, romantic figure who also happens to be a homicidal maniac. Patrick Hamilton’s book of the same name was described by John Betjeman as being in the top class of English novels. The price for his effort would prove high, indeed; Cregar died of a massive heart attack, brought on by his radical weight loss program, before Hangover Square made its way to the screen. 1. The funeral was held on December 13, 1944.

Other Great Cregar Performances. This nail-biting, grim crime thriller is the final film of talented young actor Laird Cregar, who had the potential of becoming a major Hollywood star had he not died shortly after filming. Hangover Square is a moody noir about a composer, George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) struggling to complete his concerto while being wrapped around the finger of an ambitious vixen singer named Netta Longdon (Linda Darnell).

His fear of being typecast compounded with his low-esteem body-issues caused him to go on a drastic weight-loss diet for his next role- which was the lead in the psychological thriller Hangover Square.