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Jamie Foxx’s Oscar-winning performance as Ray Charles in 2004’s ‘Ray’ will go down in history as one of his best. But his chemistry with the music icon off screen was just as touching. As production for the film began in July of 2002, Foxx and Charles met for what SFGATE called a “trial-by-jam-session,” so the actor could pick up on some of the musician’s piano-side charm. He ended up earning Charles’ blessing, and avoided meeting with him again–instead using tapes provided by Quincy Jones of a

Gaslight (1944), directed by George Cukor, is a psychological thriller that gave the world the term “gaslighting.” Set in Victorian London, the film follows a woman (Ingrid Bergman) whose husband (Charles Boyer) manipulates her into believing she’s going mad. Cukor masterfully crafts an atmosphere of paranoia through shadowy interiors and dimming gaslights. Bergman won an Oscar for her performance. The film is a remake of a 1940 British version and was based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gas L