Ronald Colman

Signe Hasso

Edmond O'Brien

Shelley Winters

Ray Collins

Philip Loeb

Millard Mitchell

Joe Sawyer

Charles La Torre

Whit Bissell

John Drew Colt

Peter M. Thompson

Elizabeth Dunne

Alan Edmiston

Art Smith

Sid Tomack

Wilton Graff

Harlan Briggs

Claire Carleton

Betsy Blair

Janet Warren

Marjorie Woodworth

Guy Bates Post

Fay Kanin

David Bond

Arthur Gould-Porter

Leslie Denison

Frederick Worlock

Virginia Patton

Boyd Irwin

Thayer Roberts

Percival Vivian

Elliott Reid

Mary Young

Georgia Caine

William Bailey

Harry Bannister

Joseph E. Bernard

Reginald Billado

Laura K. Brooks

Paddy Chayefsky

Alexander Clark

Angela Clarke

Heinie Conklin

Curt Conway

Russ Conway

Leander De Cordova

Nick Dennis

John Derek

Joann Dolan

George Douglas

Watson Downs

Fernanda Eliscu

Franklyn Farnum

Maude Fealy

Bess Flowers

Nina Gilbert

Thomas Gomez

Dick Gordon

Beatrice Gray

Ethyl May Halls

Fred Hoose

Doretta Johnson

Charles Jordan

Robert Emmett Keane

Hazel Keener

James Khan

Kay Lavelle

Elmo Lincoln

James Linn

Phil MacKenzie

Barry Macollum

Janet Manson

Kathy Marlowe

Thomas Martin

Joyce Mathews

Don McGill

Walter McGrail

Hal Melone

Carl Milletaire

Howard M. Mitchell

Harry Hays Morgan

Jack Perrin

Albert Pollet

Joey Ray

Yvette Reynard

Frank Richards

Bruce Riley

Buddy Roosevelt

Sarah Selby

Jamesson Shade

George Sherwood

Pietro Sosso

Michael Stark

Cedric Stevens

Diane Stewart

Mike Stokey

Wayne C. Treadway

John Valentine

Mary Worth

George Cukor

Michael Kanin

Miklós Rózsa

Milton Krasner

Robert Parrish

Harry Horner

Harvey T. Gillett

Bernard Herzbrun

John P. Austin

Russell A. Gausman

Frank Shaw

Ruth Gordon

Garson Kanin

Carmen Dirigo

Bud Westmore

Drama

Thriller

A Double Life

Kanin Productions

Universal Pictures

Universal International Pictures

United States of America

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Ronald Coleman always did like playing either two parts, or one with a dual-personality - and he does the latter very well indeed here. If you've a basic knowledge of Shakespeare's "Othello" the that helps a bit as he portrays an actor "Tony" who, after many year playing the title role with ex-wife "Brita" (Signe Hasso) - who is also his wife "Desdemona" in the play - is really beginning to become delusional about which existence is real... His distress isn't helped by meeting Shelley Winters "Pat" in a bar, they hook up but it isn't what he really wants. That is happiness with "Trina". When he asks her to re-marry him, she declines sending him into spiral of depression that has tragic consequences as he again descends in to his character - only it is "Pat" who suffers. There is an intensity about Colman here - his eyes, menacing; his almost schizophrenic character genuinely quite scary at times, and his Shakespearian on-stage effort decent - if not exactly Olivier - when required. All of this, coupled with strong contributions from Hasso and his friend "Bill" (Edmond O'Brien), who ends up perilously close to getting of the blame for the worst of his Colman's excesses, make for a compelling, expertly shot, story of split-personality gone, quite literally, mad! George Cukor keeps this tense and focussed, and Miklós Ròsza again provides a score that aides wonderfully with the atmosphere of the piece.

English

A DOUBLE LIFE 1947 Original trailer

A DOUBLE LIFE [1947 MOVIE CLIP]