A Double Life
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- This article is about the 1947 film. For the similarly-titled CD by Finnish folk group Värttinä, see Double Life.
| A Double Life | |
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 DVD cover of A Double Life | |
| Directed by | George Cukor |
| Produced by | Michael Kanin |
| Written by | Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin |
| Starring | Ronald Colman Signe Hasso Edmond O'Brien |
| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography | Milton Krasner |
| Distributed by | Universal International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 25 1947 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 104 min |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
A Double Life is a 1947 film noir film which tells the story of an actor, Anthony John, whose personal life takes on the characters that he is portraying.
When his wife leaves him and he begins to play Othello, he becomes a jealous homicidal madman. The actor eventually kills a lonely waitress, Pat Kroll, which starts an investigation by the police to try to trap him.
The movie was written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin and was directed by George Cukor.
Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style written by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward states that A Double Life is truly a picture of opposing forces, mirror images and deadly doubles: "Anthony John is at war with Othello, the elegant world of the theater is opposed to the squalid existence of Shelley Winters' Pat Kroll, and illusion versus reality are all conveyed in opposing lights and darks of Krasner's luminous photography."
[edit] Awards
It won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Ronald Colman) and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. It was nominated for Best Director and Best Writing, Original Screenplay.
[edit] Main cast
- Ronald Colman as Anthony John
- Signe Hasso as Brita
- Edmond O'Brien as Bill Friend
- Shelley Winters as Pat Kroll
- Ray Collins as Victor Donlan
[edit] References
Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style written by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward ISBN 0-87951-479-5
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