Reviewed by rogerco,

on 08 Mar 2021
Where seen: Streamed proj @ home

Good screen acting representing bad stage acting

Review of" A Double Life  

Film directed by: George Cukor 

Film released: 1947

Summary
Not bad Hollywood standard movie.

Review

Well the stage acting was awful - as was presumably the norm at the time. Some of the morality of the story is dubious - the cop out ending where Tony (Ronald Coleman) is excused from facing the consequences of his actions is dubious, as is the use of the waitress as a proxy to be murdered in place of Brita (Signe Hasso), his co-star on stage and one-time wife.

Putting that aside it's a good story well filmed (as you'd expect from Cukor) that moves along nicely. Four stars only by not judging it by today's standards - otherwise it would be 2 at best.