Stolen Life

Stolen Life

90 mins | Drama | Jan. 18, 1939

Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.

Stolen Life

90 mins | Drama | Jan. 18, 1939

Stolen Life
Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
Producers
Original title Stolen Life
Directors Paul Czinner
Writers Karel Josef Beneš, Margaret Kennedy

Cast

Elisabeth Bergner

as Sylvina Lawrence / Martina Lawrence

Michael Redgrave

as Alan MacKenzie

Wilfrid Lawson

as Thomas E. Lawrence

Mabel Terry-Lewis

as Aunt Helen

Richard Ainley

as Morgan

Kenneth Buckley

as Garrett

Daniel Mendaille

as Old Pauliac

Pierre Juvenet

as Doctor

Stella Arbenina

as Nurse

Kaye Seeley

as Maturin

Ernest Ferny

as Police Supt. Demangeon

Cot D'Ordan

as Clerk

Dorice Fordred

as Eileen

Annie Esmond

as Cook

Clement McCallin

as Karal Anderson

Oliver Johnston

as Prof. Bardesley

Roy Russell

as British Minister

Homer Regus

as Mayor