9/11/2023 0 Comments A stolen life movie![]() Kate’s more aggressive sister Pat is also an island visitor. Bill mentions that he has a new job in Boston waiting for him, but promises to return to the area. Benes, and is written by Catherine Turney and Margaret Buell Wilder.Īspiring repressed painter Kate Bosworth (Bette Davis) falls in love with the hunky Massachusetts island lighthouse engineer, Bill Emerson (Glenn Ford), stationed in nearby Dragon Head, whom she meets while visiting her cousin Freddie ( Charles Ruggles). My favorite line in the film has someone say: “Your sister’s a very dangerous woman, Katie! She could worm the secrets right out of a sphinx.” Davis to give an over-the-top show-off performance, as one of the sisters who steals the identity of the other. ![]() The German-born Hollywood director Curtis Bernhardt (“Possessed”/”Sirocco”/”The Blue Veil”) encourages Ms. ![]() She was to repeat that type of twin portrayal performance in the 1964 Paul Henreid’s film Dead Ringer. Davis plays the double role of identical twins, in a split-screen performance of the good sister Kate and the bad sister Pat. It’s a remake of a 1938 British film that starred Elisabeth Bergner. This unbelievable but enjoyable drama with a New England setting, is Bette Davis’s first and last film as a producer. “ This unbelievable but enjoyable drama with a New England setting, is Bette Davis’s first and last film as a producer.” Johnson), Joan Winfield (Lucy, Clara Blandick (Martha) Runtime: 109 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Bette Davis Warner Brothers 1946) Benes cinematographers: Sol Polito/ Ernest Haller editor: Rudi Fehr music: Max Steiner cast: Bette Davis ( Kate Bosworth), Glenn Ford ( Bill Emerson), Charles Ruggles ( Freddie Lindley), Bruce Bennett ( Jack Talbot), Walter Brennan ( Eben Folgor), Dane Clark ( Karnock), Peggy Knudsen ( Deidre), Esther Dale ( Mrs. Photos © Copyright Warner Bros.A STOLEN LIFE (director: Curtis Bernhardt screenwriters: Catherine Turney/ Margaret Buell Wilder/based on the novel by Karel J. A Stolen Life is not one of her most remembered films but it is worth a look. And it is interesting to compare this to the recent Adaptation and see just how far technology has come since then.Īs a producer, Bette Davis surrounded herself with topnotch talent and she gives another flawless performance giving each sister subtly different idiosyncrasies. I'm sure this caused audible gasps in 1946. In the first scene that the twins are shown in together Katie lights a match and hands it to her sister. Although by today's standards the technology is primitive there is at least one moment that holds up well. Will she be able to convince Bill and her artist boyfriend (whom she had turned to for comfort after losing Bill to Pat) that she is really her sister? This is a Bette Davis movie after all, so you can expect some high drama before the credits roll.Īudiences were thrilled at seeing two Bette Davis's on screen interacting with each other. So Katie assumes her sisters identity in order to get her husband. They get caught in a sudden squall and the boat capsizes. Katie and Pat go sailing together in an attempt to bury the hatchet. Fate intervenes (as fate always does in these old melodramas). The less confident Katie gives up refusing to compete with Pat she loses her man. Once the identities of the sisters is sorted out Bill finds himself caught between them. The next day he meets the more glamorous Pat and mistakes her for a 'dressed up' Katie. They are immediately attracted to each other. In a picturesque New England town Katie meets handsome lighthouse inspector Bill Emerson (Glenn Ford). You know that the evil twin will be innocently mistaken for the good twin early on in the movie and that the good twin will eventually assume the role of the evil twin in the end. Countless sitcom episodes have copied this formula and, in fact, Bette Davis would do it again nearly twenty years later in Dead Ringer. Katie is the goodhearted aspiring artist while Pat is the evil twin who steals her man. Bette Davis plays twin sisters Kate and Patricia Bosworth. It was a huge hit for parent company Warner Bros. Bette Davis and Glenn Ford in A Stolen Life.Ī Stolen Life was the first movie produced by Bette Davis' production company B.
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