Stolen Life
Cast & Crew
Paul Czinner
Elisabeth Bergner
Michael Redgrave
Wilfred Lawson
Mabel Terry Lewis
Richard Ainley
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Martina Lawrence meets explorer Alan McKenzie while mountain climbing at an Alpine resort. Alan is enchanted by Martina and later, when he meets her twin sister Sylvina at the village post office, he mistakes Sylvina for Martina and she invites him to the hotel for lunch to meet her father and aunt. At lunch, Alan discovers that the girls are twins and, after falling in love with the flirtatious and superficial Sylvina, he proposes to her. Martina, the generous and honest sister, is also in love with Alan, but she nobly sacrifices her love for her sister's happiness. While Alan is away on a mountain climbing expedition, Martina visits her sister and the girls go sailing. When a storm suddenly comes up, Sylvina is drowned and Martina decides to take her place. She soon discovers that her sister has been unfaithful, and when Alan returns home he recounts his wife's infidelities and asks for a divorce. Sensing that she has changed and is unlike the girl he married, Alan is puzzled until Martina discloses her true identity to him, and they lived happily ever after.
Director
Paul Czinner
Cast
Elisabeth Bergner
Michael Redgrave
Wilfred Lawson
Mabel Terry Lewis
Richard Ainley
Kenneth Buckley
Danielle Mendaille
Pierre Jouvenet
Stella Arbenina
Kaye Seely
Ernest Ferny
Cot D'ordan
Dorice Fordred
Annie Esmond
Clement Mccallin
Oliver Johnston
Roy Russell
Homer Regus
Boomsie, A Dog
Cyril Horrocks
O. B. Clarence
John Lloyd
Davina Carid
Dorothy Dewhurst
Fewlass Llewellyn
Paulette Preney
Gayene Michaeldze
Cyril Chamberlain
D. J. Williams
Crew
Film Details
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Quotes
Trivia
Notes
According to a news item in Hollywood Reporter, Alan Antic, a French writer, sold this story, "Stolen Life," as a vehicle for Elisabeth Bergner. Antic receives no writing credit in the reviews for this picture, however. This picture was made in 1938 under an agreement between Paramount, J. Arthur Rank and Paul Czinner in which Paramount was awarded distribution rights to Orion pictures. Orion was formed to make pictures which would consolidate actor Michael Redgrave's reputation. The picture was remade by Warner Bros. in 1946 under the title of A Stolen Life, starring Bette Davis and Glenn Ford and directed by Curtis Bernhardt.
