A Stolen Life
When a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels that her sister took from her years before.
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"The subject is not really new.In her last film "Two-Faced woman" ,Greta Garbo played "twins" (but actually there was only one woman) with different personalities.More interesting was Siodak's "the dark mirror" where Davis' good friend Olivia de Havilland played twin sisters too,one of whom was suspected of murder. Twins were certainly trendy at the time since ,the very same year as De Havilland,Davis tried her hand at the subject,not in a thriller,but in a melodrama.Davis was as subtle an actress to portray two different women.One of them is an artist ,..."
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Many of the Oscar-nominated special effects pioneered by this film were employed later on similar projects requiring actors to play their own twins, including The Parent Trap (1961), The Patty Duke Show (1963), and Bette Davis' unofficial remake of this film, Dead Ringer (1963).
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When a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels that her sister took from her years before.