A Double Life

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Summary: A Fellow Actor
Review: I've been acting for 25 years. I played John Barrymore in a one man show in the fall of 2003. Ronald Colman's story playing Othello is not fantasy. Believe me.

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Summary: Ronald Colman's Oscar winning performance
Review: Ronald Colman finally won his long-overdue Academy Award for playing Anthony John, a Broadway star. The man is elegant and witty when playing in a drawing room comedy, but when he is cast as the lead in Shakespeare's "Othello," John turns excessive morbid.... "A Double Life" was directed by George Cukor from the original screenplay written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. The film certainly gave Colman a role that tested his total range as an actor and it is chilling to watch him get closer and closer to the edge as both John and Othello. In a time when "method acting" and submerging yourself in the role were catching on, "A Double Life" looks at the dark side of such an approach.

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Summary: Awesome Movie.
Review: This is a must see movie. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Good film, brilliant performance by Ronald Coleman.
Review: To act is to take on the personality of your subject. To be a brilliant actor, one must identify with the soul of the subject by finding a commonality within oneself and exploit it to the fullest. Anthony John is a brilliant actor who's been given an opportunity to play Othello, a dark brooding role, but is troubled by the idea. His ex-wife Rita explains: "We were engaged doing Oscar Wilde, broke it off doing O'Neill, married doing Kaufman and Hart, and divorced doing Chekov." For Anthony acting is all consuming. Othello will bring out the best in Anthony the actor, but in order to achieve this level of perfection he must release a demon within himself - jealous rage. Once released, will he be able to put it back? Ronald Colman gives a riviting performance as Anthony John. Ruth Gordon wrote the screenplay.