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.

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Cast

Elisabeth Bergner

Sylvina Lawrence / Martina Lawrence

Michael Redgrave

Alan MacKenzie

Wilfrid Lawson

Thomas E. Lawrence

Mabel Terry-Lewis

Aunt Helen

Richard Ainley

Morgan

Daniel Mendaille

Old Pauliac

Pierre Juvenet

Doctor

Stella Arbenina

Nurse

Ernest Ferny

Police Supt. Demangeon

Oliver Johnston

Prof. Bardesley