A Double Life is a 1947 American film noir that tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character whom he portrays.

It stars Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso and was directed by George Cukor, with its screenplay written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin.

Brita agrees with Donlan and warns press agent Bill Friend that although Tony's mood is delightful when appearing in a comedy, he is terrifying when performing in a drama.

Reporter Al Cooley offers Bill front-page publicity for the play by highlighting the similarities between Pat's murder and Othello's "kiss of death."

[8] Miklós Rózsa's music, for which he won his second Academy Award, mixes his own modern idiom with passages in the Venetian style of the 16th century.

Rózsa later adopted the title Double Life for his 1982 memoir to signify the division in his career between absolute music and Hollywood film scores.

[citation needed] A Double Life premiered on Christmas Day 1947 in Hollywood as a limited roadshow engagement timed to qualify the film and its stars for Academy Award consideration.

[9] In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther wrote: "Miss Gordon and Mr. Kanin, in collaboration with William Shakespeare, have whipped up a modern drama which thoroughly employs the screen to demonstrate the strange excitement and the deathless romance of the theatre.

"[2] Reviewer Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "It captures the pulse of the New York theater to an extraordinary degree, inherently as well as because some of it was shot there; it is adult, outspoken and subtle, and it has shaken Mr. Colman free of most of the repressions imposed upon him by years of effete grand seigniory in Hollywood.