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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Elisabeth Bergner
Sylvina Lawrence / Martina Lawrence
Michael Redgrave
Alan MacKenzie
Wilfrid Lawson
Thomas E. Lawrence
Mabel Terry-Lewis
Aunt Helen
Richard Ainley
Morgan
Kenneth Buckley
Garrett
Daniel Mendaille
Old Pauliac
Pierre Juvenet
Doctor
Stella Arbenina
Nurse
Kaye Seeley
Maturin
Ernest Ferny
Police Supt. Demangeon
Cot D'Ordan
Clerk
Dorice Fordred
Eileen
Annie Esmond
Cook
Clement McCallin
Karal Anderson
