"A Double Life" (1947) ended up banking $1,700,000 at the box office and ranked at #75 among the Top Grossers of 1948. Bosley Crowther at The New York Times described the film as "a modern drama which thoroughly employs the screen to demonstrate the strange exictement and the deathless romance of the theatre" and considers the casting of Ronald Colman in the lead role as "the role of his lengthy career." "The only question is whether Mr. Colman is more spectacular as the mentally distressed star of Broadway or as the bearded Venetian Moor. In either case, he plays an actor cocked and primed for romantic tragedy." Despite the fact that the Caucasian Anthony John in the film is considered to be the longest-running "Othello" in history, in 1945, the often cast Paul Robeson finished a two-year North American tour of the Shakespeare play and making him the longest-running Othello in real life. Homage must be given to this.
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| John Boyega as Anthony "Tony" John |
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| Mia Wasikowska as Brita |
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| LaKeith Stanfield as Bill Friend |
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| Nicola Peltz as Pat Kroll |
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