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Yes: It really amazes me how entirely convincingly Bette, as the twins, was able to interact with herself in this movie. Extremely well done special effects, for sure!

I came on here just to make the sa.e comment. I'm actually watching g "Dead Ringer" now, on TMC, one of my favorites from when I was a little girl. I was thinking about the many times dhe's played sisters with other a tresses, and, between this film and Dead Ringer, twins! (I think in her first or one of her first films she also played twins). Anyway, as good as the film Dead Ringers was in at least showing 2 Bettes on the screen, it was nothing compared to "A Stolen Life". The cigarette lighting scene was marvelous, as was the scene when they're right next to each other in bed....and other scenes. I wonder why Paul Henreid, in directing "Dead Ringer" in 1964 (18 years AFTER "A Stolen Life"), didn't try a few scenes in which the sisters actually touched or interacted with each other more closely. It was still well made; however, you could tell when a double was used, clearly. And, when both sisters appeared on screen together, there was a big space between them, indicating that the film was spliced.