Editing A Double Life (1947 film) (section)

==Reception==
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. And by casting Ronald Colman as their matinee idol of vast renown and by giving him an opportunity to play a lot of 'Othello' within the play, they have handed this veteran actor 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."<ref name="nyt">{{Cite news |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |date=1948-02-20 |title=Four Premieres at Houses Here—Colman in 'A Double Life,' Feature at Music Hall |work=[[The New York Times]] |page=19}}</ref>

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. Yet much of the film is hard to follow, 'too' subtle in the sense that it does not always come off on the screen as its makers must surely have visualized it."<ref name="lat">{{Cite news |last=Scheuer |first=Philip K. |date=1947-12-25 |title=Colman's Jekyll-Hyde Frighteningly Real |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |page=10, Part II}}</ref>