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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ronald Colman | ... | Anthony John | |
| Signe Hasso | ... | Brita Kaurin | |
| Edmond O'Brien | ... | Bill Friend | |
| Shelley Winters | ... | Pat Kroll | |
| Ray Collins | ... | Victor Donlan | |
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Philip Loeb | ... | Max Lasker |
| Millard Mitchell | ... | Al Cooley | |
| Joe Sawyer | ... | Ray Bonner | |
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Charles La Torre | ... | Stellini |
| Whit Bissell | ... | Dr. Stauffer | |
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John Drew Colt | ... | Stage Manager |
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Peter M. Thompson | ... | Asst. Stage Manager (as Peter Thompson) |
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Elizabeth Dunne | ... | Gladys |
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Alan Edmiston | ... | Rex |
| Art Smith | ... | Wigmaker | |
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Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. When he's playing comedy, he's the most enjoyable person in the world, but when he's playing drama, it's terrible to be around him. That's the reason why his wife Brita divorced him; although she still loves him and works with him, she couldn't stand living with him anymore. So when Anthony accepts to play Othello, he devotes himself entirely to the part, but it soon overwhelms him and with each day his mind gets filled more and more with Othello's murderous jealousy. Written by Leon Wolters <wolters@strw.LeidenUniv.nl>
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USARelease Date:
1948 (Turkey) See more »Also Known As:
The Art of Murder See more »Filming Locations:
Republic Studios - 4024 Radford Avenue, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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(1829-32) (uncredited)
Written by Frédéric Chopin
Played a bit on piano by Brita
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This was the initial release of Kanin Productions, a company headed by producer Michael Kanin and his brother, writer-director Garson Kanin. See more »Goofs
At the end of the last "Othello", Tony appears to be distracted by someone just off-stage. We know that Bill, the policeman, and the restaurant owner are standing where he is looking, but the only one he knows is Bill. He had seen the restaurant owner only once, and surely couldn't have recognized him in the dark; and he had never met the policeman. His final act implies that he knows he has been found out, but what gave him that idea? See more »Crazy Credits
Opening credits appear against a theatre image with stage curtain. See more »Soundtracks
Opus 10 No. 3 in E Major(1829-32) (uncredited)
Written by Frédéric Chopin
Played a bit on piano by Brita
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Colman gives one of his greatest performances of his career and won an Academy Award as a Shakesperean actor whose off stage life imitates his theater role of Othello where he kills a woman he believes to be Desdemona. Electrifying suspense, laced with crackling dialogue and melodrama. Winters, in one of her earliest roles, is divine as the victim of Colman's madness. This film gives new meaning to the phrase "disappearing into a character."