I married a shade

I married a shade is a novel of William Irish of 1948.

" It is about a thing with share. It is about a assassinat".

It knows that it is not it. But it also knows that if it is not it, it can be only him. But he knows that it is not him. And that then, it can be only it.

Given up by the man who allured it, Helen, enclosure, flee New York. In the train, she sympathizes with a couple of young grooms. The young woman, Patricia, are it also pregnant. In the toilets, she entrusts her alliance to Helen. But abruptly, the train runs off the line. When Helen awakes, in a pretty room of hospital, it understands that alliance made it take for Patricia, dead in the accident…

How to dream of another life until replacing another, how to fall in love, how to finish in a dead end unresolved.

With the cinema

The novel of William Irish was the subject of two film adaptations to the USA, one in 1950, No Man off her Own , carried out by Mitchell Leisen with Barbara Stanwyck), the other entitled Mrs. Winterbourne , realized in 1996 by Richard Benjamin with Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake and Brendan Fraser.

There exists also a version Bollywood, Kati Patang (1970), which was worth with the main actor Asha Parekh the Filmfare price.

The French adptation: I married a shade left in 1983. The film, carried out by Robin Davis, with Nathalie Baye, Francis Huster and Richard Bohringer, unfortunately raises the remote regions which made all the success of the novel.

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