The Dual Roles Blogathon: Day 1 Recap

I’m seeing double! In this case, it’s a positive thing. Thanks so much everyone for helping get Day 1 of the Dual Roles Blogathon off to a fantastic start. If you don’t see your post recapped today, don’t worry. We will make sure we include it in tomorrow’s recap.

Thoughts All Sorts gives us Cillian Murphy as Emma and John Skillpa in Peacock.  

Plain, Simple Tom Reviews presents Lee Marvin twice over in Cat Ballou.

The Movie Rat shows the unique challenges facing a child actor in a dual role in The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Twenty Four Frames reviews Brian De Palma’s Sisters.

Realweegiemidget Reviews writes about Tom Hardy as the real-life gangster twins in Legend.

MovieMovieBlogBlog gives us TWO films with multiple role playing: first with Buster Keaton in The Playhouse and next with Laurel and Hardy in Our Relations.

Once Upon a Screen writes about A Double Dose of Elvis: Kissin Cousins.

Love Letters to Old Hollywood writes about the dual roles Rock Hudson plays in both Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back.

Anna, Look! explores the two roles of Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood.

B Noir Detour writes about Bette Davis as twins in Dead Ringer.

Cinematic Scribblings writes of the three roles Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni assay in Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

Pop Culture Pundit explores how David Lynch uses dual roles in his film, Mulholland Drive.

Silent-ology gives us the comedic genius of Constance Talmadge in two roles in Her Sister From Paris.

Cinema Cities writes about Deborah Kerr’s three roles in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.