On Thursday, June 17, 1975, in the locked Apartment 10H, the corpses of the twins’ doctors were found, heavily decayed after being dead for at least a week. Cyril and Stewart Marcus still can’t be topped.Īnd today, almost a half-century later, what happened to cause their demise is still something of a medical mystery.ĭead about a week, their fetid, decomposing bodies were discovered by a handyman attracted to a terrible odor emanating from Cyril’s locked apartment,10H, in the red brick high-rise at 460 East 63 rd Street and York Avenue, where Stewart sometimes stayed. ©Amazon/Courtesy Everett Collectionīut despite Hollywood and publishing’s storytelling imagination and ingenuity, the true account of the life and death of Drs.

Weisz’s characters are brilliant, unethical, and strange, paralleling the lives of the Marcus twins. Cyril (left) and Marcus (right) Stewart were brilliant doctors and identical twins whose lives inspired “Dead Ringers,” with their status as “fertility Gods” to families who had struggled to conceive in an era before IVF. It starred Jeremy Irons, who, like Weisz, plays both roles as crazed twin gynecologists, male docs, like the real-life Marcus twins, and that film was based on a 1977 novel, appropriately titled “Twins,” published two years after the Marcus’s deaths and features crazed physicians twins, one a gynecologist. Weisz’s Dead Ringers - which flips the gender of the real-life protagonists, and has one of the gyno twins with a fetish for female body parts and illegal human embryo experimentation - was adapted from David Cronenberg’s 1988 film, also named “Dead Ringers.” In “Dead Ringers,” Rachel Weisz plays two brilliant but deranged twin-sister gynecologists.īut the real story on which the Amazon show is based may be even stranger: the mysterious deaths of near-identical twin gynecologists, Cyril and Stewart Marcus, 45, whose decomposing bodies - one naked, one partially clothed - were discovered in their squalor-filled 10th-floor Sutton Terrace apartment, in July 1975. ‘Ted Lasso’ star on the pain she poured into character, joy at being a mom

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