The Three Faces of Eve
1957 – Drama – Not Rated
The Plot:
When Alistair Cooke shows up to introduce Three Faces of Eve, we know that the fact-based story will bear more than a little fidelity to truth. Joanne Woodward won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eve, a young Georgia housewife suffering from multiple personalities. Eve’s husband (David Wayne), confused by his wife’s aberrant behavior when assuming her two “other selves,” seeks out help from a psychiatrist (Lee J. Cobb). Carefully probing Eve’s subconscious via hypnosis, the doctor finds out that, though each of Eve’s personalities is aware of the other’s existence, none are related. After months of therapy, Eve is purged of her negative selves and is totally cured. Ironically, Joanne Woodward would herself play a psychologist confronted with a multiple-personality case in the Emmy-winning 1976 TV movie Sybil. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
This was an accidental rental, as it’s not a movie either of us would have picked from the description. It came in a Blockbuster envelope labeled Two Lovers, but was the wrong disc. We decided, what the heck, we’d see what it was like. (And there was absolutely nothing on TV that night.)
The Good:
It had me captivated right from the beginning when the narrator said that it was a true story, not just based on a true story, as they hadn’t changed anything for dramatic effect, and this was just minutes after I had told Russ that I knew I wouldn’t like anything that was in black and white. It was quite interesting and intriguing.
The Bad:
It was in black and white.
The Recommendation:
This is a hard call. Well, it totally didn’t seem like a movie I would be interested in, but I didn’t even open my book the whole way through it, so obviously it held my attention throughout. Russ on the other hand fell asleep, as usual.
