The Three Faces of Eve
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Movie Reviews of The Three Faces of Eve
Movie Review: Three Faces of Eve
Summary: 5 Stars
Based on a true story & started us thinking about mental health. A must see. The stars are wonderfulMovie Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a true story that Joanne Woodward does a spectacular job. Very interesting story.Movie Review: 3 Faces of Eve
Summary: 5 Stars
Still a relevant classic. I bought it for use in the Psychology class I teach on DID.Movie Review: The Three Faces of Eve
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a good older movie, if interested in mental disorders.Movie Review: A very good film about split personalities
Summary: 4 Stars
Producer/director/screenwriter Nunnally Johnson's THE THREE FACES OF EVE (1957, Fox) may be the most truthful portrait of mental illness ever. It is based on a book by doctors Corbett H. Thigpen and Harvey M. Cleckley, which tells the true story of a troubled Georgia wife and mother. In the early 1950's, a woman named Eve White visits a psychiatrist named Dr. Luther (Lee J. Cobb). She is having disturbing nightmares. It turns out that Eve White has a split personality she shares with a woman named Eve Black. Joanne Woodward won a Best Actress Oscar as both Eves; it is a remarkable performance that will also later involve a third personality named Jane. Eve White is a troubled and insecure wife and mother. Eve Black is a seductive partygoer. Jane is a sympathetic and intelligent middle balance. Dr. Luther's goal is to get rid of both Eves so that Jane can dominate.
I suffer from mental illness myself. I am insecure, depressed, and have moments of anger. I see two excellent psychiatrists regularly at Kaiser. So I speak knowledgeably when I say that Johnson gets the details right in THREE FACES OF EVE. The personality changes are subtle. There is no couch--Dr. Luther sits smoking in a desk chair, while one of the Woodward personalities (a real acting tour de force) sits in a chair at the opposite end of a long screen. (The movie is brilliantly photographed in B&W and CinemaScope by THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS' Stanley Cortez.) This is psychiatry as it really is--subtle, difficult, painful, ultimately liberating. The legendary Alistair Cooke gives it credibility as host and infrequent narrator. Lee J. Cobb is superb as always, and David Wayne is also excellent as a perplexed and unsympathetic husband.
The DVD of THE THREE FACES OF EVE includes an audio commentary by film historian Aubrey Solomon, a theatrical trailer, and a Movietone News clip of the Academy Awards. Plus a mint condition studio print. It is a must-see when you want to see a very good movie about the complex world of mental illness.