***SPOILERS*** Based on the true story of Chris Contner Sizemore the film "Three Faces of Eve" explores the problem of multiple personalities that at the time of the release of the movie in 1957 was almost totally unknown even in the world of medicine.
Eve White, Joanne Woodward, has been acting somewhat strange of late losing her memory from time to time and doing things that's very unlike herself. It's Eve's husband Ralph, David Wayne, who decides to take his wife to see a psychiatrist in order to get to the bottom of what's causing her to act in this strange and puzzling behavior. It's Doctor Curtis Luther, Lee J. Cobb, Eve's head shrinker or psychiatrist who first finds out that she has a split personality being simple housewife Eve White by day and party girl Eve Black by night. This split personality on Eve's part drives her confused husband Ralph bonkers. It's when he catches Eve trying to strangle his and her little girl Bonnie, Terry Ann Ross, that he really goes nuts, and who can blame him, and almost ends up beating the living hell out of his deranged wife Eve.
It's when plain Jane Eve White becomes hot & sexy Eve Black that Ralph in fact gets turned on to her and tries to get it on with Eve but the fact that she's a bit insane has him back off at the very last moment. It's not too long that Ralph is completely out of the picture or movie with Eve playing the field in the romance department with mostly soldiers on weekend passes , like Sgt Vince Edwards, that never really get anywhere. With Dr. Luther desperately trying to get a handle to his patience Eve white's problems all of a sudden pops up this third personally inside Eve a Miss. Jane who's about the most normal of the three. By then Dr. Cobb finally gets to the bottom of Eve's illness that stemmed from the death of her grandma when she was six and began to work on it.
****SPOILERS*** Eve realizing that three personalities into one new body just doesn't work then shad her two other personalities, Eve White & Black, and finally became normal or better yet whole again Jane. But as for Eve's friends and family members who knows her both as Eve White and Eve Black she was still someone who needed help not just for herself but those, like Dr. Luther, who have to deal with her personality disorder without them ending up going nuts themselves.
Eve White, Joanne Woodward, has been acting somewhat strange of late losing her memory from time to time and doing things that's very unlike herself. It's Eve's husband Ralph, David Wayne, who decides to take his wife to see a psychiatrist in order to get to the bottom of what's causing her to act in this strange and puzzling behavior. It's Doctor Curtis Luther, Lee J. Cobb, Eve's head shrinker or psychiatrist who first finds out that she has a split personality being simple housewife Eve White by day and party girl Eve Black by night. This split personality on Eve's part drives her confused husband Ralph bonkers. It's when he catches Eve trying to strangle his and her little girl Bonnie, Terry Ann Ross, that he really goes nuts, and who can blame him, and almost ends up beating the living hell out of his deranged wife Eve.
It's when plain Jane Eve White becomes hot & sexy Eve Black that Ralph in fact gets turned on to her and tries to get it on with Eve but the fact that she's a bit insane has him back off at the very last moment. It's not too long that Ralph is completely out of the picture or movie with Eve playing the field in the romance department with mostly soldiers on weekend passes , like Sgt Vince Edwards, that never really get anywhere. With Dr. Luther desperately trying to get a handle to his patience Eve white's problems all of a sudden pops up this third personally inside Eve a Miss. Jane who's about the most normal of the three. By then Dr. Cobb finally gets to the bottom of Eve's illness that stemmed from the death of her grandma when she was six and began to work on it.
****SPOILERS*** Eve realizing that three personalities into one new body just doesn't work then shad her two other personalities, Eve White & Black, and finally became normal or better yet whole again Jane. But as for Eve's friends and family members who knows her both as Eve White and Eve Black she was still someone who needed help not just for herself but those, like Dr. Luther, who have to deal with her personality disorder without them ending up going nuts themselves.