The 3 Faces of Eleanor Parker
1957 was apparently a year for muliptle personalities. Joanne Woodward got her
Oscar for The Three Faces Of Eve and Eleanor Parker came out with this film
Lizzie.
With the acclaim that Woodward's film got which made her a star, Lizzie seems to be lost in the shuffle. That's a pity because Parker's performance is noteworthy and may have been Oscar worthy.
The similarities between the films are really astonishing. Parker is a woman with three recognizable personalities, a mousy good girl, a tramp who writes nasty letters to her other selves and a relatively normal type. Both go through some therapy with a psychiatrist in this film Richard Boone to find a cure. As is usual with films on mental illness the cure is way too simplistic. But the moviegoing public wants easy answers to life's problems. It's why they go to the cinema.
Also note a good performance by Joan Blondell as Lizzie's frowsy drunk of an aunt whom she lives with
Lizzie is wortthwhile viewing.
With the acclaim that Woodward's film got which made her a star, Lizzie seems to be lost in the shuffle. That's a pity because Parker's performance is noteworthy and may have been Oscar worthy.
The similarities between the films are really astonishing. Parker is a woman with three recognizable personalities, a mousy good girl, a tramp who writes nasty letters to her other selves and a relatively normal type. Both go through some therapy with a psychiatrist in this film Richard Boone to find a cure. As is usual with films on mental illness the cure is way too simplistic. But the moviegoing public wants easy answers to life's problems. It's why they go to the cinema.
Also note a good performance by Joan Blondell as Lizzie's frowsy drunk of an aunt whom she lives with
Lizzie is wortthwhile viewing.
- bkoganbing
- Jun 26, 2019