***SPOILER ALERT
Eleanor Parker is Elizabeth, a bookish girl in sweaters and flats who works in a museum; Lizzie, a bourbon-drinking self-described slut, and Beth, a 'nice' girl...all rolled into one. Joan Blondell is her Aunt Morgan, who enjoys bourbon and sitting around the house in a bathrobe. Richard Boone is Dr. Wright (no kidding), patient and understanding.
Elizabeth/Lizzie/Beth shows signs of violence, all due to her 'unprincipled' mother who had the bad taste to die on her daughters birthday and unspeakable acts brought on by Mom's brute-of-the moment.
Soundtrack is overbearing. Each personality gets its own tune, a device so old even John the Baptist was bored by it.
Marion Ross plays an understanding friend, and you get to hear Johnny Mathis sing "Its Not for Me to Say" at a piano bar.
This might have been taken more seriously if it weren't released the same year as "The Three Faces of Eve", which won Joanne Woodward an Oscar that year.
For me, neither Parker nor Woodward can still hold a candle to Sally Field's "Sybil." 5/10.
Eleanor Parker is Elizabeth, a bookish girl in sweaters and flats who works in a museum; Lizzie, a bourbon-drinking self-described slut, and Beth, a 'nice' girl...all rolled into one. Joan Blondell is her Aunt Morgan, who enjoys bourbon and sitting around the house in a bathrobe. Richard Boone is Dr. Wright (no kidding), patient and understanding.
Elizabeth/Lizzie/Beth shows signs of violence, all due to her 'unprincipled' mother who had the bad taste to die on her daughters birthday and unspeakable acts brought on by Mom's brute-of-the moment.
Soundtrack is overbearing. Each personality gets its own tune, a device so old even John the Baptist was bored by it.
Marion Ross plays an understanding friend, and you get to hear Johnny Mathis sing "Its Not for Me to Say" at a piano bar.
This might have been taken more seriously if it weren't released the same year as "The Three Faces of Eve", which won Joanne Woodward an Oscar that year.
For me, neither Parker nor Woodward can still hold a candle to Sally Field's "Sybil." 5/10.