Sometimes I felt that Lizzie Borden should have come by and taken an ax to this film.
Made in 1957-the same year as The Three Faces of Eve, it deals with a woman, in this case, Eleanor Parker, dealing with and being treated for multiple personalities.
It has been said that Parker did have a tendency to over-act in films and this one is a perfect example. After such great films as Caged, Detective Story and Interrupted Melody, how did Parker allow herself to get involved with this one?
While the scene stealing definitely goes to Joan Blondell as her alcoholic, but coping Aunt Morgan, it is troubling that when Parker seems cured by film's end, Blondell also seems to perk up.
Richard Boone is the psychiatrist here who uses hypnotizing to get his patients to work their woes out.
Parker really presents an off-the-wall character as a quiet girl working in a museum, while at the same time, a drinker and club goer in the evening.
Perhaps, the funniest line in the film is stated by Blondell's next door neighbor beau, "The Irish Stew I made tasted more like gefilte fish.
Made in 1957-the same year as The Three Faces of Eve, it deals with a woman, in this case, Eleanor Parker, dealing with and being treated for multiple personalities.
It has been said that Parker did have a tendency to over-act in films and this one is a perfect example. After such great films as Caged, Detective Story and Interrupted Melody, how did Parker allow herself to get involved with this one?
While the scene stealing definitely goes to Joan Blondell as her alcoholic, but coping Aunt Morgan, it is troubling that when Parker seems cured by film's end, Blondell also seems to perk up.
Richard Boone is the psychiatrist here who uses hypnotizing to get his patients to work their woes out.
Parker really presents an off-the-wall character as a quiet girl working in a museum, while at the same time, a drinker and club goer in the evening.
Perhaps, the funniest line in the film is stated by Blondell's next door neighbor beau, "The Irish Stew I made tasted more like gefilte fish.