During the 1950s, a Los Angeles psychiatrist uses hypnosis to treat a 25-year-old woman who's suffering from multiple personality disorder.During the 1950s, a Los Angeles psychiatrist uses hypnosis to treat a 25-year-old woman who's suffering from multiple personality disorder.During the 1950s, a Los Angeles psychiatrist uses hypnosis to treat a 25-year-old woman who's suffering from multiple personality disorder.
Fred Aldrich
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
Jan Englund
- Helen Jameson
- (uncredited)
Pat Goldin
- Man in Bar
- (uncredited)
Karen Green
- Elizabeth (age 9)
- (uncredited)
Ken Lynch
- Man at Bar
- (uncredited)
Michael Mark
- Bartender
- (uncredited)
Dick Paxton
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Carl Sklover
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
Gene Walker
- Guard
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaShirley Jackson was not impressed with this filmed adaptation of her novel "The Bird's Nest". Her assessment: "Abbott and Costello meet a multiple personality." (From Ruth Franklin's 2016 biography "Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life".)
- GoofsIn Johnny Mathis' first scene at the bar, the position of the microphone head and the drink near it on the piano keep changing positions between shots.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Elizabeth Richmond: [from the top of the stairs as the doctor is at the front door ready to leave] Dr. Wright... Good night, and thank you.
Dr. Neal Wright: [just before exiting the front door] Good night... and, happy birthday.
- SoundtracksIt's Not for Me to Say
Music by Robert Allen
Lyrics by Al Stillman (as Albert Stillman)
Performed by Johnny Mathis (uncredited)
[The bar singer performs the song when Johnny is sitting at the piano and Lizzie telephones the bar looking for him]
Featured review
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.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Hidden Faces
- Filming locations
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - 900 Exposition Boulevard, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA(Elizabeth, Ruth and Johnny work there)
- Production company
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- $361,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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