History Film / TheThreeFacesOfEve

''The Three Faces of Eve'' is a 1957 drama film written and directed by Nunnally Johnson, starring Joanne Woodward, Creator/DavidWayne, and Lee J. Cobb.

''The Three Faces of Eve'' is a 1957 drama film written and directed by Nunnally Johnson, starring Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, and Lee J. Cobb.

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''The Three Faces of Eve'' is a 1957 film starring Joanne Woodward as a woman with multiple personalities, names changed to protect the innocent to "Eve White", "Eve Black" and "Jane". The film follows her doctors' attempts to learn her personalities, help her deal with the different people struggling in one body, and ultimately help them merge into a healthy human being. Woodward won a Best Actress UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for her performance.

* WouldHurtAChild: Eve Black tries to strangle 4-year-old Bonnie at one point.

If you want the trope named after the movie, see TheThreeFacesOfEve.

!! Provides Examples Of:

* BasedOnATrueStory: With the results carefully edited to make her psychiatrists look good. Years later she (real name [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Costner_Sizemore Chris Costner-Sizemore]]) wrote her own autobiography. Creator/SissySpacek wanted to make it into a film, but 20th Century Fox claimed it owned all rights to all versions of Chris' life story in perpetuity.[[note]]Spacek later found out Fox had been planning to remake ''Three Faces of Eve'' as a ''comedy''!, with Creator/LilyTomlin.[[/note]] Chris' doctor had signed her legal rights away, and she& had put her three "Eve" names on the contract without [[ReadTheFinePrint Reading The Fine Print]]. In '89 she [[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/07/movies/the-real-eve-sues-to-film-the-rest-of-her-story.html sued]], and won.

* SplitPersonalityMerge: The goal of her therapy.

* Sexophone: The soundtrack features this when Eve Black has emerged.

* SexySaxophone: The soundtrack features this when Eve Black has emerged.

'''''The Three Faces of Eve''''' is a 1957 film starring Joanne Woodward as a woman with multiple personalities, names changed to protect the innocent to "Eve White", "Eve Black" and "Jane". The film follows her doctors' attempts to learn her personalities, help her deal with the different people struggling in one body, and ultimately help them merge into a healthy human being. Woodward won a Best Actress UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for her performance.

* BasedOnATrueStory: With the results carefully edited to make her psychiatrists look good. Years later the woman (real name Chris) sued, and won.

* SplitPersonality: Eve manifests three distinct personalities. Her real life counterpart supposedly had quite a few more.

'''''The Three Faces of Eve''''' is a 1957 film starring Joanne Woodward as a woman with multiple personalities, names changed to protect the innocent to "Eve White", "Eve Black" and "Jane". The film follows her doctors' attempts to learn her personalities, help her deal with the different people struggling in one body, and ultimately help them merge into a healthy human being. Woodward won a Best Actress AcademyAward for her performance.

'''''The Three Faces of Eve''''' is a 1957 film starring Joanne Woodward as a woman with multiple personalities, names changed to protect the innocent to "Eve White", "Eve Black" and "Jane". The film follows her doctors' attempts to learn her personalities, help her deal with the different people struggling in one body, and ultimately help them merge into a healthy human being.

''The Three Faces Of Eve'' is a 1957 film starring Joanne Woodward as a woman with multiple personalities, names changed to protect the innocent to "Eve White", "Eve Black" and "Jane". The film follows her doctors' attempts to learn her personalities, help her deal with the different people struggling in one body, and ultimately help them merge into a healthy human being.

''The Three Faces Of Eve'' is a 1957 film about a woman with multiple personalities, names changed to protect the innocent to Eve White, Eve Black and Jane. The film follows her Doctors' attempts to learn her personalities, help her deal with the different people struggling in one body, and ultimately help them merge into a healthy human being.

* SplitPersonalityMerge: The goal of her therapy.
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: Well, considering where the [[TropeNamer trope name]] came from...

If you want the trope named after the movie, see ThreeFacesOfEve.

''The Three Faces Of Eve'' is a 1957 film about a woman with multiple personalities, names changed to protect the innocent to Eve White (child), Eve Black (seductress) and Jane.

* BasedOnATrueStory: With the results carefully edited to make her psychiatrists look good. Years later the woman (real name Chris) sued, and won.