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Cast
- Joanne WoodwardEve White / Eve Black / Jane
- David WayneRalph White
- Lee J. CobbDoctor Curtis Luther
- Edwin JeromeDoctor Francis Day
- Alena MurraySecretary
- Nancy KulpMrs. Black
- Douglas SpencerMr. Black
- Terry Ann RossBonnie White
- Ken ScottEarl
- Mimi GibsonEve (as a child)
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Impossibly thin, porcelain-skinned Joanne Woodward exuded the perfect blend of vulnerability and confusion -- and sassiness and sex appeal -- in her demanding lead role (make that roles) in Nunnally Johnson's The Three Faces of Eve. [24 Oct 2004] - 75
Orlando Sentinel
The film's fascination is primarily a result of Woodward's crafty, painstaking depiction of the three personalities stemming from the same woman. [09 Nov 2003, p.9] - 70
The New York Times
It is written, produced and directed by Mr. Johnson with a clean documentary clarity, and played with superlative flexibility and emotional power by Joanne Woodward in the main role. - 60
The Independent
This 1950s Hollywood examination of mental illness won an Oscar for Joanne Woodward, who plays a frumpy housewife, a sultry seductress and an urban sophisticate, giving a virtuoso performance which manages to compensate for Nunnally Johnson's flat direction. [25 Jun 1999, p.21] - 60
The New Yorker
Shallow, but the gimmick is appealing, and Woodward's showmanship is very likable. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
What seemed steamy in 1957 — a reasonably frank look at mental disorder and repressed sexuality — is today the stuff of Oprah. - 50
Time Out
Based on a true case history of a schizophrenic - here a woman with three personalities: a slatternly housewife, a seductive flirt, and a smart, articulate woman - this is worthy but somewhat turgid and facile, a typically Hollywoodian account of mental illness. - 50
Variety
It is frequently an intriguing, provocative motion picture, but director Nunnally Johnson's treatment of the subject matter makes the film neither fish nor foul. Johnson shifts back and forth - striving for comedy at one point and presenting a documentary case history at another.
