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Lizzie

  • 19571957
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  • 1h 21m
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6.3/10
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Lizzie (1957)
During the 1950s, a Los Angeles psychiatrist uses hypnosis to treat a 25 year old woman who's suffering from multiple personality disorder.
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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.
IMDb RATING
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619
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    • Hugo Haas
    • Mel Dinelli(screenplay)
    • Shirley Jackson(novel "The Bird's Nest")
  • Stars
    • Eleanor Parker
    • Richard Boone
    • Joan Blondell
    • Hugo Haas
    • Mel Dinelli(screenplay)
    • Shirley Jackson(novel "The Bird's Nest")
  • Stars
    • Eleanor Parker
    • Richard Boone
    • Joan Blondell
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    • 18User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
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    Joan Blondell, Richard Boone, and Eleanor Parker in Lizzie (1957)
    Ric Roman and Eleanor Parker in Lizzie (1957)
    Eleanor Parker in Lizzie (1957)
    Eleanor Parker in Lizzie (1957)
    Richard Boone in Lizzie (1957)
    Joan Blondell and Hugo Haas in Lizzie (1957)
    Ric Roman and Eleanor Parker in Lizzie (1957)
    Lizzie (1957)
    Richard Boone and Eleanor Parker in Lizzie (1957)
    Joan Blondell, Richard Boone, and Eleanor Parker in Lizzie (1957)
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    Eleanor Parker
    Eleanor Parker
    • Elizabeth Richmond
    Richard Boone
    Richard Boone
    • Dr. Neal Wright
    Joan Blondell
    Joan Blondell
    • Morgan James
    Hugo Haas
    Hugo Haas
    • Walter Brenner
    Ric Roman
    Ric Roman
    • Johnny Valenzo
    Dorothy Arnold
    Dorothy Arnold
    • Elizabeth's Mother
    John Reach
    John Reach
    • Robin
    Marion Ross
    Marion Ross
    • Ruth Seaton
    Johnny Mathis
    Johnny Mathis
    • Piano Singer
    Fred Aldrich
    Fred Aldrich
    • Bar Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Jan Englund
    • Helen Jameson
    • (uncredited)
    Pat Goldin
    • Man in Bar
    • (uncredited)
    Karen Green
    • Elizabeth (age 9)
    • (uncredited)
    Michael Mark
    Michael Mark
    • Bartender
    • (uncredited)
    Dick Paxton
    • Waiter
    • (uncredited)
    Carl Sklover
    Carl Sklover
    • Bar Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Gene Walker
    • Guard
    • (uncredited)
    Carol Wells
    • Elizabeth (age 13)
    • (uncredited)
      • Hugo Haas
      • Mel Dinelli(screenplay)
      • Shirley Jackson(novel "The Bird's Nest")
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    • Trivia
      Shirley 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".)
    • Goofs
      At the bar, the Piano Singer (Johnny Mathis) is singing at the piano, and Robin is there with another girl. In one shot, smoke is rising from a cigarette in an ashtray on the piano. In the next shot, from over the singer's right shoulder, no smoke is coming from the ashtray. Then, in the last shot at the bar, a closeup of Mathis, smoke again can be seen rising; this all occurs during the same song.
    • 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.

    • Soundtracks
      It'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]

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    7/10
    Tawdry but effective suspense film about Multiple Personality Disorder
    For whatever it's worth, Lizzie is the best movie Hugo Haas ever directed. And that's not a left-handed compliment. Based on a Shirley Jackson novel, Lizzie remains an effective, if tawdry, glimpse into Multiple Personality Disorder, a controversial syndrome that understandably lends itself to exploitation (hence the suspense mechanisms of the plot). But Lizzie ends up rendering better justice to its subject than the more prestigious The Three Faces of Eve of the same year.

    Eleanor Parker plays Lizzie. She also plays Elizabeth and Beth, two other facets of her character's (characters'?) fractured psyche. By day, she's mousy Elizabeth, boring her fellow-workers at a museum with complaints about constant headaches; she also keeps finding poison-pen letters from somebody named Lizzie. At closing time, she goes home to the house (a stark horror) she shares with her aunt (Joan Blondell), who slouches around in a horse-blanket bathrobe while killing still another bottle of bourbon. They cohabit in an uneasy truce, broken by unseemly episodes such as Blondell's being called, from the top of a steep, shadowy staircase, a `drunken old slut.'

    Another of Elizabeth's litany of complaints is that she can't sleep. Little does she know that live-wire Lizzie emerges at night, slapping on the makeup with a trowel and then heading out to a piano bar where Johnny Mathis sings. There she guzzles the bourbon she claims to hate (hence those headaches) and picks up men, including a handyman from the museum whom she doesn't recognize next morning.

    When Blondell catches her red-handed (ungrateful Lizzie polished off the bottle), kindly neighbor Haas suggests that maybe it's time, as Ann Landers would have phrased it, to `seek professional help.' Richard Boone seems an unlikely candidate for a psychiatrist, but he proves a surprisingly reassuring and compassionate one. Using hypnosis, he uncovers the three layers of his patient's personality. The problem lies in coaxing the well-adjusted Beth (whom nobody has ever seen or heard) out of her psychological shell....

    Near the end, Haas overreaches briefly with a dream sequence that recalls the loony phantasmagoria of Glen or Glenda, Ed Wood's autobiographical essay on the torment of the cross-dresser. And of course Lizzie's tidy wrap-up, in uplifting Hollywood fashion, is so much dollar-book Freud. That aside, the movie draws upon on a more valid explanation of MPD than does the de-fanged and disingenuous The Three Faces of Eve. Not until Sybil, a hair-raising 1976 TV movie, would a more candid exploration of the traumatic roots of the syndrome appear, for which Sally Field copped an Emmy. Small wonder: Parts like this are like catnip for scenery-chewers and rarely fail to wow critics (Joanne Woodward won an Oscar for her Eve). It all but defies the order of nature that Susan Hayward didn't, somehow, manage to grab the role of Lizzie. But then again, she always played Lizzie.
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    • Aug 13, 2004

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    • Release date
      • January 24, 1958 (Finland)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - 900 Exposition Boulevard, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Bryna Productions
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    • 1 hour 21 minutes
      • Black and White

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