The Three Faces of Eve
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- 1957
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This is a true story.
How often have you seen that statement
at the beginning of a picture?
It sometimes means
that there was a man named Napoleon,
but that any similarity between what he did
in life and what he's going to do in this movie
is strictly miraculous.
Well, this is a true story,
about a sweet,
rather baffled young housewife,
who, in 1951, in her hometown in Georgia,
suddenly frightened her husband
by behaving very unlike herself.
There's nothing unique in that.
We all have moods.
We all have a secret yen to behave
like somebody we particularly admire.
A modern writer has said that inside every
fat man, a thin man is struggling to get out.
Well, in a literal and terrifying sense,
inside this demure young woman
two very vivid and different personalities
were battling for the mastery of her character.
She was, in fact, a case of what is called
"multiple personality",
something that all psychiatrists have
read about and very few have ever seen.
Certainly not Dr Thigpen and Dr Cleckley,
of the Medical College of Georgia,
who one day were confronted with a woman
who had one personality more than Dr Jekyll.
Their account of the case was delivered to
the American Psychiatric Association in 1953,
and it's already a classic
of psychiatric literature.
from the imagination of a fiction writer.
The truth itself was fabulous enough.
And all the episodes you're going to see
happened to this girl they call Eve White,
and much of the dialogue is taken from the
clinical record of the doctor we call Dr Luther.
The date is August 20th, 1951.
(woman) Come in.
- Mrs White?
- Yes, ma'am.
- Dr Luther.
- Yes?
Mrs White is here. The lady
Dr Watkins wrote to you about.
- Ask her to come in, will you?
- Yes, Doctor.
Will you come in, please?
- How do you do, Mrs White?
- How do you do?
- Come in. Sit here, will you?
- Thank you.
Mr White.
Let's see.
Thank you.
Dr Watkins is a very old friend of mine.
How long have you known him?
He's the doctor we go to.
He's a very able man. Very able.
Let's see. He says you've been troubled
with very bad headaches.
Yes, sir, terrible ones.
- And some sort of spells?
- Yes, sir.
What kind of spell?
I don't know. l'm not exactly sure.
What happens when you have one?
Is it, uh, what they say, uh... amnesia?
Well, amnesia means loss of memory.
Is that what happens to you?
Yes, I guess that's it.
- How often does this happen?
- And the headaches, what about them?
- Same thing.
- They happen at the same time?
- Yes, sir.
First I get this terrible headache
and then I get this spell.
Now, when you say "spell",
do you mean you faint or anything like that?
No, sir, it's not like faintin'. It's more like...
Well, it's like the other day I was playing
out in the back yard with Bonnie
and all of a sudden I got this splitting
headache and then the next thing I knew,
I mean, the next thing I was conscious of,
it was the next morning.
- Who's Bonnie?
- Oh, that's my little girl.
- How old is she?
- She's four and a half.
- Your only child?
- Yes, sir.
- I lost another baby about four months ago.
- I see.
And you have no recollection
at all of what happened?
Where you were or what you did between
the time you were playing in the back yard
and the next morning?
No, sir, I don't.
Were you at home at the time?
I was there as soon as
I come home from work.
Yes?
I didn't see much different in her.
Well, did you see any difference?
I guess not. Nothing you could say
was really different.
For several weeks Mrs White was
greatly helped by the psychiatric treatment.
She had fewer headaches
and they were less severe.
She had no more blackout spells -
at least, none that she was aware of.
But not quite a year later,
several things happened that showed her
to be in urgent need of help.
around noontime of a spring day in 1952.
Anybody home?
Oh, hey. Just a minute
while I hang out the wash.
- Where's Bonnie?
- Here I am.
- Hi, sugar.
- l'm wearing Mom's shoes.
Mommy will tan your britches
if she finds you.
This one hurts.
- Where'd you get these?
- They're Mommy's.
- Where'd she get'em?
- The postman brought them today
- with the dresses.
- What dresses?
On the bed.
Evie?
- Let me have them.
- No! I wanna wear 'em. Mommy said I could!
Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!
What's the idea of all this?
Didn't you buy'em?
What do you mean, didn't I buy'em?
Didn't you?
No, I thought you did.
I thought it was sweet, but I...
It's got your name on it.
You know I wouldn't buy
anything like that, Ralph.
- $218.
- That's what I mean, they cost that much.
- Where'd they get your name?
- I don't know. I thought you did it.
I mean, I thought you bought 'em for me.
But I was gonna make you take 'em back
because I knew it was too much.
l'll say it's too much.
You had me scared there for a minute.
I guess they just must have made
some kind of mistake, that's all.
Well, l'll call'em.
- Is this the Beehive Store?
- Yes, sir. Is there anrthing I can do for you?
- Is this Miss Effie?
- Who is this?
It's Ralph White.
For goodness sakes, I thought you and Evie
would be on your way to Hollywood by now.
- Hollywood?
- With all those pretty things Evie bought.
how she looks in those dresses.
Especially that lilac one.
l'm bringing'em all back this afternoon.
(Eve) Bonnie?
- Come on in, honey, and wash your hands.
- Tell her not to come in yet.
- What's the matter?
- Tell her l'll call her.
Never mind, honey.
l'll call you when we're ready.
Shut that door.
Hurry up.
Come here.
Will you come here?
I got a good mind to slap your face.
- What'd they say?
- What kind of dope do you think I am?
I don't know what you're talkin' about.
What did you think I was gonna do? Nothing?
Let you get away with it? 218 bucks!
- I didn't buy'em.
- You mean Miss Effie Blandford's a liar?
- She said I bought 'em?
- She didn't say nothin' else.
I don't see how she could.
You mean to tell me
you didn't try on those dresses?
I haven't been in the Beehive in months.
Sometimes I don't know whether
you're crazy or you think I am.
Are they gonna take 'em back?
l'll pack'em up for you.
- l'll do it.
- Let me.
You heard me. I said l'd do it.
(Bonnie) l'm hungry, Mommy.
(screams)
Evie!
(shrieks)
It's all right, honey.
(wails)
It's OK. You'll be all right.
It's all right, honey.
Don't get up.
l'll kill you if you get up.
- I didn't do it.
- But I saw her.
I didn't do it.
How can she say a thing like that
when I saw her with my own eyes?
- You mean you don't remember doing it.
- I didn't do it.
- I suppose you didn't buy those clothes?
- l'd die before l'd hurt Bonnie.
things like that if they're not true?
- I love her too much.
- You wouldn't come home last month.
She went to Atlanta and then wouldn't come
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