Based on a novel by Shirley Jackson, Lizzie manifests a distinctly fifties fascination with multiple personality disorder: The Three Faces of Eve was released later the same year. Eleanor Parker stars as timid, troubled museum secretary Elizabeth-as well as wild, sluttish Lizzie and good-natured, well-adjusted Beth, all competing for control of a single body and mind. Blondell is delightful as Elizabeth's “scabrous whiskey-guzzling aunt. . . . There was not a shred of vanity in Joan's performance as she shuffled around in an unflattering house robe or dowdy print dresses. . . . She was pleased with her performance in Lizzie, calling it her best since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (Matthew Kennedy).