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Mar 19, 2020 · It is precisely because the real story of All About Eve is not the particular, indeed now rather old-fashioned story of a contest for supremacy between Broadway actresses (one on the wane, one on the rise) but the eternal, universal story of sibling rivalry (even that between supposed “sisters”, as women who are close friends often describe ...
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All About Eve, American film, released in 1950, that delighted critics with its acid wit and that starred Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, and George Sanders. The movie received six Academy Awards, including that for best picture.
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The film opens at a theatre awards banquet held by the fictional Sarah Siddons Society. The theatre critic Addison DeWitt (played by Sanders) narrates the scene and introduces the main characters: Karen Richards (Celeste Holm); her husband, playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe); the theatrical producer Max Fabian (Gregory Ratoff); aging star Margo Channing (Davis); and the recipient of the award for best actress, Eve Harrington (Baxter). The movie then recounts Eve’s rise to stardom.
Margo is performing in Fabian’s play Aged in Wood, which is directed by her lover, Bill Sampson (Gary Merrill). One evening Karen, who is a close friend of Margo’s, brings the star-struck Eve into Margo’s dressing room. Eve tells a moving story of the genesis of her devotion to Margo. Everyone is captivated except Margo’s maid and companion, Birdie (Thelma Ritter), who is openly skeptical. Margo invites Eve to live in her home and become her assistant. Eve makes herself invaluable to Margo, but Margo begins to heed Birdie’s warnings and soon comes to find Eve’s attention unsettling. Eve plans a birthday party for Bill, and Margo becomes jealous of Bill’s high opinion of Eve. It is at this party that Margo delivers the line, “Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” DeWitt attends the party with his protégé, Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe), and he is introduced to Eve. Eve manipulates Margo’s friends into making her Margo’s understudy (behind Margo’s back). Margo is enraged when she finds out, but Karen, Lloyd, and Bill are appalled by Margo’s attitude toward Eve. Karen arranges for Margo to miss a performance of Aged in Wood so that Eve can go on in her stead. Forewarned, Eve invites theatre critics, and her performance is a triumph.
•Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
•Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
•Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
•Music: Alfred Newman
•Bette Davis (Margo Channing)
•Anne Baxter (Eve Harrington)
•George Sanders (Addison DeWitt)
•Celeste Holm (Karen Richards)
•Hugh Marlowe (Lloyd Richards)
•Gary Merrill (Bill Sampson)
•Picture*
•Lead actress (Anne Baxter)
•Lead actress (Bette Davis)
•Supporting actor* (George Sanders)
•Supporting actress (Celeste Holm)
•Supporting actress (Thelma Ritter)
- Pat Bauer
The original short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr, appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine in May 1946, and was produced as a radio drama for NBC. IMDB ; The short story was based on a true incident Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner (often called the "Garbo of the stage") told Orr about the 1943 Broadway production of The Two Mrs. Carrolls ...
Jul 15, 2020 · Written and directed by the American Jewish filmmaker Joseph L. Mankiewicz, “All About Eve” was adapted from a short story inspired by an ambitious young actress who exploited the Austrian Jewish...
- BETTE DAVIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CLAUDETTE COLBERT. The winsome star of It Happened One Night suffered a back injury while filming Three Came Home, and had to drop out of All About Eve.
- IT’S STILL THE ONLY FILM IN HISTORY TO EARN FOUR FEMALE ACTING OSCAR NOMINATIONS. Bette Davis and Anne Baxter were nominated for Best Actress, making them rivals with the Academy just as they were in the film.
- THE WORKING TITLE WAS BEST PERFORMANCE. All About Eve is a fine title, but it would have been fun to hear things like: “George Sanders won the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Best Performance.”
- IT WAS BASED ON A TRUE STORY. Big surprise, a story about backstabbing in Hollywood actually happened. Elisabeth Bergner, a European stage and screen actress, hired a young fan as an assistant in the early 1940s, only to have the girl try to steal her career.
All About Eve is based on a short story, 'The Wisdom of Eve', written by American author Mary Orr [1910-2006]. It was first published in Cosmopolitan magazine in May 1946.
Jan 1, 2001 · Staggs reveals everything about the movie--from the famous European actress Margo Channing was based on to the hot-blooded romance on-set between Bette Davis and costar Gary Merrill, from the jump-start the movie gave Marilyn Monroe's career to the capstone it put on director Joseph L. Mankeiwicz's.
