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All About Eve

United States

1950

138 Min
Black and White
1.37:1
French, English
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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DIR Joseph L. Mankiewicz

PROD Darryl F. Zanuck

SCR Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Erich Kästner, Mary Orr

DP Milton Krasner

CAST Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Ritter, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates, Walter Hampden

ED Barbara McLean

MUSIC Alfred Newman

SOUND W.D. Flick, Roger Heman Sr.

Cannes (In Competition): Best Actress, Special Jury Prize, Berlinale (Special Screenings)

Synopsis

Aspiring actress Eve Harrington maneuvers her way into the lives of Broadway star Margo Channing, playwright Lloyd Richards and director Bill Sampson. This classic story of ambition and betrayal has become part of American folklore. Bette Davis claims to have based her character on the persona of film actress Talullah Bankhead. Davis’ line “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night” is legendary, but, in fact, all of the film’s dialog sparkles with equal brilliance. —IMDb

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA’s American distributor at the time (1928). He became a dialoguist, then a screenwriter on numerous Paramount productions in Hollywood, most of them Jack Oakie vehicles. Still in his 20s, he produced first-class MGM films, including The Philadelphia Story (1940). Having left Metro after a dispute with studio chief Louis B. Mayer over Judy Garland, he then worked for Darryl F. Zanuck at 20th Century-Fox, producing The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), when Ernst Lubitsch’s illness first brought him to the director’s chair for Dragonwyck (1946). Mankiewicz directed 20 films in a 26-year period, successfully attempted every kind of movie from Shakespeare adaptation to western, from urban sociological drama to musical, from epic film with thousands of extras to a two-character picture. A Letter to Three Wives (1949… read more

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Christopher

29Jan12

One of the greatest of all movies. I couldn't help but draw comparisons between Bette Davis and Kate Winslett. There is something about both of their acting styles that is strikingly similar...

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Kristility

6Jan12

Bette Davis...I think that about says it all. Adore.

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Jadranka Popovic

2Dec11

Fasten your seatbelts it's going to be a bumpy night.

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Marta

5Nov11

Lasts too long and gets predictable, yet the last thirty minutes save it. Especially the last scene: so powerful.

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ALL ABOUT EVE

By Daniel A. DiCenso on September 4, 2011

All about Eve, which swept away the Academy Awards in 1950, is the story about two actresses (in different senses) who can no longer differentiate between theater and reality. Eve Harrington (Anne…  read review

(Not) All About Eve

By Cremild​o on May 26, 2010

Mesmo tendo triunfado sobre o imorredouro Crepúsculo dos Deuses na pomposa festa do Oscar, este drama com requintes de comédia irônica trai um quê de antiquado em sua branda apresentação cênica, recostando…  read review

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By Sudarsh​an R. on October 3, 2009

This is one of the most mature and artistically ambitious films ever to win the Oscars. It’s often downgraded in favour of SUNSET BLVD. because the Billy Wilder is supposedly more cinematic while Mankiewicz…  read review

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By J. Ridicul​ous on June 8, 2009

Mankiewicz’s script is one of the most celebrated examples of wit and quality in the history of film, and the film made from it positively drips with venom even as it sparkles. The film is the story…  read review

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