All About Eve (1950)


Anne Baxter         Eve Harrington
Celeste Holm        Karen Richards
Hugh Marlowe        Lloyd Richards
Thelma Ritter       Birdie
Randy Stuart
Craig Hill
Leland Harris
William Pullen
Claude Stroud
Eugene Borden
Helen Mowery
Steven Geray
Bess Flowers
Bette David

Directed by:         Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Produced by:         Darryl F. Zanuck


Broadway legend Margo Channing, aging but not gracefully, has everything: a successful career, close friends, 
a man who loves her. She also has a 'fan' named Eve Harrington, who manages to worm her way into Margo's life, 
in order to "study her like a blueprint". Eve's sweet facade is soon seen through by a number of people, most 
quickly by theater critic Addison deWitt, who decides to become her mentor. Eve achieves her goal of Broadway 
stardom, leaving a trail of unhappiness, but ultimately contentment, behind her.

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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.

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The ambitious Eve Harrington gets close to the great and temperamental stage artist Margo Channing and her friends 
Karen Richards and her husband, the play-writer Lloyd Richards; her boyfriend and director Bill Simpson; and the 
producer Max Fabian. Everybody, except the cynical critic Addison DeWitt, believes that Eve is only a naive, 
humble and simple obsessed fan of Margo and they try to help her. However, Eve is indeed a cynical and manipulative 
snake that uses the lives of Margo and her friends to reach her objectives in the theater business.

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Stage star Margo Channing is friend to playwright Lloyd Richards and his wife Karen, in love with director Bill 
Samson, and the idol of Eve Harrington who becomes her secretary-aide. Eve begins to dominate: she sends Bill 
Margo's birthday wishes and arranges a party for him, at which point Margo explodes. Eve becomes Margo's understudy 
and, when Margo misses a performance, critic Addison DeWitt gives her rave reviews while making acerbic remarks about 
aging actresses like Margo. At Margo and Bill's engagement party Eve tries to force Karen to get her the lead in 
Lloyd's new play. Margo tells Lloyd she is going to retire. Eve gets the part but Addison reveals to her he knows 
the lies and schemes she used to get where she is.

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Broadway legend Margo Channing, aging but not gracefully, has everything: a successful career, close friends, a man 
who loves her. She also has a 'fan' named Eve Harrington, who manages to worm her way into Margo's life, in order to 
"study her like a blueprint". Eve's sweet facade is soon seen through by a number of people, most quickly by theater 
critic Addison deWitt, who decides to become her mentor. Eve achieves her goal of Broadway stardom, leaving a trail 
of unhappiness, but ultimately contentment, behind her.