All About Eve

"It's all about women... and their men!"

1950 2h 19m EN

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BANGER

★8.1TMDB · 1,769

Drama

Synopsis

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From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

“It's all about women... and their men!”

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Cast

Bette Davis
Margo Channing
Anne Baxter
Eve Harrington
George Sanders
Addison DeWitt
Celeste Holm
Karen Richards
Gary Merrill
Bill Sampson
Hugh Marlowe
Lloyd Richards
Thelma Ritter
Birdie Coonan
Gregory Ratoff
Max Fabian

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Mary Orr
Languages: English, French
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $1.4M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 6.0× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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76 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, shot by Milton Krasner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Alfred Newman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Barbara McLean shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Bette Davis and Anne Baxter and George Sanders carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Joseph L. Mankiewicz directs. Milton Krasner behind the camera. Alfred Newman scores. Barbara McLean cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, French.

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Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $1.4M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Made its money back 6.0× over at the box office.
376 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
4Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.
5Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, shot by Milton Krasner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Alfred Newman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Barbara McLean shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Bette Davis and Anne Baxter and George Sanders carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "It's all about women... and their men!".
10IMDB entry: tt0042192 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 12 themes, including "playwright", "hollywood", "black and white", "relationship".
12Released under 51 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Milton Krasner
Original score: Alfred Newman
Editing: Barbara McLean
Costume design: Edith Head
Makeup / hair: Ben Nye
Runtime: 139 min · 2h 19m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $1,400,000
Box office: $8,402,553
Return: 600% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: All About Eve (1950)

Awards

Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Director
National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Academy Award for Best Sound
Academy Award for Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White

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Andres Gomez2013-09-03
★ 10/10
This classic is a must with great dialogues and script with a great performance from Bette Davis.
JPV8522019-11-21
★ 8/10
Excellent performances by everyone, especially Bette Davis, Anne Baxter and George Sanders, which kept me captivated more so than the story, though the dialogue was amazing. Nothing fantastic all in all but still entertaining. 4.0/5
Filipe Manuel Neto2022-10-15
★ 10/10
Fasten your seat belts: this is one of the best films of the 20th century. There aren't many perfect movies: At least, I don't know many. However, this film is almost certainly one of them. The result of an ideal combination of factors, which harmoniously came together to make it a work of art, it is a timeless film that is as pleasantly watched today as it was fifty years ago. But when we talk about classic films, it's far from being one of the first to come to mind. What is the reason? It's hard to explain, but I feel like the film never really touched the hearts of the general public. The film deserves more attention these days and is worth seeing. I'm not one of those who measure the quality of a film by the awards it receives (although that is always an indicant to consider as to quality)... but the film is one of the most nominated for the Oscars, with fourteen nominations, something that has only rarely been equaled, and six statuettes won, including Best Picture. The film begins by showing us a ceremony in which an actress, Eve, receives an important award for her performance in the theater. Then, the action goes back a year to, in flashback, let us know everything that happened until that moment. And that's how we follow the rise of Eve, an aspiring actress from obscure origins who manages to arouse the pity and sympathy of Margo Channing, then the biggest star of the stages. The film explores the two characters well, and the way they relate to each other. Eve is quite ambiguous for part of the movie, and even after we see the darker side of the character. Margo seems like a very insufferable shrew, but the character has a good heart, hidden under tons of ego and big theater diva tics. Based on a short story and intelligently developed by Joseph Mankiewicz, the director who will ensure the script, the film has an excellent cast and memorable dialogues, full of quotable phrases that we've probably heard somewhere. The cast is powerfully led by Bette Davis, an extremely talented, charismatic and full of personality actress who gave her all in this film, managing to achieve here, in my perspective, her work of glory. The difference between Margo, the character, and Davis, the real person, is so thin that you can almost say that the actress has taken the character and brought it a little bit into her own life. It's a truly superb dramatic exercise, and the same applies to the one given to us by its co-star, Anne Baxter, who plays Eve. The way they both collaborate in their scenes is mesmerizing. I also really liked Celeste Holm, George Sanders and Hugh Marlowe, even though the men in this cast aren't as strong as their female counterparts. Being a black and white film, this might be a bit off-putting to current audiences, but it's not something I see as a problem. On the contrary, I really liked the cinematography and I think the film has a lot of elegance and visual beauty. There are some scenes and camera movements that I found strange, but I think some are really unusual in films from this era. As for the costumes, I really liked the way they fit the story, and some of the actresses' costumes and dresses are pieces worthy of haute couture. The film has some implicit humor, which can escape the most inattentive, like that piano piece that Davis, intoxicated, listens to several times, later calling it “cheap sentimentality”.