| | All About Eve DVD (1 Customer Review)
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Thriller Movies, Suspense Videos, Recommended, Classic, Essential Cinema, Rivalry, Character Study, AFI Top 100 (1997), AFI Top 100, AFI Top 100 Movie Quotes, Stage Play, AFI Top 50 Villains, Vanity Fair 50 Greatest Films Of All Time | | Starring | Bette Davis, George Sanders, Anne Baxter, Gary Merrill, Celeste Holm, Marilyn Monroe, lma Ritter, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates, Walter Hampden, Randy Stuart, Eddie Fisher, Eugene Borden, Steven Geray, Craig Hill | | Director | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | | Composer | Alfred Newman | | Costume Designer | Edith Head, Charles LeMaire | | Director of Photography | Milton R. Krasner | | Editor | Barbara McLean | | Makeup | Ben Nye | | Producer | Darryl F. Zanuck
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Black & White; Standard Screen; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Soundtrack Spanish; English Subtitles An unforgettable, acerbic look behind the scenes of New York theater, ALL ABOUT EVE depicts the glory days, even as it reveals its denizens' naked ambition as they stand always-in-the-ready to topple the current talent and step into the limelight. Bette Davis mesmerizes as Margo Channing, leading dame of the New York stage until she is pushed aside by a fresh-faced fan who becomes her understudy, the duplicitous Eve (Anne Baxter). Eve's humble background and eager innocence fools all while she subtly digs in her claws, tearing Margo from her friends and colleagues as she desperately grasps her chance for stardom. Wit and sarcasm, though touched with pathos, reign supreme as the determined diva and diva-in-training duke it out. George Sanders as the viperish theater columnist is oily perfection, winning an Oscar for his portrayal. The film won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes for director-writer Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Both Davis and Baxter were nominated for Best Actress Oscars for their superb
performances.
Given that she throws tantrums, gets intoxicated, and pushes people away when she needs them the most, it's a wonder New York theater star Margo Channing has any true friends. But when Eve Harrington, Margo's young and innocent-seeming protégée, schemes to gain both the affection of Margo's friends and a starring role originally written for Margo, the actress discovers just who is in her corner--and who is not. Released in 1950, ALL ABOUT EVE's power radiates undimmed through the years. The role of aging stage star Margo Channing is considered by many to be the best of Bette Davis's career, as Davis reveals and conceals Margo's vulnerabilities with a skill seldom seen onscreen. Anne Baxter is also marvelous as the subtle Eve, whose glowing enthusiasm masks a cold, calculated ambition. Both actresses garnered Best Actress Oscar nominations, and the film in its entirety took 14 nominations, winning seven of them, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. George Sanders was awarded Best Supporting Actor for his biting portrayal of potent, nasty theater critic Addison DeWitt. Consistently listed among the best films of all time, director-writer Joseph L. Mankiewicz's ALL ABOUT EVE shouldn't be missed; the acting, writing, and directing are unequivocally brilliant. ALL ABOUT EVE is number 16 on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.
ALL ABOUT EVE was nominated for a record-setting 14 Academy Awards; it won seven.
ALL ABOUT EVE was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1990. All About Eve Quotes/Excerpts: "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night."--Margo Channing (Bette Davis).
"That's all television is, dear--just auditions."--Addison DeWitt (George Sanders) to Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe)
"That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability... you're an improbable person, Eve, but so am I. We have that in common. Also a contempt for humanity, an inability to love or be loved, insatiable ambition--and talent. We deserve each other." --DeWitt to Eve (Anne Baxter)
"The bed looks like a dead animal act."--Birdie (Thelma Ritter)
"What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end!"--Birdie
"I have lived in the theater as a Trappist monk lives in his faith. In it I toil not, nor do I spin. I am a critic and a commentator. I am essential to the theater--as ants to a picnic, as the boll weevil to a cotton field."--DeWitt
"Everybody has a heart--except for some people."--Channing All About Eve Reviews: "...One of Hollywood's ultimate valentines to the Great White Way --...a valentine laced with poison..." -- Rating: A
-- Glenn Kenny, Entertainment Weekly "...Davis was a character, an icon with a grand style..."
-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "...Line for quotable line, quite simply the best-written Hollywood movie ever..."
-- Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly "This acid-tongued grande dame of the theatah gave us our first glimpse of malignant narcissism and neediness run amok..."
-- Premiere Staff, Premiere "[I]t's witty, literate, cruel, devastating."
-- Chris Roberts, Uncut "It's hard to think of a more celebrated backstage drama in Hollywood history, and the script bristles with acerbic wit."
-- Matthew Leyland, Sight and Sound 5 stars out of 5 -- "[R]ousing and endlessly amusing....Acutely relevant in these days of transient celebrity."-- David Parkinson, Empire All About Eve | List Price | $19.98 (You save $6.43) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1950 | | All Time Sales Rank |  50006  | | CD Universe Part number | 7612439 | | Catalog number | 2250732 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Apr 08, 2008 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 138 Minutes | | Additional Info | Full Frame; Dubbed; Remastered; Subtitled | | Movie Details | B&W; Full Frame; Dubbed; Remastered; Subtitled; 2-Disc Set; Bette Davis Centenary Collection |
All About Eve Movie Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  one of the best movies I've ever seen
All about eve is a great film about an aging actress named margo channing (bette davis) who is at the prime of her career. But along comes a seemingly helpless young woman (anne baxter) by the name of Eve Harington who is a big fan of Margo's. She slowly starts to take over Margo's life and becomes an actress of her own. Joseph l. Maniewicz's screenplay is filled with dazzling ,memorable dialogue that is brilliantly delivered by the entire cast. Davis is superb,brilliantly capturing Margo's increasing insecurity about getting older and is delightfully bitchy but also makes the character sympathetic. Baxter is sensational as eve and george sanders won a much deserved oscar for his fabulous performance as a cynical,silver tounged theatre critic who helps eve rise to stardom and Thelma Ritter is terrific as Margo's maid who see's through eve at first sight. This film also won oscars for best picture,best director,best screenplay,best costume design,and best sound recording (the latter category no longer exists) but bette davis lost best actress to Judy Holiday in born yesterday. I have not seen Holiday's performance but come on! Davis's performance was the role of a lifetime and it is lame that the academy didn't recognize that. Baxter was also nominated and so was gloria swanson for sunset boulevard. Although I love sunset boulevard, I enjoy all about eve more but both movies are must see films that are two of my favorite movies. Enjoy!
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Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  Great movie!
Saw on regular TV and I had to have a copy in my classic collection.
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Bette Davis at her best.
Great dialog. Fast paced.
I forgot how black & white is so interesting.
Played it 4 times in 2 weeks.
Would recommend to all ages.
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This review is for a different format. I'm In love With This Film
I'm crazy about this film,I'm obssessed with it, I'm in love with it, and if there's a greater emotion that that I have it for this film -it's that great!
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This review is for a different format. "a classic"
"a masterpiece;great acting,great directing,incredible dialogue.the best written screenplay of all time.one of the best movies ever.a must see for movie lovers and young screen-writers."
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All About Eve DVD 2-Disc Set
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Mono - English, Spanish, French
Stereo - English
Disc 1: ALL ABOUT EVE - Theatrical Presentation
Additional Release Material:
Isolated Audio Track: Musical Score
Audio Commentary:
1. Celeste Holm - Star; Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Director; Ken Geist - Author/Film Biographer; Christopher Mankiewicz - Director's Son
2. Sam Staggs - Author/Film Historian
Disc 2: ALL ABOUT EVE - Supplemental Material
Additional Release Material:
Behind the Scenes: "AMC Backstory: ALL ABOUT EVE"
Bonus Footage: "MovieTone News: 1951 Academy Awards Honor Best Film Achievements, 1951 Hollywood Attends Gala Premiere of "All About Eve," Holiday Magazine Awards, Look Magazine Awards"
Comparisons: Restoration Comparison
Featurette:
1. "Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz"
2. "The Secret of Sarah Siddons"
Documentary:
1. "Joseph L. Mankiewicz: A Personal Journey"
2. "The Real Eve"
Trailers:
1. Bette Davis Promotion
2. Ann Baxter Promotion
3. Theatrical Trailer
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos
Galleries:
1. Theatrical Pressbook Gallery
2. Advertising Gallery
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