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Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Ritter, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates, Walter Hampden, Randy Stuart, Craig Hill, Leland Harris, Barbara White. The Rundown. Introduction“The show must go on.”“No dear, Margo must go on.”Bette Davis was Hollywood royalty, so respected that she was named the very first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She was also so independent that she resigned when the Academy. After her resignation, studio head Darryl F. Zanuck said she would never work in Hollywood again. But there he was, eight years later, signing her to play the lead role of Margo Channing in All About Eve. It was a risky project, untouched for years by studios who were uneasy about its unflattering presentation of showbiz as a world of opportunistic, backstabbing scum. No business like it, indeed. The film was fittingly released the same year as Sunset Blvd., where Billy Wilder cast just as cynical a lens on the film industry. Mankiewicz), Best Screenplay (Mankiewicz) and Best Actor (George Sanders). Plot Summary. Based on “The Wisdom of Eve,” a Cosmopolitan short story and radio play by Mary Orr, the film opens at an awards show honoring Broadway star Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) with theater’s highest honor, the Sarah Siddons Award. Sitting around the banquet are all of Eve’s closest associates, the most important of whom is Margo Channing (Bette Davis), a Broadway legend who treats mink coats as if they were panchos and who at age 4. Rain- soaked and penniless, Eve is Margo’s biggest fan, having followed the tour all the way from San Francisco to New York and attending all the shows in standing room only. As Eve says, “If I didn’t see the play, I wouldn’t have anywhere else to go.”Admiring Eve’s ambition and devotion, Karen takes. Of course, Eve is thrilled to meet her idol, and after initial resistence, Margo comes to enjoy. Soon, Margo gets to feeling the same thing, recognizing Eve as a serious threat to her own aging career. Eve works her way up to become Margo’s understudy, and seizes the moment when Margo misses a performance, thanks to a practical joke by Karen meant as a necessary “boot in the rear.” With Margo stranded on the side of the road, Eve fills in and earns rave reviews from the very critics she personally invited to the show, most importantly Addison De. Witt. On a power streak, Eve decides she must also overtake Margo’s personal life, courting her main man Bill. Her coup de grace is to blackmail Karen into getting the part of Cora in Footsteps on the Ceiling, a play Lloyd wrote specifically for Margo. Turns out it doesn’t matter, as Margo has decided to marry Bill and no longer wants the part: “I’ve finally got a life to live. I don’t have to play parts I’m too old for just because I’ve got nothing to do with my nights.” Thus Eve gets the part, but her own undoing is upon her. Turns out De. Witt is every bit as conniving as Eve, digging up dirt on her naughty little past and using it to blackmail her as his mistress: “I’m Addison De. Witt. I’m nobody’s fool, least of all yours.” Having exposed her, De. Witt gets her to admit that she belongs to him, though we know he’ll drop her the minute a new starlett comes along, one in a new crop of eager understudies waiting anxiously in the wings. Screenplay. The Oscar- winning script allowed Joseph Mankiewicz to climb out from under the shadow of his older brother, Herman, who had earned an Oscar for writing one of the all- time great scripts in Citizen Kane (1. Ironically, Joseph had to compete at the Oscars against the man who had once replaced Herman as theater critic for The New Yorker, Charles Brackett, who co- wrote Sunset Blvd. To weigh two such masterful scripts the same year. Think about that for a second. In all the scripts that have ever been written, this is one of the the five best. Alas, the shadow of the older brother remains, for one spot ahead of Eve at #4 is Herman’s Kane. Like Kane, All About Eve revolutionized the sort of non- linear, fratured narrative structure to which we’ve become so accustomed. It was one of three phenomenal examples of fractured narratives that year, joining. We watch Margo go from snobby heel to sympathetic victim, and Eve from naive innocent to conniving bitch. It’s only natural that. I love you for some of them and in spite of others. I haven’t let those become too important. They’re part of your equipment for getting along in what is laughingly called our environment. You have to keep your teeth sharp, all right. But I will not have you sharpen them on me — or on Eve. Eve Harrington has never by word, look, thought or suggestion indicated anything to me but her adoration for you and her happiness at our being in love. And to intimate anything else doesn’t spell jealousy to me. It spells out paranoiac insecurity that you should be ashamed of. If you think that monologue. Except some people; ” “Nice speech, Eve. But I wouldn’t worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be; ” “We are all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night. Aren’t we honey?”For such crackling. I’d like a martini, very dry. BILL: I’ll get it. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” The line has since evolved into “a bumpy ride,” but it’s one we’ve all used, most of us not even knowing its origin. The sheer popularity of the line landed it as high as #9 on the AFI’s 1. Movie Quotes. Bette Davis Returns. The cattiness owes much to Davis, who unleashes the same fangs she sunk into Joan Crawford off screen, while flashing. Her best moment may come without dialogue entirely, as she storms down the theater aisle and swings the edge of her mink coat right over Max Fabian’s face. As film historian Tony Maietta said, “Bette Davis was not so much an actress as she was a force of nature. And woe to those who got in her path when she was on a mission.” (H)Still, her fiery moments are only part of the equation. She’s just as powerful delivering Mankiewicz’s most tender stuff, like this moment of self- realization shared with Karen in the backseat of a broken- down car: MARGO: Funny business, a woman’s career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you’ll need them again when you get back to being a woman. There’s one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not — being a woman. Sooner or later we’ve got to work at it, no matter how many careers we’ve had or wanted. And in the last analysis, nothing’s any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed and there he is. Without that you’re not a woman. Davis felt forever in debt to Mankiewicz, calling him a “genius” and “the man responsible for the greatest role of my career. He resurrected me from the dead. Once on the ballot, she was considered a shoe- in, but was upset by Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1. Colbert whom Mankiewicz originally wanted to play Margo Channing, until she broke her back on the set of. Nominations continued for Dark Victory (1. The Letter (1. 94. The Little Foxes (1. Now Voyager (1. 94. Mr. Skeffington (1. At this point, her career began to falter with box office flops, terrible material and an infamous clash with Jack Warner, causing her to leave Warner Bros. One has to smile at the thought of Davis sitting there at the Oscars, staring up at Holliday exactly the way Margo does Eve, knowing that she and she? It was no surprise that in 1. AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1. AFI named Davis the #2 female star of all time, behind only Katharine Hepburn. If you need any motivation to watch All About Eve. Davis was just one of five — count ’em —. Miniver (1. 94. 2), From Here to Eternity (1. On the Waterfront (1. Peyton Place (1. 95. Tom Jones (1. 96. Bonnie and Clyde (1. The Godfather Part II (1. Network (1. 97. 6). Of those five acting nominations, a record four went to actress, making. This split the vote enough for Judy Holliday to slide in for the win with. Zanuck had originally wanted Jeanne Craine for the part, but Mankiewicz pushed hard for Baxter, whom he said had just the right “bitch virtuosity.” (G) To these eyes, her performance has patches that are overdramatic and thus date the film. Still, in a weird way, it kind of works, if only because her character is that phony. Either way, Baxter created the AFI’s #2. Greatest Villain of All Time and was able to stand her ground next to Davis, who like in the film, was an established star by the time Baxter even got to Hollywood. Baxter came from a good crop, the granddaughter of Guggenheim architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and was a fitting cast for an aspiring stage actress. After all, she had made her stage debut in Seen But Not Heard at age 1. Broadway critics. By age 1. 7 she had signed a contract with 2. Century Fox, and at 1. Orson Welles’ The Magnificient Ambersons (1. Yet no matter how big a star she became — big enough to play Queen Nefretiri in De Mille’s The Ten Commandments (1. So when All About Eve was turned into the 1. Applause, and Lauren Bacall left the cast after winning a Tony, it was the courageous Baxter who stepped in to play the role of Margo Channing — a choice critic David Thomson called “one of life’s braver attempts to match art.” (A)In the supporting actress category, Eve brought nominations to two more talented actresses — Thelma Ritter and Celeste Holm. Ritter is superb as Davis’ dresser and is given almost as many great lines as Davis: “What a story! She had actually just left Fox after a heated contract dispute with Zanuck, who was forced to eat crow and rehire her when Mankiewicz insisted she play Karen. Ironically, it was the film’s only male nomination. When Sanders won the Oscar, he started weeping and said, “I can’t help it.
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