All About Eve
1950 - ENGLISH - MOVIE
Drama
Eve (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her idol, aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). It ms innocent enough as Eve explains that she has n Margo in EVERY performance of her current play. Only playwright/critic DeWitt (George Sanders) s through Eve s evil plan, which is to take her parts and her fiancé, Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill). When the fiancé shows no interest, she tries for playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe), but DeWitt stops her. After she accepts her award, she decides to skip the after-party and goes to her room, where a young woman named Phoebe has sneaked into her room and fallen asleep. This is where the Circle of Life now comes to fruition as Eve will get played like she played Margo. All About Eve is a 1950 American English-language Drama motion picture starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe and Robert Whitney. The movie is based on The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr. 20th Century Fox was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Darryl F. Zanuck. The motion picture is written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 20th Century Fox acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. All About Eve was released on 27th October 1950 and takes a screen time of 138 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. All About Eve was made on a budget of $1 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cinematography was done by Milton R. Krasner and editing by Barbara McLean. The music was composed by Academy Award Oscar winner Alfred Newman.
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sophisticated
monochrome
evangelical
cynical
uncomfortable