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All about Eve (1950)
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"All About Eve" is one of the great Hollywood movies, bringing together many New York stage actors.
In 1951, after being selected twelve times, the movie won six Academy Awards, among them, the Best Movie.
The story is inspired from a Mary Orr short story ("The Wisdom of Eve") and during the shoting was titled "Best Performance".
Marilyn's contract, which formalized her return to the Fox, guaranteed her a 500$ a week salary.
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CREDITS
Twentieth Century-Fox, black and white.
Runtime : 138 minutes.
Release date : October 4, 1950.
Producer : Darryl F.Zanuck
Screenplay : Joseph L.Mankiewicz and Mary Orr (from her short story "The Wisdom of Eve")(
)Photography operator : Milton R.Krasner
Music : Franz Liszt (parts from "Lieberstraum"), Alfred Newman
Decors : George W.Davis, Lyle R.Wheeler
Costumes : Charles LeMaire
Montage : Barbara McLean.
CAST
Bette Davis - Margo Channing
Anne Baxter - Eve Harrington
George Sanders - Addison De Witt
Celeste Holm - Karen Richards
Gary Merrill - Bill Sampson
Hugh Marlowe - Lloyd Richards
Gregory Ratoff - Max Fabian
Barbara Bates - Phoebe
Marilyn Monroe - Claudia Caswell
Thelma Ritter - Birdie
Walter Hampden - aged actor
Randy Stuart - Eve's pal on telephone
Craig Hill - leading man in "Footsteps on the Ceiling"
Leland Harris - doorman
Barbara White - autograph seeker
Eddie Fisher - stage manager
William Pullen - clerk
Claude Strout -pianist
Eugène Borden - Frenchman
Helen Mowery - reporter
Steven Geray - captain of waiters
Bess Flowers - fan.
TECHNICAL CREW
W.D.Flick - sounding
Gaston Glass- director's assistant
Roger Heman - sounding
Erich Kästner - dialogues in German
Charles LeMaire - costumes
Thomas Little - decors
Ben Nye - maquillage
Edward Powell - orchestration
Walter M.Scott - decors
Fred Sersen - special effects
Lyle R. Wheeler - art director
SYNOPSIS
"Eve" relates the daily story of the theater world...a cruel and cynical milieu, devoured by ambition.
The very important actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis) is at the top of her celebrity. She's introduced to Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), a devoted admirer who is also a desperate woman. Seduced, Margo takes her under her protection and hired her as her secretary.
Since this moment, Eve, assiduously, studies each and every things the actress does and says, picking, little by little and insidiously, her confidences. She makes friend with the drama critic Addison De Witt.
He is the narrator of the story. He's a powerful man whose protégé is a novice, Miss Caswell.
Eve begs Karen (Celeste Holm), Margo's best friend, to obtain her a part as Margo stand-in next to her husband Lloyd (Hugh Marlowe), a drama writer, author of the play.
Karen agrees and give Eve a chance one day, when Margo is off-town : Karen makes arrangments by making the car taking her back to town, breaking down. Margo arrives too late for the performance.
Eve replaces her and obtains an amazing success. Without any success, she flirts with the director, Bill Sampson (Margo's lover), then blackmail on to Karen : she forces her to convince her husband to give her the main part in his next play. But Margo announces that she quits the show to marry Bill.
Eve hasn't ended her work. She confides to De Witt that she's going to marry Lloyd. This one, master in corruption since a long time, makes her understand that he knows her seamy past - so far from the story she has told to her friends - and she stops her plan.
The movie ends on a young girl, Phoebe - full of ambition and who, whitout any doubt, would reveal herself as a new Eve - receiving from De Witt's hands the Siddons Award Eve has forgotten in a taxi....
NOMINATIONS
To the Oscars
- Best Actress in a Leading Role : Anne Baxter, Bette Davis
- Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Black and White : George W.Davis, Thomas Little, Walter M.Scott, Lyle R.Wheeler
- Best Cinematographer, Black and White : Milton Krasner
- Best Film Editing : Barbara McLean
- Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture : Alfred Newman
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role : Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter.
AWARDS
To the Oscars
- Best Costume Design, Black and White : Edith Head, Charles LeMaire
- Best Director : Joseph L.Mankiewicz
- Best Picture : Darryl F.Zanuck
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role : George Sanders
- Best Writing, Screenplay : Joseph L.Mankiewicz
- Best Sound
Golden Globe
- Best Writing, Screenplay : Joseph L.Mankiewicz
British Academy Awards
- Best Picture (from any source)
Cannes International Film Festival
- Award for Best Actress : Bette Davis
- Special Jury Prize : Joseph L.Mankiewicz
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