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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 twleve times, the movie won six Academy Awards, among them, the Best Movie.

The story is inspired firom 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 mn.

Release date :  October 4, 1950.

Réalisateur : Joseph L.Mankiewicz.

Filmmaker : 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 of « Liebestraum »), 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 (scenes deleted).

William Pullen - clerk.

Claude Strout - pianist.

Eugène Borden - Frenchman.

Helen Mowery - reporter.

Steven Geray - captain of Waiters.

TECHNICAL CREW

W.D.Flick - sounding.

Gaston Glass - assistant od director.

Roger Heman - sounding.

Erich Kästner - dialogues in German.

Charles LeMaire - costumes.

Thomas Little - decor.

Ben Nye - make-up.

Edward Powell - orchestration.

Walter M.Scott - decor.

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 admierer who is also a desperate woman. Seduced, Margo takes her under her protection end hired her as a 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 friends 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, spark off the play.
Karen  agrees et give Eve a chance one day, when Margo is in the country : Karen make arrangments by making the car who takes her back to town, breaking down. Margo arrives too late for the performance.
Eve replaces her and obtains an amazing sucess. Without any success, she makes advances to the director, Bill Sampson (Margo's lover), then  carry her black mail 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 Witt that she's going to mary Lloyd. This one, master in corruption since a long time, makes her undertstand that he knows her seamy past -  so far from the story she has told to her friends - and she finish her plan.
The movie ends on a young girl, Phoebe - full of ambition et who, without no 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

Oscars

- Best Costume  Design, Black and White : Edith Head, Charles LeMaire.

- Best Director : Joseph L.Mankiewicz.

- Best Picture: Twentieth Century Fox.

- 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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