All About Eve

Country: USA
Year: 1950
Running time: 138 mins
Language: English
Certificate: U
Format: Digital Cinema and 35mm
Sound: Mono (restored)
Picture: Black & White (restored)
Projected ratio: Academy (1.33:1)

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davies, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm

Synopsis:

It’s all about women…. and their men!

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davies). The cunning Eve manoeuvres her way into Margo’s Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo’s director boyfriend (Gary Merrill), her playwright (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife (Celeste Holm). Only the cynical drama critic (George Sanders) sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Thelma Ritter and Marilyn Monroe co-star in this brilliantly scripted, acclaimed classic, which won six Academy Awards and received the most nominations (fourteen) in film history.

Press quotes:

‘Davis is magisterial’
David Parkinson, Empire

‘Still feels bang up to date’
Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard

‘A must-see’
Anwar Brett, Film Review

‘The wittiest, fizziest dialogue in Hollywood history’
Financial Times

‘A real Christmas treat’
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

‘Put simply, one of the greatest movies ever made’
Anthony Quinn, The Independent

‘Glorious bumpy ride’
Time Out

9/10 – ‘wittier, better acted and much more entertaining than most films half its age’
Daily Star

‘Bloody marvellous’
Metro

‘Margo Channing is the finest role of Bette’s Davis’ great career’
Daily Telegraph

‘Was there ever a better diva than Bette?’
Vogue