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All About Eve Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm

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  • DVD Release Date: 04/08/2008
  • Original Release: 1950
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 13,055

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Closed Caption; Disc 1: ; Commentary by actor Celeste Holm, Joseph Mankiewicz biographer Ken Geist and Christpher Mankiewicz; Commentary by author Sam Staggs; Isolated score track; ; Disc 2: ; Directed by Joseph L. Makiewicz featurette; Joseph L. Makiewicz: A Personal Journey featurette; The Real Eve featurette; The Secret of Sarah Siddons featurette; AMC Backstory: All About Eve; Fox Movietonews: Academy Awards Honor Best Film Achievements, Hollywood attends Gala Premier of All About Eve; Holiday Magazine Awards, Look Magazine Awards; Restoration comparison; Original theatrical trailer and more!

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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- All About Eve: Feature Film
1. Main Titles [1:04]
2. The Sarah Siddons Award [6:17]
3. Only Last October [2:22]
4. Meet Margo Channing [5:20]
5. How It Started [6:36]
6. What Is Theater? [3:13]
7. At the Airport [2:35]
8. Eve Moves In [4:07]
9. Midnight Caller [6:02]
10. Paranoiac Insecurity? [5:24]
11. Bill's Welcome Home Birthday Party [10:19]
12. The New Understudy [3:02]
13. A Breed Apart [2:47]
14. The Party's Over [3:31]
15. A Mass of Fire and Music [3:34]
16. Coming Unglued [9:25]
17. A Perfectly Harmless Joke [9:11]
18. Forward Pass [6:02]
19. Addison's Review [4:08]
20. Lloyd's Idea [3:25]
21. The Club Room [3:46]
22. A Simple Exchange of Favors [7:03]
23. "What's So Funny?" [3:22]
24. Footsteps On the Ceiling [4:16]
25. Killer to Killer [8:48]
26. A Night to Remember [5:18]
27. Phoebe [6:08]
28. End Titles [:49]

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Editorial Reviews

Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). Tattered and forlorn, Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing (Bette Davis), weaving a melancholy life story to Margo and her friends. Taking pity on the girl, Margo takes Eve as her personal assistant. Before long, it becomes apparent that naïve Eve is a Machiavellian conniver who cold-bloodedly uses Margo, her director Bill Sampson (Gary Merill), Lloyd's wife Karen (Celeste Holm), and waspish critic Addison De Witt (George Sanders) to rise to the top of the theatrical heap. Also appearing in All About Eve is Marilyn Monroe, introduced by Addison De Witt as "a graduate of the Copacabana school of dramatic art." This is but one of the hundreds of unforgettable lines penned by writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the most famous of which is Margo Channing's lip-sneering admonition, "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night." All About Eve received 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Bette Davis Does it Againby Pink_Cuppah

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January 24, 2010: This film was very interesting indeed! The acting, led by the superb Bette Davis, is brilliant. I think the casting was wonderful and the dialogue witty. This is a very entertaining film and makes one think about professional and social relationships and their meaning. I think Bette Davis is the best and as always gives a stunning performance.

I Also Recommend: Dark Victory, Now, Voyager, Jezebel, Old Acquaintance, Dead Ringer.

Bette Davis at her bestby SCB59

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December 28, 2009: Bette Davis puts in an outstanding performance closely followed by Anne Baxter's. Great movie for it's time and still relavent for today.


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What to watch out for

  • Drugs:

    Social drinking (sometimes to excess), some "I need a drink" responses to stress

  • Language:

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  • Sex:

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What Parents Need to Know

About All About Eve

Parents need to know that this classic showbiz drama has some powerful messages about ambition and betrayal. Eve manipulates others to get what she wants and succeed, and other characters initially believe her. There's also some social drinking representative of movies of the era.

Families Can Talk About

Families can talk about what actions are appropriate to realize ambition. Compare it to movies like Rudy, also about the achievement of a dream. It's not the dream that differs here as much as how it's achieved. It might be fun for kids to talk about the theater and how it differs from movies. Take them to a local production, or get a book of plays for children from the library and help them produce one.