All About Eve Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
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- DVD Release Date: 01/14/2003
- Original Release: 1950
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- Sales Rank: 13,985
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Features
Closed Caption; Audio commentary by Celeste Holm, Christopher Mankiewicz and Kenneth Geist; Audio commentary by Sam Staggs; AMC backstory episode: All About Eve; Original interviews with Bette Davis and Ann Baxter; 4 movietone newsreels; Restoration comparison; Theatrical trailer; Full fram format; English stereo; English mono; French mono; Spanish mono; English and Spanish subtitles
Full Product DetailsScene Index
Side #1 --
1. Main Titles [1:05]
2. The Sarah Siddons Award [6:16]
3. Only Last October [2:22]
4. Meet Margo Channing [2:10]
5. How it Started [3:10]
6. What Is Theater? [6:36]
7. At the Airport [3:13]
8. Eve Moves In [:27]
9. Midnight Caller [2:08]
10. Paranoiac Insecurity? [4:06]
11. Bill's Welcome Home Birthday Party [6:03]
12. The New Understudy [1:22]
13. A Breed Apart [4:01]
14. The Party's Over [8:00]
15. A Mass of Fire and Music [2:19]
16. Coming Unglued [3:02]
17. A Perfectly Harmless Joke [2:40]
18. Forward Pass [:07]
19. Addison's Review [3:31]
20. Lloyd's Idea? [3:34]
21. The Cub Room [9:26]
22. A Simple Exchange of Favors [1:03]
23. "What's So Funny?" [8:07]
24. Footsteps on the Ceiling [5:43]
25. Killer to Killer [:19]
26. A Night to Remember [4:08]
27. Phoebe [3:25]
28. End Titles [3:45]
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 naīve 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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Why We Rated This Appropriate for Ages 12 and UP
What to watch out for
- Drugs:
Social drinking (sometimes to excess), some "I need a drink" responses to stress
- Language:
None
- Messages:
Not an issue.
- Sex:
None
- Violence:
None
- Consumerism:
Not an issue.
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.
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