All About Eve
All About Eve
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Six Oscars were awarded this cynical and entertaining examination of life as it exists on the Broadway theatre scene. Bette Davis glows as the aging star being undermined by her protege Anne Baxter, as Eve Harrington. With George Sanders, Celeste Holm, and Marilyn Monroe. A gem. Joseph L. Mankiewicz---USA---1950---138 mins.

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This is a superb film, a shining example of Hollywood’s “golden age” production values, but also a tribute, loving if also cynical, to the world of the New York stage. The wit and sophistication of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s screenplay--he is also the director--is at such a high level that we feel at times that we’re watching a filmed stage play. Bette Davis is at the top of her game as Margo Channing, a grande dame of the theater, threatened by the counterfeit humility of the eponymous Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). And the supporting cast is marvelous (Celeste Holm is such a dear, Thelma Ritter such an entertaining sourpuss). But for George Sanders, the role of the urbane (and superbly named) Addison DeWitt, is a career high point. As the chief narrator of the story, he begins by saying, “My native habitat is the theater. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theater.” Later he notes, “I’ve lived in the theater as a Trappist monk lives in his faith. I have no other world, no other life.” But in this world he is a shrewd observer, an arch chronicler, and a calculating tactician, who (as we eventually see) has the makings of a cruel and controlling puppet master. The Supporting Actor Oscar that Sanders received for this performance (his only Academic Award) was well deserved. Well deserved also were Mankiewicz’s Oscars, one for his outstanding screenplay, one for direction. Again, it’s a superb film.

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