All About Eve (1950) |
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Other InformationAwardsPGA Hall of Fame - Motion Pictures PGA Awards [1997] (Won/Nominated: Won) National Film Registry National Film Preservation Board, USA [1990] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Foreign Language Film Kinema Junpo Awards [1952] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Actress - Foreign Film Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists [1952] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best American Film Bodil Awards [1952] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Written American Drama Writers Guild of America, USA [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Written American Comedy Writers Guild of America, USA [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Supporting Actress Golden Globes [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Supporting Actor Golden Globes [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture Director Golden Globes [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama Golden Globes [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Motion Picture - Drama Golden Globes [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Screenplay Golden Globes [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Grand Prize of the Festival Cannes Film Festival [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Jury Special Prize Cannes Film Festival [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Actress Cannes Film Festival [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Film from any Source BAFTA Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Film Editing Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Actress in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Writing, Screenplay Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Sound, Recording Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Picture Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Director Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Actor in a Supporting Role Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Film New York Film Critics Circle Awards [1950] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Director New York Film Critics Circle Awards [1950] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Actress New York Film Critics Circle Awards [1950] (Won/Nominated: Won) Plot SummaryAt the Sarah Siddons Society`s annual banquet, imperious theater critic Addison DeWitt, playwright Lloyd Richards and his wife Karen, producer Max Fabian and legendary actress Margo Channing watch as Eve Harrington is presented with the theater`s mos... TaglineIt`s all about women---and their men! DiscographySinglesThou Swell Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin` All the Time) How About You? Blue Moon That Old Black Magic Beau Soir Poinciana Manhattan Liebestraum |
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All About Eve (1950) was nominated for the following awards:
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Addison DeWitt: I`m Addison DeWitt. I`m nobody`s fool, least of all yours.
Birdie: What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin` at her rear end.
Margo Channing: Funny business, a woman`s career - the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you`ll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That`s one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we`ve got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we`ve had or wanted. And in the last analysis, nothing`s any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed, and there he is. Without that, you`re not a woman. You`re something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings, but you`re not a woman. Slow curtain, the end. Margo Channing: Bill`s thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he`ll look it twenty years from now. I hate men.
Eve Harrington: If nothing else, there`s applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights.
Trivia In an introduction to the film on Turner Classic Movies in November 2008, Robert Osborne said that everyone assumed that Bette Davis had based her characterization on Tallulah Bankhead, even Tallulah herself. In 1952, Tallulah Bankhead starred in a radio adaptation of "All About Eve" which featured in the supporting cast Mary Orr, author of the original story "The Wisdom of Eve". According to Robert Osborne, during a rehearsal Tallulah asked Mary Orr: "I was the prototype for Margo Channing, wasn`t I?" and Orr set the record straight and said "no". Tallulah reportedly never spoke to Mary Orr again. "Applause" (the Broadway musical version starring Lauren Bacall) opened at the Palace Theater on March 30, 1970 and ran for 896 performances. 33 years later, life imitated art when Anne Baxter stepped into Bette Davis` shoes to replace her on the series "Hotel" (1983) after she fell ill. Ms. Davis never returned to the show. Though most of the score is original music by Alfred Newman, the music during the car scene with Karen and Margo is an instrumental version of "Liebestraum" ("Love`s Dream") by Franz Liszt, the same music the drunken, maudlin Margo had the pianist play over and over again during the party scene. The joke is that when she hears it again in the car (now sober, of course), she condemns it as "cheap sentimentality" and quickly turns it off. Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck`s casting notes revealed he had wanted John Garfield for Bill Sampson and Barbara Stanwyck for Margo Channing. Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe and Thelma Ritter were the first choices for their roles. Co-star Celeste Holm spoke about her experience with Bette Davis on the first day of shooting: "I walked onto the set . . . on the first day and said, `Good morning,` and do you know her reply? She said, `Oh shit, good manners.` I never spoke to her again--ever." The "Sarah Siddons Award" which Eve receives was invented by writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. In 1952 a small group of eminent Chicago theater-goers, including Mrs. Loyal Davis, mother of future First Lady Nancy Davis, began to give an award of that name which is also physically modeled on the one in the film. The 1967-1968 Actor of the Year award recipient was Celeste Holm. In 1973, during the Sarah Siddons Society Anniversary Gala, an honorary Sarah Siddons award was presented to Bette Davis, even though she never appeared in a play in Chicago. Around 1960 Davis did appear in the Tennessee Williams play "The Night of the Iguana" at the Blackstone in Chicago. In the theatre scene, Bette Davis mentions playwright Arthur Miller. Marilyn Monroe, who had one of her first roles in this film, later married Miller. Bette Davis filmed all of her scenes in 16 days. Bette Davis`s performance as Margo Channing is ranked #5 on Premiere Magazine`s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. The movie`s line "You won`t bore him, honey. You won`t even get a chance to talk." was voted as the #25 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007 The movie`s poster was as #24 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere. The movie`s line "All of a sudden she`s playing Hamlet`s mother." was voted as the #53 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #28 Greatest Movie of All Time. The movie`s line "Fasten your seatbelts. It`s going to be a bumpy night" was voted as the #9 movie quote by the American Film Institute Was voted the 21st Greatest Movie of all time by Entertainment Weekly. It was Darryl F. Zanuck who decided to change the working title "Best Performance" to "All About Eve" after reading one of Addison DeWitt`s lines in the opening narration of the script. Bette Davis fell in love with her co-star Gary Merrill during the shoot of this movie and the two married in July 1950 a few weeks after filming was completed. Bette Davis admitted later on that Joseph L. Mankiewicz`s casting her in this movie saved her career from oblivion after a series of unsuccessful movies. She said in a 1983 interview, "He resurrected me from the dead." 20th-Century Fox paid Mary Orr $5,000 for all rights to "The Wisdom of Eve". Contrary to popular belief, Margo Channing is not based on Tallulah Bankhead. The film was adapted from an original story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr (uncredited in this film), based on a real-life incident involving Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner during her run in the hit stage thriller "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" in 1943-44. The story about it being based on Bankhead persisted, however, and when Bankhead heard it, she reportedly told a live radio audience that the next time she saw Bette Davis, she would "tear every hair out of her mustache". According to the casting director`s list, future White House occupants Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were considered for the roles of Bill Sampson and Eve Harrington. Angela Lansbury and Zsa Zsa Gabor were considered for the role of Miss Caswell. Gabor`s then-husband, George Sanders, did get the role of Miss Caswell`s mentor, Addison DeWitt. Bette Davis`s voice was strained from her recent divorce, and she had to re-record all her dialogue from the theater scene. The original story "The Wisdom of Eve" appeared in "Cosmopolitan" magazine in 1946, and was produced as a radio drama for NBC - but every studio rejected it as a film project. Eventually Fox bought the rights for $3500 with no credit stipulations. Joseph L. Mankiewicz combined "The Wisdom of Eve" with a story he had been developing about an actress who recalls her life when receiving an award. Ranks first in the Most Academy Award Nominated Films with 14 nominations, set a record which has been tied only by the No.2 Titanic (1997). The theatre scenes in the film were shot at San Francisco`s Curran Theatre at 445 Geary Street a couple of blocks from Union Square. In 1970 the story was adapted into a Broadway musical called "Applause" and in 1973 a made-for-TV movie (Applause (1973) (TV)). Lauren Bacall played Margo Channing. When Bacall left the show, the actress who took over the role was Anne Baxter, who had played the role of Eve in the film. In real life, Bette Davis had just turned 42 as she undertook the role of Margo Channing, and Anne Baxter, still an up-and-comer, not only wowed audiences with her performance, but successfully pressured the powers that be to get her nominated for an Oscar in the Best Actress category rather than Best Supporting Actress. This is thought to have split the vote between herself and Davis. The winner for the 1950 Best Actress was Judy Holliday for her noticeable turn in Born Yesterday (1950), so Baxter`s actions in effect blocked Davis` chances for the win. Holds the record for the film with the greatest number of female acting Oscar nominations. Ingrid Bergman was another actress considered for the part of Margo Channing but she had just fallen in love with Italian director Roberto Rossellini and didn`t want to leave Italy. Zsa Zsa Gabor kept arriving on the set because she was jealous of her husband George Sanders in his scenes with the young blonde ingénue Marilyn Monroe. Bette Davis` marriage to William Grant Sherry was in the throes of breaking up while she was making the film. Her raspy voice in the film is largely due to the fact that she burst a blood vessel in her throat from screaming at her soon-to-be-ex-husband during one of their many rows. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz liked the croaky quality so he didn`t have Davis change it. Donna Reed was also considered for the part of Eve Harrington. Darryl F. Zanuck envisioned Marlene Dietrich as Margo Channing, Jeanne Crain as Eve Harrington, and José Ferrer as Addison DeWitt. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz`s early choices for the Margo Channing role were Claudette Colbert and Gertrude Lawrence. When Crain became pregnant, Mankiewicz`s final choice for the Eve Harrington part was Anne Baxter because she displayed a "bitch virtuosity" that he believed Crain could not provide. Other actresses were also named and considered for the part of Margo Channing, among them Tallulah Bankhead and Susan Hayward. Although he received screen credit, actor Eddie Fisher`s scene was cut before the film`s release. Claudette Colbert was originally cast as Margo Channing, but suffered a ruptured disc during filming on Three Came Home (1950) and had to withdraw. Bette Davis stepped into the role, even though 20th Century-Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck and Davis couldn`t stand each other, going back to when Davis walked out from her post as president of the Motion Picture Academy in 1941. | ||
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