All About Eve (Studio Classics)

All About Eve (Studio Classics)

DVD
A never-bettered melodrama of backstage bitchery. Bette Davis is at the top of her game as her display as Margo Channing shows, not only for the acid-tongued egotism and bristling paranoia about the effects of the passing years, but for the moving realisation of the emotional toll exacted by her glittering career.

Along the way we get George Sanders priceless barbed aperus and steely scheming, a succulent cameo from a youthful Marilyn Monroe and more quotable dialogue in one movie than most screenwriters manage in a lifetime.

Starring:

  • Bette Davis
  • Anne Baxter
  • George Sanders
  • Celeste Holm
  • Marilyn Monroe

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Awards include:

6 Academy Awards (1950):
  • Best Motion Picture
  • Actor in a Supporting Role: George Sanders
  • Directing: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Writing (Screenplay): Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Costume Design
  • Sound Recording

BAFTA Award (1950):
Best Film