All About Eve 1950

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 138 min

genre: drama

theme: films à clef

director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Score: 8 / 10

All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It is based on the 1946 short story (and subsequent 1949 radio drama) "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, although Orr does not receive a screen credit.

Plot

Broadway star Margo Channing recently turned 40 and worries about what advancing age will mean for her career. After a performance of Margo's latest play, Margo's close friend, Karen Richards, wife of the play's author Lloyd Richards, brings besotted fan Eve Harrington backstage to meet Margo. In Margo's dressing room, Eve tells Karen, Lloyd, and Margo's maid Birdie, that she followed Margo's last theatrical tour to New York City after seeing her perform in San Francisco. She tells an engrossing story of growing up poor in Wisconsin and losing her young husband, Eddie in the South Pacific during World War II. Margo, moved by Eve's story, takes her into her home as her assistant, upsetting Birdie.

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author	Erich Kästner Joseph L. Mankiewicz
award	Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	Connecticut New York City
director	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
editor	Barbara McLean
genre	drama
keywords	act bow broadway broadway star broadway theater dressing room follow grow up lose married new haven pacific ocean theatre of world war ii pack phone call south pacific understudy wisconsin world war ii
musicBy	Alfred Newman
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Darryl F. Zanuck
recordedAt	Connecticut San Francisco
theme	films à clef satirical