All About Eve

Program:

Retrospective program "Century"

Year:

1950

Country:

USA

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

138’

Eve Harrington is waiting backstage to meet her idol, talented but aging Broadway star Margo Channing. It seems innocent enough as Eve explains that she has seen Margo in every performance of her current play. Margo and her friends take Eve under their wing but only theatre critic Addison DeWitt sees through Eve's evil plan, which is to take Margo's parts and her fiancé, Bill Simpson too.

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin. Having seen the industry inside, he decided to persuade a director’s career. Mankiewicz directed 20 films in a 26-year period, successfully attempted every kind of movie from Shakespeare adaptation to western, from urban sociological drama to musical, from epic film with thousands of extras to a two-character picture. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949) and ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) brought him wide recognition along with two Academy Awards for each as a writer and a director.

Filmography: Sleuth (1972), The Honey Pot (1967), A Carol for Another Christmas (1964), Cleopatra (1963), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), The Quiet American (1958), Guys and Dolls (1955), Julius Caesar (1953), 5 Fingers (1952), People Will Talk (1951), No Way Out (1950), All About Eve (1950), House of Strangers (1949), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), Escape (1948), The Late George Apley (1947), Somewhere in the Night (1946)

Creative team

Director

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Screenplay

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Camera

Milton R. Krasner

Editing

Barbara McLean

Producer

Darryl F. Zanuck

Cast