"while ""Harrison's Reports"" called it ""a fascinating, continually absorbing story about Broadway theatrical people, given a mature treatment and penetrated with realistic dialogue and flashes of slick, sardonic humor."" John McCarten of ""The New Yorker"" called it ""a thoroughly entertaining movie."" Writing in 2000, film critic Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun Times"" praised the film, saying Bette Davis' character ""veteran actress Margo Channing in ""All About Eve"" was her greatest role."" Boxoffice.com stated that it ""is a classic of the American cinema – to this day the quintessential depiction of ruthless ambition in the entertainment industry, with legendary performances"
"One of Davis' biggest successes at Warner Brothers was ""Now, Voyager"" (1942), which earned her another Academy Award nomination. Her later films for the studio, including ""Winter Meeting"" (1948) and ""Beyond the Forest"" (1949), failed at the box office. She turned down leading roles in ""Mildred Pierce"" and ""Possessed"" - both films eventually went to Joan Crawford. As her popularity waned, Warner Brothers dropped her contract in 1949, and from thereafter on, she occupied a freelance career. Davis received a career revival in ""All About Eve"" (1950) for 20th Century-Fox. She played an aging Broadway star, Margo Channing, who is"
"theatrical actress Margo Channing in ""All About Eve"" (1950). Davis read the script, described it as the best she had ever read, and accepted the role. Within days, she joined the cast in San Francisco to begin filming. During production, she established what would become a life-long friendship with her co-star Anne Baxter and a romantic relationship with her leading man Gary Merrill, which led to marriage. The film's director, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, later remarked: ""Bette was letter perfect. She was syllable-perfect. The director's dream: the prepared actress."" Critics responded positively to Davis' performance, and several of her lines became"
"Barbara Bates Barbara Bates (August 6, 1925 – March 18, 1969) was an American actress and singer, known for her role as Phoebe in the 1950 drama film ""All About Eve"". The eldest of three daughters, Bates was born in Denver, Colorado. While growing up in Denver, she studied ballet and worked as a teen fashion model. The shy teen was persuaded to enter a local beauty contest and won, receiving two round-trip train tickets to Hollywood, California. Two days before returning to Denver, Bates met Cecil Coan (father of Margaret Riggs) a United Artists publicist, who would ultimately change"
"was 43 years old. She is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Jefferson County, Colorado. Barbara Bates Barbara Bates (August 6, 1925 – March 18, 1969) was an American actress and singer, known for her role as Phoebe in the 1950 drama film ""All About Eve"". The eldest of three daughters, Bates was born in Denver, Colorado. While growing up in Denver, she studied ballet and worked as a teen fashion model. The shy teen was persuaded to enter a local beauty contest and won, receiving two round-trip train tickets to Hollywood, California. Two days before returning to Denver, Bates"
"second radio version of ""All About Eve"" starring Tallulah Bankhead as Margo Channing was presented on NBC's ""The Big Show"" by the Theatre Guild of the Air on November 16, 1952. Bankhead and many contemporary critics felt that the characterization of Margo Channing was patterned on her, a long-rumored charge denied by both Mankiewicz and Davis, but attested by costume designer Edith Head. Additionally, Bankhead's rivalry with her understudy (Lizabeth Scott) during the production of ""The Skin of Our Teeth"" is cited as an alternative hypothesis for the origin of Mary Orr's ""The Wisdom of Eve,"" the original short story"
"protective cage. Siddons sat for numerous artists, and her portraits include many that depict her in costume portraying a theatrical role. American director Joseph L. Mankiewicz used the 1784 portrait by Reynolds extensively in his film ""All About Eve"", winner of the 1950 Academy Award for Best Picture. The portrait is seen at the top of an entrance staircase in Margo Channing's apartment, appearing throughout a party scene, and emphasized by a close-up with which the scene ends. Mankiewicz also invented the (then) fictitious Sarah Siddons Society for the film, along with its award, a statuette modelled upon the Reynolds"
"film ""Three Came Home"" (1950) was also praised by the critics. However, ""The Secret Fury"" (1950), distributed by RKO Studios, was a mystery melodrama that received mixed reviews. During this period Colbert was unable to work beyond 5 p.m. each day due to doctor's orders. While Colbert still looked like a young woman, she found it difficult to make the transition to playing more mature characters as she approached middle age. Colbert once said, ""I'm a very good comedienne, but I was always fighting that image, too."" In 1949, Colbert was selected to play Margo Channing in ""All About Eve"","
"Crematorium on 15 May 1986. Her ashes lie in the West Cloister and have an oval memorial tablet. Bergner is considered by several critics to be the inspiration for the character of Margo Channing in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's classic film, ""All About Eve"". Bergner had a real-life incident about a would-be Eve Harrington when Bergner was performing in the play ""The Two Mrs. Carrolls"" (1943). Bergner helped a young actress, and the actress ""took over"" Bergner's life. Bergner recounted the story to writer Mary Orr, who based a short story ""The Wisdom of Eve"" (1946) in ""Cosmopolitan"" magazine on Bergner's"
"Ritter, Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest roles, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates and Walter Hampden. Praised by critics at the time of its release, ""All About Eve"" received 14 Academy Award nominations and won six, including Best Picture. ""All About Eve"" is the only film in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations (Davis and Baxter as Best Actress, Holm and Ritter as Best Supporting Actress). ""All About Eve"" was selected in 1990 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry and was among the first 50 films to be registered. ""All About Eve"" appeared at #16"
"Don Briggs as Lloyd Richards, Kevin McCarthy as Bill Samson, Florence Robinson as Birdie Coonan, and Stefan Schnabel as Max Fabian. In 1970, ""All About Eve"" was the inspiration for the stage musical ""Applause,"" with book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. The original production starred Lauren Bacall as Margo Channing, and it won the Tony Award for Best Musical that season. It ran for four previews and 896 performances at the Palace Theatre on Broadway. After Bacall left the production, she was replaced by Anne Baxter in the role of"
"as a full partner. The likeness of actress Joanne Woodward was used for the painting of Marguerite Wyke. The production team intended to reveal as little about the movie as possible so as to make the conclusion a complete surprise to the audience. For this reason there is a false cast list at the beginning of the film which lists fictional people playing roles that do not exist. They are Alec Cawthorne as Inspector Doppler, John Matthews as Detective Sergeant Tarrant, Eve Channing (named after the characters Eve Harrington and Margo Channing from Mankiewicz's 1950 film ""All About Eve"") as"
"1970s in ""Applause"", the musical version of ""All About Eve"", but this time as Margo Channing (succeeding Lauren Bacall). In the 1970s, Baxter was a frequent guest and guest host on ""The Mike Douglas Show"". She portrayed a murderous film star on an episode of ""Columbo"", called ""Requiem for a Falling Star"". In this episode, she portrayed a fading movie star called Nora Chandler, perhaps in homage to the fading star Margo Channing of ""All About Eve"". In 1971, she had a role in ""Fools' Parade"" as an aging prostitute who helps characters played by Jimmy Stewart, Strother Martin, and"
"the present day (1970) instead of the 1950 setting of ""All About Eve"". Comden and Green also created new characters to replace the characters created specifically for the movie. Addison de Witt, the snide and articulate drama critic played in the film by George Sanders, was replaced by Howard Benedict, producer of the play in which Margo Channing is appearing. Margo's loyal assistant Birdie Coonan, the only character in the film who is suspicious of Eve from the start, was replaced by Duane Fox, Margo's gay hair stylist. Strouse commented that this change also made the show more relevant to"
"Great Movies"", says Eve Harrington is ""a universal type,"" and focuses on the aging actress plot line, comparing the film to ""Sunset Boulevard."" Similarly, Marc Lee's 2006 review of the film for ""The Daily Telegraph"" describes a subtext ""into the darker corners of show business, exposing its inherent ageism, especially when it comes to female stars."" Kathleen Woodward's 1999 book, ""Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (Theories of Contemporary Culture)"", also discusses themes that appeared in many of the ""aging actress"" films of the 1950s and 1960s, including ""All About Eve."" She reasons that Margo has three options: ""To continue to"
"provided numerous suggestions for improving the screenplay. In some sections, he felt Mankiewicz's writing lacked subtlety or provided excessive detail. He suggested diluting Birdie Coonan's jealousy of Eve so the audience would not recognize Eve as a villain until much later in the story. Zanuck reduced the screenplay by about 50 pages and chose the title ""All About Eve"" from the opening scenes in which Addison DeWitt says he will soon tell ""more of Eve ... All about Eve, in fact."" Among the actresses originally considered to play Margo Channing were Mankiewicz's original inspiration, Susan Hayward, who was rejected by"
"in the role. Marilyn Monroe performances and awards Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) was an American actress who appeared in 29 films between 1946 and 1961. After a brief career in modeling she signed short-term film contracts, first with 20th Century Fox, then Columbia Pictures, and appeared in minor roles for the first few years of her career. In 1950, she made minor appearances in two critically acclaimed films, ""The Asphalt Jungle"" and ""All About Eve"". The parts in the two films were against many of the roles into which she was typecast, that of the dumb blonde. Margot A. Henriksen, her"
"of Margo Channing in the film as fifth on their list of 100 Greatest Performances of All Time, commenting: ""There is something deliciously audacious about her gleeful willingness to play such unattractive emotions as jealousy, bitterness, and neediness."" While reviewing ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"" (1962) in 2008, Ebert asserted that, ""No one who has seen the film will ever forget her."" A few months before her death in 1989, Davis was one of several actors featured on the cover of ""Life"" magazine. In a film retrospective that celebrated the films and stars of 1939, ""Life"" concluded that Davis"
"""All About Eve"" largely because of a resemblance to Claudette Colbert, who originally was cast but dropped out and was replaced by Bette Davis. The original idea was to have Baxter's character gradually come to mirror Colbert's over the course of the film. Baxter received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the title role of Eve Harrington. She said she modeled the role on a bitchy understudy she had for her debut performance in the Broadway play ""Seen But Not Heard"" at the age of 13 and who had threatened to ""finish her off."" Her next Fox film"
"Mary Orr Mary Caswell Orr (December 21, 1910 – September 22, 2006) was an American actress and author whose short story ""The Wisdom of Eve"", published in the May 1946 issue of ""Cosmopolitan"", was the basis of the Academy Award-winning film ""All About Eve"" (1950). In private life, Orr used her married name, Mary Orr Denham. Orr was born in Brooklyn, New York. She and her family relocated to Canton, Ohio when she was a girl. She studied at Syracuse University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan. ""The Wisdom of Eve"" was loosely based upon a woman"
"Marilyn Monroe performances and awards Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) was an American actress who appeared in 29 films between 1946 and 1961. After a brief career in modeling she signed short-term film contracts, first with 20th Century Fox, then Columbia Pictures, and appeared in minor roles for the first few years of her career. In 1950, she made minor appearances in two critically acclaimed films, ""The Asphalt Jungle"" and ""All About Eve"". The parts in the two films were against many of the roles into which she was typecast, that of the dumb blonde. Margot A. Henriksen, her biographer with the"
"award presentation. The film earned $2.9 million in box office receipts in the United States during its release. ""All About Eve"" received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics upon its release on October 13, 1950 at a New York City premiere. The film's competitor, ""Sunset Boulevard,"" released the same year, drew similar praise, and the two were often favorably compared. Film critic Bosley Crowther of ""The New York Times"" loved the film, stating that ""a fine Darryl Zanuck production, excellent music and an air of ultra-class complete this superior satire."" ""Variety"" called it ""a literate, adult film"" with ""exceedingly well-cast performances,"""
"nominations in two acting categories, and the first (and, to date, only) film to receive four female acting nominations--two each for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. None was successful, losing to Judy Holliday in ""Born Yesterday"" and Josephine Hull in ""Harvey"", respectively. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 23rd Academy Awards The 23rd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1950. ""All About Eve"" received 14 Oscar nominations, beating the previous record of 13 set"
"time, Hayworth was suffering from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's disease and could not retain lyrics or dialogue. Anne Baxter, who had portrayed Eve in the original film, replaced Bacall as Margo Channing. When Baxter departed the show in 1972, actress Arlene Dahl replaced her for one month before the show closed. The musical was later adapted for television, starring Bacall, with Larry Hagman replacing Len Cariou in the role of Bill Sampson. It aired in the United States on CBS on March 19, 1973. It has not been released commercially, but it is available for viewing at the Paley"
"died at her Central Park West apartment on July 15, 2012. Celeste Holm Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American stage, film and television actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in ""Gentleman's Agreement"" (1947), and was nominated for her roles in ""Come to the Stable"" (1949) and ""All About Eve"" (1950). She originated the role of Ado Annie in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ""Oklahoma!"" (1943). Born and raised in Manhattan, Holm was an only child. Her mother, Jean Parke, was an American portrait artist and author. Her father, Theodor Holm, was"
"Carol Channing in film and television Carol Channing (born January 31, 1921) is an American actress, singer, dancer, comedian, and voice artist. She won the Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Muzzy Van Hossmere in ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"" (1967). Other film appearances include ""The First Traveling Saleslady"" (1956) and ""Skidoo"" (1968). On television she has made many appearances as an entertainer on variety shows, from ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" in the 1950s to ""Hollywood Squares"". She is also known for her performance as The White Queen in a"
"for the role of Sally Morton Carroll. During the play's run, a shy girl showed up at the stage door night after night to speak with Bergner. Bergner eventually became a mentor to the girl, sponsored her career in the theater, and won her a role as an understudy in ""The Two Mrs. Carrolls"". The girl eventually undercut Bergner's career. The incident became the basis for the short story ""The Wisdom of Eve"" (1946) by Mary Orr, which was adapted for the movie ""All About Eve"" (1950). In the summer of 1944, Warner Brothers paid $225,000 for the film rights"
"Moon"", which was an early forerunner of the 1950s film ""D.O.A."" In the late 1920s, she and her husband moved to Australia, where she made numerous films, including ""The Romance of Runnibede"". However, with the advent of ""talking films"", her popularity faded. She would continue to act, but mostly in obscure roles. She appeared in 123 films between 1917 and 1965, when she retired. She was residing in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles at the time of her death from pneumonia at the age of 90, on April 17, 1988. Eva Novak Eva Barbara Novak (February 14, 1898 – April 17,"
"in 30 films and was one of the top paid actresses in 1950's. Her film credits included ""The Asphalt Jungle"", ""All about Eve"" and ""The Seven Year Itch"". During this time ""Niagara"" (1953) was released. A promotional still from the film and captured by Gene Kornman is the basis of ""Untitled from Marilyn Monroe"". However, not everything was as glamorous as it looked to the viewers, as Monroe often struggled with casting in serious movie roles, due to Hollywood's depiction of her as a vacant and sexualised female. Throughout her triumphs, Monroe struggled with mental health breakdowns, searching for happiness"
"the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sophie MacDonald in ""The Razor's Edge"" (1946). In 1951, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the title role in ""All About Eve"" (1950). She worked with several of Hollywood's greatest directors, including Alfred Hitchcock in ""I Confess"" (1953), Fritz Lang in ""The Blue Gardenia"" (1953), and Cecil B. DeMille in ""The Ten Commandments"" (1956). Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana, to Catherine Dorothy (née Wright; 1894–1979)—whose father was the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright—and Kenneth Stuart Baxter (1893–1977), an executive with the Seagrams Distillery"
"Posten jointly issued two commemorative stamps bearing her image. On 6 April 2011, Sveriges Riksbank announced that Garbo's portrait was to be featured on the 100-krona banknote, beginning in 2014–2015. Author Ernest Hemingway provided an imaginary portrayal of Garbo in his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls: Informational notes Citations Greta Garbo Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for her ""luminous and"
"for Susan Hayward."" Mankiewicz presented a film treatment of the combined stories under the title ""Best Performance."" He changed the main character's name from Margola Cranston to Margo Channing and retained several of Orr's characters — Eve Harrington, Lloyd and Karen Richards, and Miss Casswell — while removing Margo Channing's husband completely and replacing him with a new character, Bill Sampson. The intention was to depict Channing in a new relationship and allow Eve Harrington to threaten both Channing's professional and personal lives. Mankiewicz also added the characters Addison DeWitt, Birdie Coonan, Max Fabian, and Phoebe. Zanuck was enthusiastic and"
"Gregory Ratoff Gregory Ratoff (born Grigory Vasilyevich Ratner, Russian: Григорий Васильевич Рэтнер, April 20, c. 1893 – December 14, 1960) was a Russian-born American film director, actor and producer. His most famous role as an actor was as producer Max Fabian in ""All About Eve"" (1950). Ratoff was born in Samara, Russia, to Jewish parents, Sophie (née Markison) and Benjamin Ratner. His mother claimed to have been born on September 1, 1878, but was married on June 14, 1894, when she would have been 15, to Benjamin Ratner (born 1864 – died 19??), with whom she had four children, the"