Joseph L. Mankiewicz

All About Eve

All About Eve

In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s devastatingly witty Hollywood classic, backstage is where the real drama plays out. One night, Margo Channing (Bette Davis) entertains a surprise dressing-room visitor: her most adoring fan, the shy, wide-eyed Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). But as Eve becomes a fixture in Margo’s life, the Broadway legend soon realizes that her supposed admirer intends to use her and everyone in her circle, including George Sanders’s acid-tongued critic, as stepping-stones to stardom. Featuring stiletto-sharp dialogue and direction by Mankiewicz, and an unforgettable Davis in the role that revived her career and came to define it, the multiple-Oscar-winning All About Eve is the most deliciously entertaining film ever made about the ruthlessness of show business.

All About Eve

Film Info

  • United States
  • 1950
  • 138 minutes
  • Black & White
  • 1.37:1
  • English
  • Spine #1003

TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • Two audio commentaries from 2010, one featuring actor Celeste Holm, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s son Christopher Mankiewicz, and author Kenneth L. Geist; the other featuring author Sam Staggs
  • All About Mankiewicz, a feature-length documentary from 1983 about the director
  • Episodes of The Dick Cavett Show from 1969 and 1980 featuring actors Bette Davis and Gary Merrill
  • New interview with costume historian Larry McQueen
  • Hollywood Backstories: “All About Eve,” a 2001 documentary featuring interviews with Davis and others about the making of the film
  • Documentaries from 2010 about Mankiewicz’s life and career; “The Wisdom of Eve,” the 1946 short story on which the film is based, and its real-world inspiration; and a real-life Sarah Siddons Society based on the film’s fictional organization
  • Radio adaptation of the film from 1951
  • Promotion for the film featuring Davis
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Plus: An essay by critic Terrence Rafferty and “The Wisdom of Eve”

New cover by Greg Ruth


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TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • Two audio commentaries from 2010, one featuring actor Celeste Holm, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s son Christopher Mankiewicz, and author Kenneth L. Geist; the other featuring author Sam Staggs
  • All About Mankiewicz, a feature-length documentary from 1983 about the director
  • Episodes of The Dick Cavett Show from 1969 and 1980 featuring actors Bette Davis and Gary Merrill
  • New interview with costume historian Larry McQueen
  • Hollywood Backstories: “All About Eve,” a 2001 documentary featuring interviews with Davis and others about the making of the film
  • Documentaries from 2010 about Mankiewicz’s life and career; “The Wisdom of Eve,” the 1946 short story on which the film is based, and its real-world inspiration; and a real-life Sarah Siddons Society based on the film’s fictional organization
  • Radio adaptation of the film from 1951
  • Promotion for the film featuring Davis
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Plus: An essay by critic Terrence Rafferty and “The Wisdom of Eve”

New cover by Greg Ruth


All About Eve
Cast
Bette Davis
Margo Channing
Anne Baxter
Eve Harrington
George Sanders
Addison DeWitt
Celeste Holm
Karen Richards
Gary Merrill
Bill Sampson
Hugh Marlowe
Lloyd Richards
Gregory Ratoff
Max Fabian
Thelma Ritter
Birdie
Marilyn Monroe
Miss Casswell
Barbara Bates
Phoebe
Walter Hampden
Aged actor
Credits
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Written by
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Producer
Darryl F. Zanuck
Music
Alfred Newman
Director of photography
Milton Krasner
Art direction
Lyle Wheeler
Art direction
George W. Davis
Set decorations
Thomas Little
Set decorations
Walter M. Scott
Film editor
Barbara McLean
Wardrobe direction
Charles LeMaire
Costumes for Miss Bette Davis
Edith Head
Orchestration
Edward Powell
Makeup artist
Ben Nye
Sound
W. D. Flick
Sound
Roger Heman

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