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{{quote|"''Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night.''"|'''Margo Channing'''}}
Featuring what is perhaps [[Bette Davis]]'s most memorable performance, '''''All About Eve''''' is a 1950 [[Twentieth Century Fox]] film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, recounting the tale of Margo Channing, a seasoned veteran of the stage and the darling of Broadway, taking under her wing Eve Harrington, a young acolyte with nowhere else to go, whose motives are not what they seem. Other important characters include Addison DeWitt, a jaded, cynical, and frighteningly influential drama critic; Bill Samson, Margo's director boyfriend; Lloyd Richards, Margo's playwright; and Karen, Lloyd's wife and Margo's [[The Confidant|closest friend and confidant]]. The costumes were by famed Hollywood designer Edith Head and the film score was by [[Alfred Newman]].▼
▲Featuring what is perhaps [[Bette Davis]]'s most memorable performance, ''All About Eve'' is a 1950 [[Twentieth Century Fox]] film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, recounting the tale of Margo Channing, a seasoned veteran of the stage and the darling of Broadway, taking under her wing Eve Harrington, a young acolyte with nowhere else to go, whose motives are not what they seem. Other important characters include Addison DeWitt, a jaded, cynical, and frighteningly influential drama critic; Bill Samson, Margo's director boyfriend; Lloyd Richards, Margo's playwright; and Karen, Lloyd's wife and Margo's [[The Confidant|closest friend and confidant]]. The costumes were by famed Hollywood designer Edith Head and the film score was by [[Alfred Newman]].
''All About Eve'' was nominated for fourteen [[Academy Award|Academy Awards]] and won six, including Best Picture,
Best Supporting Actor (for George Sanders as Addison DeWitt), Best Costume Design for a Black-and-White film (Edith Head and Charles Le Maire), Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Sound Recording.
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: At least to modern viewers, Addison comes off as more than a little [[Camp Gay|camp]].
** There are a few (very subtle) instances in the film where you can also argue that Eve shows some [[Psycho Lesbian]] tendencies as well.
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Eve knows exactly what she wants and will stop at nothing to get it.
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Bill to Margo.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Eve, oh so much.
* [[Breaking Lecture]]: Addison, to Eve.▼
* [[Break the Haughty]]
▲* [[Breaking Lecture]]: Addison, to Eve.
* [[Camp Straight]]: Addison.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Eve, although she is [[Out
* [[Cynical Mentor]]: Margo has been in theater for many years, has seen it all, and knows just what makes audiences tick. Addison has much wisdom to offer to a promising young unknown, but certainly does not feel compassion for her or for anyone else.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: In-universe; Margo feels washed-up for playing a character so much younger than her actual age.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Margo, in spades. Also Addison and Birdie, to nearly as great an extent.
* [[Deal
* [[Drink Order]]: "I'll have a martini."
* [[Everybody Smokes]]
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Birdie. Played for laughs at first ("What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snapping at her rear end!"), but she's the first one to pick up on how Eve's devotion to Margo might not be all it seems to be.
* [[Gratuitous French]]: Used by a few characters.
* [[Green
* [[Heel Realization]]: Margo has one partway through the film.
* [[Here We Go Again]]: At the end, it's rather heavily intimated that Phoebe may be planning to do the same thing to Eve that Eve has done to Margo.
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* [[Informed Ability]]: We see a sliver of the incredible performance Eve gives that's supposed to kick-start her acting career... but considering her character is performing ''fabulously'' throughout the film, we can assume she's great.
** And Margo Channing, the great lady of the theater, compared to Helen Hayes and Jeanne Eagels by Addison: all we see of her performance in ''Aged in Wood'' is a glimpse of the curtain call.
* [[
* [[Lady Drunk]]: Margo.
* [[Lemony Narrator]]: The film is partially narrated by Addison, who has a rather low opinion of the other principal characters, and of humanity in general.
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: Bill, to some degree, and also Karen, are the only characters in the film who aren't massively screwed up and manipulating others for their own gain.
* [[The Only Way They Will Learn]]: [[Double Subversion|Doubly subverted]]. Karen deliberates on her plan to help Margo to get over herself. She finishes with "there's not even a reason why I shouldn't tell her," then, as she picks up the phone, adds, "in time." Subverted again, when it turns out ''Karen'' is the one without a clue.
* [[Pimped
* [[Pimped
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Particularly when some of the ladies comment enviously on a sable coat.
** Marilyn Monroe wearing an ermine coat.
** Margo jokes that she'll just wear a fur coat and a nightgown to her wedding.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Whatever her feelings for Margo (or Phoebe), it's about as clear as the Hays code would allow that Eve leans toward women, one scene even closing with her and a female cohort ''retiring arm in arm to their boudoir''.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Given to both Margo and Eve.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Margo.
* [[Shout
* [[Smug Snake]]: Eve.▼
* [[Spit Take]]
* [[Spock Speak]]: Bill describing the time to Margo in the car.
* [[Stalker
* [[The Stoic]]: Acerbic, icy, and unflappable, Addison is a Stoic to the very end, even when he would be entirely justified in showing some emotion. He feels passion only for the
▲* [[Smug Snake]]: Eve
▲* [[The Stoic]]: Acerbic, icy, and unflappable, Addison is a Stoic to the very end, even when he would be entirely justified in showing some emotion. He feels passion only for the theatre, such as his joyful reverence for Margo Channing even when she is having a theatrical temper tantrum.
** In one scene, Eve is able to make him lose his temper, something no one else ever comes close to doing.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]] / [[Villainous BSOD]]: Eve, whilst Addison coldly and efficiently obliterates her entire facade in private. She still goes on to win the award we see her win at the start of the film and is clearly going to be successful, but she's a shadow of her former self.
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{{Academy Award Best Picture}}
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{{AFI's 100 Years 100 Heroes and Villains}}
[[Category:Roger Ebert Great Movies List]]
[[Category:National Film Registry]]
[[Category:Danny Peary Cult Movies List]]
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