All About Eve: Difference between revisions

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.

 

* [[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.

* [[Break the Haughty]]

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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''.

* [[Rich Bitch]]: Margo.

* [[Shout Out to Shakespeare]]: ''[[Macbeth (Theatre)|Macbeth]]'', specifically.