Where to watch All About Eve (1950)
All About Eve is available to stream in CA on Hollywood Suite. It can also be rented or bought from Amazon and AppleTV.
A determined young fan enters the world of Broadway and becomes assistant to a celebrated, aging actress. As she pursues a chance to step into the spotlight, ambition, insecurity, and rivalry create tension among the performers, writers, directors, and critics around them.
Cast: Anne Baxter, Bette Davis, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Gregory Ratoff, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Bates, Walter Hampden, Randy Stuart
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Trivia & production notes
- Mary Orr's short story 'The Wisdom of Eve' was inspired by Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner's true account of a young Englishwoman who waited outside the Booth Theatre, was taken into Bergner's dressing room, and later attempted to control her life.
- Fox acquired the film rights to 'The Wisdom of Eve' for $5,000 just days after the story was adapted into an NBC radio episode in January 1949.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz wrote an 82-page treatment called 'Best Performance' while simultaneously filming 'No Way Out', then spent six weeks at San Ysidro Ranch expanding it into the first draft.
- Studio head Darryl F. Zanuck suggested the specific phrasing 'All about Eve' for Addison DeWitt's voiceover narration, which became the film's title.
- Mankiewicz reduced his 223-page draft to 180 pages after receiving nine pages of notes from Zanuck detailing cuts and revisions.
- All About Eve was the first film to have its screenplay published in hardcover format when Random House published it in 1951.
- Bette Davis initially thought studio head Darryl F. Zanuck's phone call offering her the role was a prank, as they had not spoken since she resigned from the Academy.
- Mankiewicz rejected Gertrude Lawrence for the role of Margo Channing because her attorney demanded script changes including the removal of smoking and drinking scenes and the addition of a torch song.
- Marilyn Monroe was Mankiewicz's first choice for Miss Casswell and arrived one hour late on her first day of shooting, requiring 25 takes for her scene with George Sanders.
- Mankiewicz declined to cast Marlene Dietrich as Margo Channing, believing her German accent would be incompatible with the film's dialogue.
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