‘All About Eve’ packs Oscar punch in 1950
“Sunset Blvd.” wasn’t the only unforgettable dark satire about show business that came out in 1950.
“All About Eve,” a brilliant evocation of the backbiting world of actors, writers and producers, actually dominated the Academy Awards that year. Nominated for 14 Oscars, “All About Eve” earned six, including best picture, director and screenplay for Joseph L. Mankiewicz and supporting actor for George Sanders as the acerbic critic Addison DeWitt.
The film was a great comeback vehicle for Bette Davis, stealing the show as the aging theater star Margo Channing who befriends aspiring actress Eve Harrington ( Anne Baxter), only to have the young woman try to steal her career and her love life.
“Eve” also marked one of the first major films for Marilyn Monroe, who played the beautiful but dimwitted Miss Caswell.
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