All About Eve (1950) Queer Film A+

All About Eve

DIRECTOR: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

PRODUCER: Darryl F. Zanuck for TCF

Anne Baxter plays the scheming understudy Eve Harrington, while George Sanders plays the influential drama critic Addison DeWitt. Both Eve and Addison are gay, and Addison blackmails Eve, letting her know how much they have in common:

That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability, but that, in itself, is probably the reason. You’re an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, a contempt for humanity, an inability to love and be loved, insatiable ambition – and talent. We deserve each other…and you realize, and you agree how completely you belong to me?

Addison DeWitt (George Sanders) to Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) in All About Eve

All About Eve

Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s masterpiece is based on one of the greatest screenplays ever written (by Mankiewicz from Mary Orr’s short story The Wisdom of Eve). It highlights the most extraordinary, cherished, quoted, and imitated performance of all time by Hollywood’s most outstanding actress, Bette Davis, as Margo Channing.

One of the best casts ever assembled for a motion picture, Left to Right, as pictured above: Gary Merrill, Bette Davis, George Sanders, Anne Baxter, Hugh Marlowe, and Celeste Holm. Also featured were Thelma Ritter (getting the first of her six best supporting actress nominations), Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates, and, making quite an impression in her second major part (after The Asphalt Jungle over at MGM), Marilyn Monroe.

Cinematography: Milton Krasner

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