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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Actors:
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Hugh Marlowe,
Gary Merrill,
Celeste Holm,
Barbara Bates,
Bette Davis,
Anne Baxter,
George Sanders,
Gregory Ratoff,
Marilyn Monroe,
Thelma Ritter
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Duration:
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138 min.
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Rating:
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(8.4/10)104
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Plot Summary:
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Broadway legend Margo Channing, aging but not gracefully, has all things: a successful tear, inseparable friends, a man who loves her. She also has a 'lover' named Eve Harrington, who manages to worm her started into Margo's life, in contract for to "study her like a blueprint". Verge's sweet facade is soon seen through by a number of people, most shortly on theater critic Addison deWitt, who decides to appropriate for her mentor. Eve achieves her end of Broadway stardom, leaving a decrease of unhappiness, but ultimately contentment, behind her.
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All About Eve
Davis gives one of the performances of her life's work portraying aging showbiz diva Margot Channing with a stabbing broadcast of authenticity: the camp-site star, peaceful awesome but aware of the ravages of time and the foreboding of younger actresses snapping at her heels. What she needs is someone to tread her in all directions from, look after her and homage her, and that myself seems to make one's appearance in the form of Eve (Baxter), an outwardly innocent, adoring fan. But of process appearances can be counterfeit, and we know from the opportunity picture that somehow the mousey, unassuming Eve has herself change a hulking shooting star. Mankiewicz triumphs as gossip columnist and director. The piece fizzes with energy and the bitchy lines flow, larg...
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