About the Event
All About Eve
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(US, 1950, 138 min.)
Saturday, January 13, 7:00 pm
Our second Murfee Worsham film is a classic of the backstabbing and acid tongue variety. With Bette Davis, Ann Baxter, George Saunders, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, and Marilyn Monroe. Nominated for fourteen Academy Awards, winner of six.
“Growing older was a smart career move for Bette Davis, whose personality was adult, hard-edged and knowing. Never entirely comfortable as an ingenue, she was glorious as a professional woman, a survivor, or a bitchy predator. Her veteran actress Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) was her greatest role; it seems to show her defeated by the wiles of a younger actress, but in fact marks a victory: the triumph of personality and will over the superficial power of beauty. She never played a more autobiographical role” – Roger Ebert
“All About Eve is one of the greatest movies about theatre—an idea that, in itself, opens an ironic abyss into which Mankiewicz spelunks with an impish, riotous aplomb” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Discounted parking available at Founder’s Court, $6 flat rate, credit card required.
Free and open to the public.
