All About Eve

All About Eve1950

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill
Genre: Drama
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 138 minutes

Showered with Oscars, this wonderfully bitchy (and witty) comedy written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz concerns an aging theater star (Bette Davis) whose life is being supplanted by a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing ingenue (Anne Baxter) whom she he… more »



Bill:
The gong rang, the fight's over. Calm down.

Margo:
I will not calm down.

Bill:
Don't calm down.

Margo:
You're being terribly tolerant, aren't you?

Bill:
I'm trying terribly hard.

Margo:
But you needn't be. I will not be tolerated and I will not be plotted against.

Bill:
Here we go.

Margo:
Such nonsense. What do you all take me for - Little Nell from the country? Been my understudy for over a week without my knowing it, carefully hidden no doubt.

Bill:
I am sick and tired of these paranoiac outbursts

Margo:
Paranoiac!

Bill:
For the last time, I'll tell it to you. You've got to stop hurting yourself and me and the two of us by these paranoiac tantrums.

Margo:
Oh that word again, I don't even know what it means.

Bill:
Well it's about time you found out. I love you.

Margo:
Ha!

Bill:
I love you! You're a beautiful and an intelligent woman ...

Margo:
A body with a voice!

Bill:
A beautiful and an intelligent woman and a great actress. A great actress at the peak of her career. You have every reason for happiness.

Margo:
Except happiness!

Bill:
But due to some strange, uncontrollable, unconscious drive, you permit the slightest action of a kid ...

Margo:
(Sneering) A kid.

Bill:
... of a kid like Eve to turn you into an hysterical, screaming harpy. Now, once and for all, stop it!

Margo:
It's obvious you're not a woman.

Bill:
I've been aware of that for some time.

Margo:
Well I am.

Bill:
I'll say.

Margo:
Don't be condescending.

Bill:
C'mon, get up. I'll buy you a drink.

Margo:
I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.

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