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:
...you did it. With work and patience, you'll be a good actress if that's what you want to be.

Eve:
[purring] Is that what you want me to be?

Bill:
I'm talking about you and what you want.

Eve:
So am I.

Bill:
What have I got to do with it?

Eve:
Everything.

Bill:
Names I've been called, but never Svengali. Good luck.

Eve:
Don't run away, Bill.

Bill:
From what would I be running?

Eve:
You're always after truth on the stage. What about off?

Bill:
I'm for it.

Eve:
Then face it. I have. Ever since that first night here in this dressing room.

Bill:
When I told you what every young actress should know?

Eve:
When you told me that whatever I became it would be because of you...

Bill:
Makeup's a little heavy.

Eve:
...and for you.

Bill:
You're quite a girl.

Eve:
You think?

Bill:
I'm in love with Margo. Hadn't you heard?

Eve:
You hear all kinds of things.

Bill:
I'm only human, rumors to the contrary. And I'm as curious as the next man.

Eve:
Find out.

Bill:
The only thing - what I go after, I want to go after. I don't want it to come after me. Don't cry. Just score it as an incomplete forward pass.

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