All About Eve (1950)
97%RT Audience Score: 94%
Awards & Nominations: Won 6 Oscars
26 wins & 20 nominations total
Smart, sophisticated, and devastatingly funny, All About Eve is a Hollywood classic that only improves with age.
If you’re looking for a movie that’s got it all – brains, beauty, and belly laughs – then All About Eve is the one for you. This flick is a total Hollywood legend, and it just keeps getting better with time. It’s smart, it’s sophisticated, and it’s got more zingers than a stand-up comedy routine. Seriously, you’ll be quoting this movie for days after you watch it. So grab some popcorn, settle in, and get ready to be wowed by one of the all-time greats.
Production Company(ies)
Twentieth Century Fox,
Distributor
20th Century Fox, Fox
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Curran Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Passed
Year of Release
1950
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:1.37 : 1
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Runtime:2h 18m
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Language(s):English, French
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Oct 13, 1950 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 5, 2004
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, George
Worldwide gross: $151,052
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $2,132,400
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,395
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 232,541
US/Canada gross: $63,463
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $895,907
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,213
US/Canada opening weekend: $10,177
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $143,669
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,802
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $1,400,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $19,763,791
Production budget ranking: 1,374
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $10,642,802
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): -$28,274,193
ROI to date (est.): -93%
ROI ranking: 1,974
Anne Baxter – Eve Harrington
Celeste Holm – Karen Richards
George Sanders – Addison De Witt
Gary Merrill – Bill Sampson
Hugh Marlowe – Lloyd Richards
Director(s)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer(s)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Producer(s)
Darryl F. Zanuck
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Won 6 Oscars
26 wins & 20 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Picture Winners, Oscar Winners
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All Critics (107) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (106) | Rotten (1)
The script is well capable of carrying out the film’s intentions — it is, indeed, an admirable piece of work and not lacking in wit.
February 17, 2022
Times (UK) Staff
Times (UK)
TOP CRITIC
So breath-takingly sharp and tense a story of the theater could hardly be so vital without some fragments of truth In its background.
April 6, 2021
Helen Bower
Detroit Free Press
TOP CRITIC
All About Eve is undoubtedly the best picture of the year, even better than Sunset Boulevard.
April 6, 2021
Marjory Adams
Boston Globe
TOP CRITIC
A scintillating, stimulating, extraordinary achievement.
April 2, 2021
Mildred Martin
Philadelphia Inquirer
TOP CRITIC
Get a baby-sitter and go see this one. Unfortunately, Hollywood doesn’t turn out enough films of this calibre.
April 2, 2021
Irvin Farman
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
TOP CRITIC
It is so well and amusingly written that, in spite of its enormous length the obvious artificiality of its plot, and the flagrant exaggeration of its only-too-wicked people, it never really flags.
April 2, 2021
Guardian Staff
Guardian
TOP CRITIC
Bette Davis has never done anything better.
February 17, 2022
Reg Whitley
Daily Mirror (UK)
It has been a long time since the screen has offered us anything as adult, as full of insight, or (in the favorable sense of the word) as sophisticated as All About Eve.
February 10, 2022
Leo Rosten
The Reporter
Allows its stars to chew up the scenery whilst taking swipes at the stereotypes and clichés of Broadway theatre.
August 17, 2021
Rob Aldam
Backseat Mafia
All About Eve does a very difficult thing consummately. It deals with the egotistical, over-articulate, emotionally undisciplined people of the theatre and paints them as credible human beings rather than eccentric caricatures.
July 15, 2021
Moira Walsh
America Magazine
It is smart and shiny and it is sparked by a set of high-voltage performances that wring just about every ounce of wit out of director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s crackling script
July 13, 2021
Ezra Goodman
Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)
As the young hopeful whose pretended naivete and ingratiating manners mask a hard, ruthless determination, Anne Baxter is at her dramatic best.
April 6, 2021 | Rating: 3/3
Liza Wilson
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Plot
Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her idol, talented but aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). It seems innocent enough as Eve explains that she has seen Margo in EVERY performance of her current play. Margo and her friends take Eve under their wing but only theatre critic Addison DeWitt (George Sanders) sees through Eve’s evil plan, which is to take Margo’s parts and her fiancé, Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill) too.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
There is no mention of any cast members in this section of the Fresh Kernels website.
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