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All About Eve

1950 ★ 138 min
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Erich Kästner
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck

All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It is based on the 1946 short story (and subsequent 1949 radio drama) "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, although Orr does not receive a screen credit.

Trivia

  • Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Director.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White.
  • Won the Academy Award for Best Sound.
  • Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
  • Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Academy Award for Best Actress; Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Academy Award for Best Film Editing; and 2 more.
  • Based on The Wisdom of Eve (1946 short story by Mary Orr).
  • All About Eve was based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve" written by Mary Orr and published in Cosmopolitan magazine in May 1946.
  • The story was a highly fictionalized account inspired by an anecdote related by Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner.
  • Bergner told Orr about a young Englishwoman who stood outside the Booth Theatre for several days.

Filming Locations

  • San Francisco
  • Connecticut

Previous Showings

18 Runs • 13 Festivals

21,442 tickets sold

Original Billings: 2 runs (November 12, 1950 - March 29, 1951)

Original Run: November 12, 1950 (Sunday - Friday)

All runs on record (18):

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