Film Forum

U.S., 1950
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Thelma Ritter, Celeste Holm
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, 1951
Approx. 139 min.

“Fasten your seat belts! It's going to be a bumpy night!” A bumpy night indeed, as Anne Baxter’s Eve schemes to de-throne Bette Davis’ Margo Channing on stage and in love, while George Sanders’ venomous Addison DeWitt sees the career of “Copacabana School of the Arts” graduate Marilyn Monroe’s career “rising in the East like the sun.” “Hollywood’s most sparkling comedy of manners (the bad manners of misbehaving Broadway insiders)... A talking picture abuzz with literate, biting dialogue, the hiss and crackle of bitchy repartee.” – Foster Hirsch

Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s and The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film

Reviews

“Bette Davis is at her most instinctive and assured.”
– Pauline Kael

“Joseph Mankiewicz was Hollywood’s midcentury master of comic drama, and ALL ABOUT EVE, from 1950, was one of his signal achievements.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker