Synopsis
All About Eve (1950) is Joseph L. Mankiewicz's razor-sharp Broadway drama you can watch online on iFILM. Aging stage star Margo Channing opens her door to a shy, adoring fan. It is the worst decision of her career.
Eve Harrington arrives as the perfect assistant, word-perfect on every line her idol ever spoke, eager to anticipate each need. The meekness is a mask. One careful move at a time she slips into Margo's roles, turns the head of her director and her playwright, and pries old friends apart. Only the venomous critic Addison DeWitt reads her game, and their duel of two predators drives the film. A very young Marilyn Monroe turns up in a small early part.
Bette Davis as Margo and Anne Baxter as Eve made this study of ambition and jealousy a benchmark for screenwriting. Mankiewicz's picture won six Academy Awards and still holds the record for acting nominations, with lines quoted to this day, including the immortal warning to fasten your seatbelts. Stream All About Eve (1950) online on iFILM.
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