But how I adore hating her!Īddison DeWitt is seen with the aspiring actress Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) on his arm. In another scene, she walks arm-and-arm up the stairs with another woman (who seems like a girlfriend – if Eve possessed an iota of affection for anyone).Įve isn’t a queer role model for me.
In the opening scene, she’s wearing (for the 1950s) an “unfeminine” trench coat and hat. As others have pointed out, Eve appears to be a lesbian (though coded). But, he imbues “Eve” with a queer sensibility. “But it’s not adult like “Midnight Cowboy,” he added. “All about Eve” is a movie for grown-ups, Miles David Moore, film critic for Scene4 told me in a phone interview. “I wanted to write not as a detached observer but rather from the point of view of an audience member trying to figure out why I like the movie so much,” Staggs writes, “and why I still find it fresh after thirty or forty viewings.” Staggs’s book, a meticulously researched “bio” of “Eve,” is an indispensable guide to all aspects of the movie – from its script to its actors to “Applause,” (the Broadway musical of “Eve” starring Lauren Bacall). “All About Eve is, to me, is one of the most entertaining movies ever made,” writes Sam Staggs in “All About All About Eve.” Because you’d like to get everyone you can hooked on “Eve.”
Trying to say why you love “All About Eve” so much is like attempting to tell a dog person why you like cats. There are deliciously campy supporting characters from Birdie (played fabulously by Thelma Ritter) to producer Max Fabian (Gregory Ratoff). But, in truth, Eve is an habitual liar with no conscience who’ll do anything to benefit her career as an actress (from taking Margo’s roles away from her to seducing the theater critic Addison DeWitt (George Sanders). Unless you’ve lived with your head under a rock, you either know the plot of “Eve” or have seen references to it in pop culture (in everything from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” to “The Simpsons”).Įve (Anne Baxter) seems to be an innocent young, worshipful fan of the theater and of actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). The fake BFF who makes a move on your spouse. (Think of the young employee you’ve mentored who goes after your job. Its wit still sparkles, its camp delights and its story resonates with anyone who’s run up against treachery and deceit. Yet “All About Eve” has aged as well as a fine vintage wine. But even I have to admit that some of Tinseltown’s “classics” are as out of date as MySpace or your great-grandma’s girdle. Seventy years ago, in October 1950, “All About Eve,” written and directed by Joseph L. But, lovers of Oscar Wilde, camp, Bette Davis, and, of course, Thelma Ritter, know: there are Eve obsessives and, well, other people.
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