Film

All About Eve 1950

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  • Drama
  • 139 min
  • PG

It's all about women... and their men!

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Dramaplaywrighthollywoodblack and whiterelationshipinsecuritybroadwaybased on short storybroadway starmanipulative womanstage struckhomewreckerenchant

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Character

Meticulous, prestige, grave and character-led.

  • rawmeticulous
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • gravecomic
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • sparerichly built

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24 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Genre Devotees.

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