All About Eve

I liked it, but it's sort of a very simple story told in a simple way. (With A-list actors.) "Giant" was like that, too.

Fasten your seatbelts, ladies....

Thia thread will end in hissy fits.

R3 "Thia"? Where are you from lady?

Typoland.

R5 Betty

Actually holds up well after several viewings over the years

This thread is certainly going nowhere.

R9 Most people who cower here wouldn't dream of allowing themselves to take this anywhere, because they are very afraid of your cutting whit (sic).

DL villainess Celeste Holm gives the best performance. She does a lot with what could have been a nothing part. Not a nice person but a wonderful talent. Like a lot of actors.

De trop

R11 Celeste Holm was a trouper. Always loved her.

[quote] because they are very afraid of your cutting whit (sic).

Cutting DeWitt.

Sunset Boulevard is better.

Great performances by the actresses and the actor who played Addison DeWitt. The playwright character was a block of wood. Mr. Bette Davis was just okay.

And how can you hate a movie with Thelma Ritter?

[quote]Mr. Bette Davis was just okay.

Mr.? Is this another example of whit?

Bad dress design, but she took Tim’s advice and made it work

It's one of the best written scripts of all time.

Ladies and Germs:

Mr. Bette Davis, a.k.a. Gary Merrill.

Mr. Bette Davis was an underrated actor in my opinion.

[quote]It's one of the best written scripts of all time.

Agreed. It's the very definition of a movie that holds up to multiple viewings.

Is it worth seeing? I've never made it past the first scene in Bette Davis' dressing room. So much talking.

[quote]Why was Ali replaced?

You have to wait until after the dressing room scene to get to the explosions and car chases.

Perhaps not if you're daunted by dialogue, R24. I do agree that "slow curtains, the end" would have been well punctuated with a rear-ender.

Oh I don't mind dialogue, but there's so much talking. And narration. So old fashioned. I guess most of you saw it at the movie theater when it first came out. Sometimes that makes a difference. Is Bette Davis being chased in the car in that meme upthread? Car chases weren't very well done back then were they?

The first time I saw the Phoebe scene (back when AMC was still a good channel) Barbara Bates' ending scene at the mirror gave me goose bumps.

Vanity Fair had an article devoted to it and described it as being one of the films that feels so "adult" because of the quick dialogue and its nature. It's what people wished they could talk like.

It was like Aaron Sorkin wrote it before he was born.

Aaron Sorkin is not as good a writer. He uses a lot of extra words. The script for All About Eve doesn't have a wasted letter.

George Sanders is unsurpassed in this role.

I'm wondering how Addison would have fared with Clifton Webb or Claude Rains.

There's a lot of talking because it's what they call a talkie. You know a movie where people have something to say to one another that doesn't require a gun or explosion to get a point across. Today they have sound films but it's a very different thing.

I can think of a few scenes when a gun would've come in handy.

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AKA "All About ME!!!"

Well it’s on TCM right now, and I am watching it for the billionth time. Someone help me out, I’m still not sure of the relationship between Addison and Eve. When she goes into the shower and tells him “you take charge,” and he says “I believe I will,” he looks at her like he really wants to fuck her. And yet, and yet… What are we to make of this?

You mean Summers Eve, right OP?

OP is correct. The film is not worth a second viewing, unless you understand and appreciate terrific writing and good acting performances. Except for those two things... eh.

Addison DeWitt is not gay, R37. He's affected, but he's straight. Like George Sanders, the actor who plays him. He was too grand by half, but he married four times, including two of the Gabor sisters.

OP, Sunset Boulevard is a much better film. Watch that instead.

R40 I tend to agree, though it has been theorized that he and Eve bond over being "different."

Of course Miss Caswell alludes to him being a horndog. "Honey, you won't even get a chance to talk."

OP is too short for that gesture.

It didn't hold my interest because it's in black and white.

R37, he's not referring to taking charge sexually. It's a preamble to his dissemblance of her fabricated history when he confronts her with what he knows.

That is, his disassembling of her dissemblance.

The recent stage version with Gillian Anderson was a travesty, got everything wrong, but especially the casting

R45 Ah, interesting interpretation.....

Addison is labeled a "venomous fishwife" by Lloyd Richards in what I take is a swipe at is sexuality, or perhaps bisexuality.

[quote]He was too grand by half, but he married four times, including two of the Gabor sisters.

No wonder he killed himself.

[quote]Addison is labeled a "venomous fishwife" by Lloyd Richards

Are you sure he wasn't talking about Patti LuPone?

Multiple marriages, as in more than three, is a frequent symptom of the concealed, extremely closeted individual. The marriages dissolve as he/she can no longer feign sexual desire.

All About Eve or Sunset Boulevard- it's like choosing between Da Vinci and Michelangelo, or Mozart and Beethoven- you just enjoy the greatness. Repeatedly.

R50, trying to wrestle down two Gabors is enough to kill anyone.

OP is the kind of smug twit who brags about his wealth of ignorance.