All about Eve

Genre: Drama

Year of release: 1950

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz



"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" I just watched this movie a second ago for the first time, I loved it. I had my doubts at first as it looked and sounded like a boring, well acted but dull sort of romance, comedy. All about Eve is not dull, it may not be super fast paced but it is a true classic, it has inspired me to watch more of the older more classic movies that I had first glanced over at the video store because they looked dull or boring. All about Eve can be easily enjoyed by both genders however i wonder if I would enjoy it more if I was a women.

This classic tale tells the story of Eve and her trip from rags to riches, from a theater fanatic who worships a specific actress, Margo (Bette Davis), into an award winning actress winning one of the greatest theater awards for acting that they give out. The acting in this is pretty damn good the thing i love about classics the acting was damn good ... from everyone. Bette Davis was great as Margo, Anne Baxter was great as Eve everyone in this movie was fabulous. This movie was boosted up a lot because of its ending for me at least that is. Also the start was quite good starting from the award ceremony for Eve then taking a still shot as George Sanders and Celeste Holm narrate then working its working its way backwards to explain "All about Eve".

The acting was great, i think people were better at acting back a few years, now days people are so obsessed with making money that they forget to act properly. Bette Davis was very convincing of her character, a childish, loud,mood swinging, tantra throwing actress. I personally liked Bette's character quite a lot, she was hard to figure out and she knew it. Eve Anne Baxter's character was also quite good she is quite and shy however as the story goes evolves to be more like her idol Bette, more confident, speaks louder.

This is the first movie I have seen that has Marilyn Monroe in it I quite enjoy her as she was funny through slightly dim witted attitude "Well, I can't yell "Oh butler!" can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler". George Sanders was a very good theater critic I liked him right from the start however by the end I liked him a lot more.

I really enjoy narration, well good narration, like in Apocalypse now, Goodfellas, Fight club as it seems to make me more in the mood for the movie, it draws me into the story and makes me forget I am watching a movie. So the narration at the start of this movie I also enjoyed. In the beginning (lol that seems kinda cliche) of All about Eve we begin at the Ceremony for Eve as an actress and the thing I liked was the technique used, in the midst of the narration the film stops still and we a left with just a picture of Eve reaching for her award and we go back to where it all began until we come back to the same picture and we continue from there, once of course we know "All about Eve".

In conclusion a great movie its well acted, good story, great end and beginning, a little bit of humor and deserving of being remembered for another 50 years and another and another untill the end of time.

9.5/10