All About Eve Page #3

Synopsis: Backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrington. Tattered and forlorn, Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing, telling a melancholy life story to Margo and her friends. Margo takes Eve under her wing, and it appears that Eve is a conniver that uses Margo.
Genre: Drama
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Won 6 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.3
Metacritic:
98
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
1950
138 min
1,187 Views


AGED ACTOR:

-that have made her name resound

through the nation. We know her

humility. Her devotion, her loyalty

to her art.

Addison's glance moves from Karen to Margo.

AGED ACTOR:

Her love, her deep and abiding love

for us-

Margo's face is a mask. She looks down at the drink which

she cradles with both hands.

AGED ACTOR:

for what we are and what we do. The

Theater. She has had one wish, one

prayer, one dream. To belong to us.

(he's nearing his

curtain line)

Tonight her dream has come true.

And henceforth we shall dream the

same of her.

(a slight pause)

Honored members, ladies and gentlemen -

for distinguished achievement in the

Theater - the Sarah Siddons Award to

Miss Eve Harrington.

The entire room is galvanized into sudden and tumultuous

applause. Some enthusiastic gentlemen rise to her feet...

Flash bulbs start popping about halfway down the table of

the Aged Actor's left...

Eve rises - beautiful, radiant, poised, exquisitely gowned.

She stands in simple and dignified response to the ovation.

A dozen photographers skip, squat, and dart about like water

bugs. Flash bulbs pop and pop and pop...

THE WAITERS applaud enthusiastically...

AGED ACTOR, Award in hand, he beams at her...

EVE smiles sweetly to her left, then to her right...

MAX has come to. He applauds lustily.

ADDISON's applauding too, more discreetly.

MARGO, not applauding. But you sense no deliberate slight,

merely an impression that as she looks at Eve her mind is on

something else...

KAREN, nor is she applauding. But her gaze is similarly fixed

on Eve in a strange, faraway fashion.

ADDISON, still applauding, his eyes flash first at Margo and

then at Karen. Then he directs them back to Eve. He smiles

ever so slightly.

The applause has continued unabated. EVE turns now, and moves

gracefully toward the Aged Actor. She moves through applauding

ladies and gentlemen; from below the flash bulbs keep

popping...

As she nears her goal, the Ages Actor turns to her. He holds

out the award. Her hand reaches out for it. At that precise

moment - with the award just beyond her fingertips - THE

PICTURE HOLDS, THE ACTION STOPS. The SOUND STOPS.

ADDISON'S VOICE

Eve. Eve, the Golden Girl. The cover

girl, the girl next door, the girl

on the moon... Time has been good to

Eve, Life goes where she goes - she's

been profiled, covered, revealed,

reported, what she eats and when and

where, whom she knows and where she

was and when and where she's going...

ADDISON has stopped applauding, he's sitting forward, staring

intently at Eve... his narration continues unbroken.

ADDISON'S VOICE

...Eve. You all know all about Eve...

what can there be to know that you

don't know...?

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and he twice won the Academy Award for both Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950). more…

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