
All About Eve
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(5.00 / 1 vote)FADE IN:
INT. DINING HALL - SARAH SIDDONS SOCIETY - NIGHT
It is not a large room and jammed with tables, mostly for
four but some for six and eight. A long table of honor, for
about thirty people, has been placed upon a dais.
Diner is over. Demi-tasses, cigars and brandy. The overall
effect is one of worn elegance and dogged gentility. It is
June.
The CAMERA, as it has been throughout the CREDIT TITLES, is
on the SARAH SIDDONS AWARD. It is a gold statuette, about a
foot high, of Sarah Siddons as The Tragic Muse. Exquisitely
framed in a nest of flowers, it rests on a miniature altar
in the center of the table of honor.
Over this we hear the crisp, cultured, precise VOICE of
ADDISON deWITT:
ADDISON'S VOICE
Distinguished Achievement is perhaps
unknown to you. It has been spared
the sensational and commercial
publicity that attends such
questionable "honors" as the Pulitzer
Prize and those awards presented
annually by the film society...
The CAMERA has EASED BACK to include some of the table of
honor and a distinguished gentleman with snow-white hair who
is speaking. We do not hear what he says.
ADDISON'S VOICE
The distinguished looking gentleman
is an extremely old actor. Being an
actor - he will go on speaking for
some time. It is not important that
you hear what he says.
The CAMERA EASES BACK some more, and CONTINUES until it
iscloses a fairly COMPREHENSIVE SHOT of the room
ADDISON'S VOICE
However it is important that you
know where you are, and why you are
here. This is the dining room of the
Sarah Siddons Society. The occasion
is its annual banquet and presentation
of the highest honor our Theater
knows - the Sarah Siddons Award for
Distinguished Achievement.
A GROUP OF WAITERS are clustered near the screen masking the
entrances of the kitchen. The screens are papered with old
theatrical programs. The waiters are all aged and venerable.
They look respectfully toward the speaker.
ADDISON'S VOICE
These hollowed walls, indeed many of
these faces, have looked upon
Modjeska, Ada Rehan and Minnie Fiske;
Mansfield's voice filled the room,
Booth breathed this air. It is
unlikely that the windows have been
opened since his death.
CLOSE - THE AWARD on its altar, it shines proudly above five
or six smaller altars which surround it and which are now
empty.
ADDISON'S VOICE
The minor awards, as you can see,
have already been presented. Minor
awards are for such as the writer
and director - since their function
is merely to construct a tower so
that the world can applaud a light
which flashes on top of it and no
brighter light has ever dazzled the
eye than Eve Harrington. Eve... but
more of Eve, later. All about Eve,
in fact.
THE CAMERA MOVES TO: CLOSE - ADDISON deWITT, not young, not
unattractive, a fastidious dresser, sharp of eye and merciless
of tongue. An omnipresent cigarette holder projects from his
mouth like the sward of D'Artagnan.
He sits back in his chair, musingly, his fingers making little
cannonballs out of bread crumbs. His narration covers the
MOVE of the CAMERA to him:
ADDISON'S VOICE
To those of you who do not read,
attend the Theater, listen to
uncensored radio programs or know
anything of the world in which we
live - it is perhaps necessary to
introduce myself. My name is Addison
deWitt. My native habitat is the
Theater - in it I toil not, neither
do I spin. I am a critic and
commentator. I am essential to the
Theater - as ants are to a picnic,
as the boll weevil to a cotton
field...
He looks to his left. KAREN RICHARDS is lovely and thirtyish
in an unprofessional way. She is scraping bread crumbs,
spilled sugar, etc., into a pile with a spoon. Addison takes
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