Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950. Disc one. Special features: Commentary by Celeste Holm, Mankiewicz biographer Ken Geist and Christopher Mankiewicz [optional audio feature]; Commentary by author Sam Staggs [optional audio feature]; Isolated score track [optional audio feature]. Disc two. Special features: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz [featurette] (26 min.); Joseph L. Mankiewicz: A personal journey [featurette] (26 min.); The real Eve [featurette] (18 min.); The secret of Sarah Siddons (7 min.); AMC's Backstory: 'All About Eve' [featurette] (25 min.); Vintage Bette Davis promotion (2 min.); Vintage Anne Baxter promotion (2 min.); Fox Movietone News (9 min.); Restoration comparison [text feature with film clips]; Theatrical trailer (3 min.); Interactive pressbook gallery [slide show]; Poster gallery [slide show]; Still gallery [slide show]. Bette Davis (Margo Channing), Anne Baxter (Eve Harrington), George Sanders (Addison DeWitt), Celeste Holm (Karen), Gary Merrill (Bill Simpson), Hugh Marlowe (Lloyd Richards), Gregory Ratoff (Max Fabian), Thelma Ritter (Birdie), Marilyn Monroe (Miss Casswell), Barbara Bates (Phoebe), Walter Hampden (Aged actor).
Contents:
Main titles -- Sarah Siddons Award -- Only last October -- Meet Margo Channing -- How it started -- What is theater? -- At the airport -- Eve moves in -- Midnight caller -- Paranoiac insecurity -- Bill's welcome home birthday party -- New understudy -- Breed apart -- Party's over -- Mass of fire and music -- Coming unglued -- Perfectly harmless joke -- Forward pass -- Addison's review -- Lloyd's idea? -- Cub Room -- Simple exchange of favors -- "What's so funny?" -- 'Footsteps on the Ceiling' -- Killer to killer -- Night to remember -- Phoebe -- End titles.
Summary:
Set in the world of theater, with its temperamental and insecure personalities and actors who don't know when to stop acting, this is a story of pretense and fantasy. Breathless fan Eve Harrington worms her way into the confidence of Broadway star Margo Channing. Eve becomes first her secretary, then her understudy, then her rival. Only one person sees through Eve's act: Birdie, Margo's wardrobe woman. Survivors of Eve's savage climb to the top include theater critic Addison DeWitt, director Bill Sampson, playwright Lloyd Richards and his wife Karen.
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