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Overview

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Writer:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (written by)
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Release Date:
15 January 1951 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
It's all about women---and their men!
Plot:
An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won 6 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 15 nominations more
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(26 articles)
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***** Perfect! more (238 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bette Davis ... Margo

Anne Baxter ... Eve
George Sanders ... Addison DeWitt
Celeste Holm ... Karen
Gary Merrill ... Bill Simpson
Hugh Marlowe ... Lloyd Richards
Gregory Ratoff ... Max Fabian
Barbara Bates ... Phoebe

Marilyn Monroe ... Miss Casswell
Thelma Ritter ... Birdie
Walter Hampden ... Aged Actor
Randy Stuart ... Eve's Pal on Telephone
Craig Hill ... Leading Man in 'Footsteps on the Ceiling'
Leland Harris ... Doorman
Barbara White ... Autograph Seeker
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Best Performance (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
138 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (video rating) (1987) | South Korea:15 | UK:U (2007) | USA:Approved (certificate #14544) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Brazil:Livre | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:S | Peru:14 | Spain:13 | West Germany:12

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Trivia:
Though most of the score is original music by Alfred Newman, the music during the car scene with Karen and Margo is an instrumental version of "Liebestraum" ("Love's Dream") by Franz Liszt, the same music the drunken, maudlin Margo had the pianist play over and over again during the party scene. The joke is that when she hears it again in the car (now sober, of course), she condemns it as "cheap sentimentality" and quickly turns it off. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After she arrives at home, Eve picks up one ice cube, puts it in the glass and pours a drink. Phoebe startles her and she drops the drink. Phoebe gathers the glass and two ice cubes. more
Quotes:
Eve Harrington: I won't play tonight. I couldn't, not possibly. I couldn't go on.
Addison DeWitt: Couldn't go on? You'll give the performance of your life.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "That Girl: All About Ann (#1.13)" (1966) more
Soundtrack:
Liebestraum more

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15 out of 19 people found the following comment useful.
***** Perfect!, 27 March 2001
Author: Bil-3 from Toronto, Ontario

Here's perfect writing if ever a movie ever had it-where did Joseph L. Mankiewicz come up with these people? Who would have thought he could not only revive Bette Davis' career with her greatest-ever role, but actually make her even more fascinating than she ever was before? Davis plays famous and established actress Margo Channing, a self-centred and tough but vulnerable woman who is purused relentlessly by Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), a seemingly innocent woman who worships Channing-she even becomes her personal assistant. However, her devotion soon becomes sinister, and Margo lets her friends know, though they just think she's being selfish and unfair. Celeste Holm is excellent as Margo's best friend, who at first is on Eve's side but eventually sees how conniving Eve can be and how ruthless she is in climbing to the top. The party scene early on in the film features some of the film's best lines (`Fasten your seat belts…it's going to be a bumpy night!'), though my personal favourite is when Davis tells Baxter to put her award `where you heart should be'; Margo Channing is just about the best female character of the fifties. Features Marilyn Monroe in an early role.

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