All About Eve

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Summary: One of the best American films ever made.
Review: This film is timeless. Every time I see it, I enjoy it more and more! The acting and dialogue are unequalled. This film is worth it just to hear Davis' classic "Fasten your seatbelts" line.

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Summary: Dynamite Davis!
Review: Bette Davis should have won her third Oscar in this brilliant and dynamic masterpiece about the rough and tumble life behind the scenes of Broadway. Instead, she lost out to some blonde, insipid nobody, Judy HOliday, who only a few film buffs remember today. This role should have convinced movie moguls they had a genius in their midst but they let Bette waste, offering her zilch, for over a decade until she came back in l962 in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. Bette's best scenes are with her wise old companion/secretary/caretaker, thelma ritter. A great sequel could have been made based on just those two characters. I understand Hollywood has now approached Roseanne Barr (Good God!) to portray Margo in a remake. The Eve character would be pop-singer Brandy (we do have to be politically correct about these things). Let's all pray this is only a fantasy of some lunatic schlock producer. Bravo Bette, Thelma and everyone else in All About Eve--a rare classic.

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Summary: best film ever made...bar none
Review: i have seen this movie over 65 times. I have a copy of the screenplay. I have the audio soundtrack on casette tape. I have posters of the movie hanging on my walls. I have an annual All About Eve party. Im obsessed. this is the best film ever made. period

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Summary: Such good acting it seems real.
Review: Bette's a bitch, Anne's a witch, and they're both great! No one plays drunk like Bette Davis. Anne Baxter is probably best known for the movie "The Ten Commandments," but this is essential Baxter. This movie is perfect; that's all you can say about it.

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Summary: a true classic!
Review: This film has great stars and a great story of a young woman's comeuppance on broadway. Bette Davis is brilliant as Margo Channing, who has one of the best lines of the film... 'FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS, IT'S GOING TO BE A BUMPY NIGHT" A first rate cast and marilyn monroe, in one of her early small roles, help make this story one the true classics of all time. A must see!

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Summary: A classic!
Review: The snappiest dialogue ever written, with an outstanding cast. Wonderful

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Summary: Not even "TITANIC" can equal this winner.
Review: "All About Eve" deserves the sole right to be the only film to have earned 14 Oscar nominations. I truly love this picture and have seen it like over 25 times now and can never get enough of it. As a writer I cannot even begin to figure out just how Mankiewicz so giftedly came up with such superb theatrical dialogue and situations that evoke the true spirit of life in the theater. The character of Addison DeWitt is truly remarkable. Who can't love the beguiling sixth sense he has on Eve and her hideous deception upon the great Margo Channing? This film is both funny and serious, thus serving as the perfect mixture for any great picture. The humor comes from Davis and Ritter in their smart cracks about this and that and who can't chuckle at the remarks Sanders makes about Eve, the theater, and life itself, particularly when he says that he leaves all loves to Louisa May Alcott. When I first saw this film back on a cold, rainy and dismal Sunday morning in December of 1996 and unable to make it to church I just popped this into the VCR because I had just bought it the day before, simply because it is one of the greatest achievements to ever come out of Hollywood. I immediately fell in love with it and totally forgot all about the depression in the weather outside. The magnificent blend of humor and drama has the power to banish all doldrums in life and this film does just that and more. I watched it like 4 times that week and still have yet to get tired of it and I doubt I ever will. No film before or since has ever come close to the magic of this one, which shines with a great cast assemblage and rising Marilyn Monroe to everlasting fame in her small role at the party in the film. All theater buffs and fans of the stage should see this film and learn from it, as should filmmakers. It teaches us that we should strive to do our best in life on our own and not use the reputation of some idol we admire to transform ourselves into something we were not meant to be. It's no wonder it won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1950. My family and I truly love and treasure this film as did my cousin who truly loves the theater and has played Anne Frank on the stage. I urge all movie collectors, especially if you love the classics as I do, to get this and add it to your collection if you don't already. No video shelf should be without this classic, for it so vividly represents Hollywood at its very best.

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Summary: give it ten stars!
Review: this movie is the first one i saw with Bette, and it definitely is one of the best movies i've ever seen. Anne Baxter is excellent as well, it's one of those movies you could watch over and over again, worth buying really

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Summary: Fasten your seatbelts! Its going to be a bumpy night!
Review: I believe to be Bette Davis's best movie! "Fasten your seatbelts! This is going to be a bumpy night!" I love it! How can you top the way only Bette can deliver that line and mean it too! Yes, Fasten your seatbelts! this movie rocks and rolls!

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Summary: Witty and Splendid!
Review: You will have to look a long time for a film with a script and cast like this." All About Eve" is a true metaphor for how films used to be made. Its here that George Sanders pulls out all stops in his elitist character critic Addison DeWitt. His narrations are biting and superb and only equaled in the film " The Picture of Dorian Gray" We should all be thankfull that this film has never been remade...because It,s perfection.