![]() Because you’d like to get everyone you can hooked on “Eve.” Trying to say why you love “All About Eve” so much is like attempting to tell a dog person why you like cats. There are deliciously campy supporting characters from Birdie (played fabulously by Thelma Ritter) to producer Max Fabian (Gregory Ratoff). But, in truth, Eve is an habitual liar with no conscience who’ll do anything to benefit her career as an actress (from taking Margo’s roles away from her to seducing the theater critic Addison DeWitt (George Sanders). Unless you’ve lived with your head under a rock, you either know the plot of “Eve” or have seen references to it in pop culture (in everything from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” to “The Simpsons”).Įve (Anne Baxter) seems to be an innocent young, worshipful fan of the theater and of actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). The fake BFF who makes a move on your spouse. (Think of the young employee you’ve mentored who goes after your job. Its wit still sparkles, its camp delights and its story resonates with anyone who’s run up against treachery and deceit. Yet “All About Eve” has aged as well as a fine vintage wine. ![]() But even I have to admit that some of Tinseltown’s “classics” are as out of date as MySpace or your great-grandma’s girdle. Seventy years ago, in October 1950, “All About Eve,” written and directed by Joseph L. ![]() ![]() But, lovers of Oscar Wilde, camp, Bette Davis, and, of course, Thelma Ritter, know: there are Eve obsessives and, well, other people. ![]()
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