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About Eve
Release date 13th October 1950
Country : USA
Running time : 138 mins
Genre : Drama
Starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Screenplay by Joseph L Mankiewicz
Directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz
An ambitious actress Eve Harrington ingratiates herself with the colleagues and friends of an ageing star. She impresses them and eventually finds herself in a position to become a star herself revealing her true colours as somebody who will sacrifice anything for her career.
A biting satire on the background of the theatre and its ambitious stars epitomised by the pointed comments of George Sanders' Addison de Witt who sees through Eve. Yes fasten your seat belts it will be an entertaining night watching this.
Claudette Colbert was the first choice for the part of Margo Channing but ruptured a disc during filming Three Came Home and had to withdraw allowing Bette Davis to take over.
Release date 13th October 1950
Country : USA
Running time : 138 mins
Genre : Drama
Starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Screenplay by Joseph L Mankiewicz
Directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz
An ambitious actress Eve Harrington ingratiates herself with the colleagues and friends of an ageing star. She impresses them and eventually finds herself in a position to become a star herself revealing her true colours as somebody who will sacrifice anything for her career.
A biting satire on the background of the theatre and its ambitious stars epitomised by the pointed comments of George Sanders' Addison de Witt who sees through Eve. Yes fasten your seat belts it will be an entertaining night watching this.
Claudette Colbert was the first choice for the part of Margo Channing but ruptured a disc during filming Three Came Home and had to withdraw allowing Bette Davis to take over.
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