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1950 |
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DRAMA
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Length: |
138 |
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MIXED Reviews
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| | | "A cynical story of the theatre which never moves beyond the modish. It is a very long piece (two hours and a-quarter) and it often seems long, though never when Bette Davis is on the screen; Miss Davis as the Broadway star, insolent, stormy, waspish and terrified of growing old, is magnificent. There is a beautifully modelled portrait, too, from Anne Baxter as the girl who sidles in, all heroine-worship and modest violetry, and schemes to supplant the established actress; and George Sanders is in form as that constant villain of films about stage or cinema, the critic. All About Eve , in short, is an accomplished piece of film-manufacture, a tale smartly written as well as smartly directed by Joseph Mankiewicz; it would be unfair not to point out that the dialogue is streets ahead of the twaddle usually spoken on the screen." | | (Dilys Powell) | | | "A somewhat tedious film which happily boasts an extra-special performance by Bette Davis. Just to see her with a part that fits is reason enough for going... Unfortunately full of stereotypes, from the earnest playwright to the producer with a thick accent, the film is a half-successful attempt at defining Broadway and the legitimate stage to moviegoers." | | (Esquire) | | | "So well and amusingly written that, in spite of its enormous length, the obvious artificiality of its plot, and the flagrant exaggeration of its only-too-wicked people, it never really flags." | | (James Monahan) | | |
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, Anne Baxter 
