All About Eve Resources

Explore more about Eve on the film's IMDB page.

Check out Rotten Tomatoes' 100% rating.

Tons of info about the film, including a long plot synopsis that you don't really need 'cause you've got Shmoop.

The Broadway Musical Applause, with Lauren Bacall as Margo Channing, was based on All About Eve. It won the 1970 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Bacall was named Best Actress.

There's never been an Eve on TV, but the Applause musical was adapted for TV, starring Lauren Bacall and Larry Hagman.

Loni Anderson plays a country-western star with a young fan (Linda Hamilton) who's really trying to usurp her career and her man in this 1982 TV movie based on All About Eve. Seriously.

New York Times critic Bosley Crowther (a name that gives Addison DeWitt a run for its money) approves of this movie, and warns Broadway to watch its back, 'cause here comes Hollywood. One of the original 1950 reviews.

The late great Roger Ebert reviews the film on its 50th birthday.

The original New Yorker review thinks that Hollywood showed Broadway folks just what it thinks of them.

The Guardian laments the lacking number of female leading roles in modern-day cinema. Who'd have thought we'd go backward?

In this original review, Kate Cameron believes that Bette Davis is at the top of her game in this film.

Not-so-secret secrets of All About Eve.

The New York Times reminisces about the film on its 50th anniversary re-release.

Just before the release of Eve, the New York Times dished on Joseph L. Mankiewicz and how he took the industry by storm.

Bette Davis speaks with Barbara Walters about Eve, and her own daughter's scathing tell-all book.

In 1983, Bette Davis, still smoking and fabulous (emphasis on the smoking) briefly talks about Eve in this video.

Art totally imitated life in the making of All About Eve.

New Yorker film critic Richard Brody thinks that Hollywood people can be as ruthless as Broadway people, but at least they're open about it.

Does Margo love Liszt's "Liebestraum" or not? We don't know. Listen to it yourself.

NPR's Susan Stamberg analyzes Eve to figure out what she's all about.

Mankiewicz's protégé Paul Attanasio (as far as we know, he isn't a male Eve) talks about Eve.

We'd see Aged in Wood, the fictional play within the movie, based on the poster alone.

The cast almost looks like they all get along in this shot of the entire cast.

A costume test photo from the film, which won the Oscar for Best Costume Design (Black and White).

A Margo Channing Doll. Really.

Ever wonder what those glamorous dresses looked like in real life? Margo's party dress was a luscious brown.

Someone had to do it.

Glam shot of Bette from an All About Eve poster.

Bette dresses up as Sarah Siddons for a living tableau for "The Pageant of the Masters." The tableau was based on a famous portrait of Sarah Siddons that Mankiewicz used in All About Eve. It's hanging in the stairwell of Margo's apartment.