The Best Picture of 1950 is…..”All About Eve.” This captivating drama is about a young actress using theater people to promote her own career. Anne Baxter is deviously charming as Eve Harrington, who ingratiates herself with veteran actress Margo Channing and her circle of friends. Bette Davis is brilliant as Channing; this role revived her declining career fortunes at the box office.
The stellar supporting cast includes George Sanders as a theater critic, Gary Merrill as Margo’s boyfriend, Hugh Marlowe as a playwright, Celeste Holm as Mrs. Richards, and Marilyn Monroe as Claudia Casswell, a small part but an early important role for her. Others include Thelma Ritter, Barbara Bates, Gregory Ratoff, Randy Stuart, Craig Hill, Eugene Borden, Helen Mowrey, Sarah Siddons, and Steven Geray as the head waiter.
Joseph L Mankiewicz (“A Letter to Three Wives” 1949) received two well-deserved Oscars, for Best Director and Best Screenplay. George Sanders won Best Supporting Actor, and, along with Best Sound and Best Picture, for a total of five Academy Award wins for the film. This is the only film in history to receive four female acting nods: Davis and Baxter for Best Actress and Holm and Ritter for Best Supporting Actress. Other non-winners include Best Art Direction/Black-and-White, Best Film Editing, Best Scoring (Alfred Newman), and Best Cinematography/Black-and-White (Milton R. Krasner). That’s five wins and eight losses.
The very watchable melodrama “All About Eve” was a massive box office hit for producer Darryl F. Zanuck and 20th Century Fox. It was the ninth highest grossing film of 1950. Gary Merrill and Bette Davis would were wed after “All About Eve” wrapped, a marriage that would last ten years, an eternity in Hollywood!
All About Eve (1950)
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The Best Picture of 1950 is…..”All About Eve.” This captivating drama is about a young actress using theater people to promote her own career. Anne Baxter is deviously charming as Eve Harrington, who ingratiates herself with veteran actress Margo Channing and her circle of friends. Bette Davis is brilliant as Channing; this role revived her declining career fortunes at the box office.
The stellar supporting cast includes George Sanders as a theater critic, Gary Merrill as Margo’s boyfriend, Hugh Marlowe as a playwright, Celeste Holm as Mrs. Richards, and Marilyn Monroe as Claudia Casswell, a small part but an early important role for her. Others include Thelma Ritter, Barbara Bates, Gregory Ratoff, Randy Stuart, Craig Hill, Eugene Borden, Helen Mowrey, Sarah Siddons, and Steven Geray as the head waiter.
Joseph L Mankiewicz (“A Letter to Three Wives” 1949) received two well-deserved Oscars, for Best Director and Best Screenplay. George Sanders won Best Supporting Actor, and, along with Best Sound and Best Picture, for a total of five Academy Award wins for the film. This is the only film in history to receive four female acting nods: Davis and Baxter for Best Actress and Holm and Ritter for Best Supporting Actress. Other non-winners include Best Art Direction/Black-and-White, Best Film Editing, Best Scoring (Alfred Newman), and Best Cinematography/Black-and-White (Milton R. Krasner). That’s five wins and eight losses.
The very watchable melodrama “All About Eve” was a massive box office hit for producer Darryl F. Zanuck and 20th Century Fox. It was the ninth highest grossing film of 1950. Gary Merrill and Bette Davis would were wed after “All About Eve” wrapped, a marriage that would last ten years, an eternity in Hollywood!