All About Eve

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's bad taste, exhibited with verve, is more fun than careful, mousy, dehydrated good taste. His nonsense about "theatre" is saved by one performance that is the real thing: Bette Davis is at her most instinctive and assured.

You'll want to see All Abut Eve a couple of times.

The script is well capable of carrying out the film's intentions -- it is, indeed, an admirable piece of work and not lacking in wit.

So breath-takingly sharp and tense a story of the theater could hardly be so vital without some fragments of truth In its background.

All About Eve is undoubtedly the best picture of the year, even better than Sunset Boulevard.

A scintillating, stimulating, extraordinary achievement.

The barbed dialogue is witty and wonderful, delivered with tart insolence by Bette Davis as ... an aging Broadway lioness who watches ruthless cub Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) pull out her claws as she purrs and insinuates herself into stardom.

A penetrating anecdote on the viciousness of narcissism, cynicism, deceit, and celebrity, All About Eve is one of the most revolutionary and sharp-edged screenplays ever written.

All About Eve proved to Hollywood that Bette Davis wasn't ready to quit and it remains one of the greatest films ever made.

The writing and directing by Joseph L. Mankiewicz are superb, and the acting is Academy-Award all the way.