All About Eve (1950)

All About Eve

All About Eve © 1950 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. The ultimate backstage drama, All About Eve exposes the dark underbelly of Broadway just as its contemporary film Sunset Boulevard does for Hollywood. This witty, endlessly quotable film has become the archetype of the “ambitious young schemer strives to replace the reigning queen” plotline, but writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s examination of showbiz ageism has lost none of its freshness and snap. The career-best performances of