All About Eve – which turns 75 this year – is showing at the Wichita Orpheum in Kansas – America’s first ‘atmospheric theatre’, built in 1922 – on Thursday, February 27, at 7:00 pm, as part of an Anniversary Film Series. (The screening has been rescheduled from yesterday, when temperatures were ‘too cold, even for Eve Harrington’, and road conditions ‘too bumpy for Margo Channing’…)
“Bette Davis plays a Broadway star who won’t give up the spotlight, and Anne Baxter is Eve Harrington, a shrewd manipulator ready to take her place. It’s a dynamic we’ve seen a million times since, from The Devil Wears Prada to Showgirls, but no one’s done it better than All About Eve. It also features an early appearance by Marilyn Monroe … All About Eve won Best Picture at the Oscars, but it isn’t one of those exhausting Best Picture winners that takes itself too seriously — it’s a charmer from the first frames and one of the most beloved movies of the 1950s and of all time.”
– Tim Molloy, MovieMaker
The Marilyn Report 