All About Eve is showing at Glasgow Film Theatre on Saturday, November 8 at 4:20 pm, as part of a ‘What’s the Tea, Hollywood?‘ strand of the BFI series, Too Much: Melodrama on Film. Celebrating the film’s status as a queer classic, this screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Pamela Hutchinson (film historian and critic), Lauren Clarke (researcher and programmer at Invisible Women), and Jamie Dunn (film editor, atThe Skinny), moderated by Rosie Beattie.
“Despite the red pen of the Hays censorship code which ran through Hollywood’s Golden Age, the melodramas from this era shimmer with a queer sensibility. From the enduring campness of All About Eve to the queer cowgirl overtones of Johnny Guitar, Hollywood melodramas have an enduring resonance with LGBTQ+ audiences. Elaborate costumes, catty dialogue, fierce star power and the gossip that surrounded them all played a role in solidifying these films as queer classics. This programme explores, celebrates and interrogates the legacy of queerness in some of Hollywood’s most melodramatic moments.”
The Marilyn Report 