All About Eve is showing at the Paris Theatre on West 58th Street, New York, at 7:00 pm on Monday, February 9. The screening will be introduced by Odie Henderson, film critic for the Boston Globe, as part of ‘All My Memories Are Movies: Cinema That Inspired JAY KELLY‘ (now on Netflix, and starring George Clooney.)
“All About Eve is magnificent despite not being, as the line goes, maudlin and full of self-pity … Its Oscar-winning screenplay is a master class in telling a story through delectable dialogue and ripe situations, both of which are brought to life by a murderer’s row of legendary actors. The cast includes Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Thelma Ritter, Celeste Holm, a pre-stardom Marilyn Monroe (as poor Miss Caswell) and, as that venomous fishwife, Addison DeWitt, George Sanders. That DeWitt is the cattiest character in a film filled with women is just one of the many surprises in store for viewers …The wisdom of All About Eve may very well be that in life, everyone sees themselves as Addison DeWitt, but they are really all just poor Miss Caswells trying to eke out an existence by making the unhappy rabbits who rule the world happy.”
The Marilyn Report 