All About Eve is showing at two venues in the northwest of England next week: firstly, at The Plaza in Stockport, Cheshire on Thursday, March 26, at 11 am and 7:30 pm; and then at The Dukes in Lancaster on Sunday, March 29 at 2:30 pm – introduced by Dalila Missero, lecturer in film studies at the city’s university.
“There’s a great deal more to All About Eve than zingers, but I don’t think it’s unfair to suggest that the dialogue is what makes it truly, deeply special. Lots of movies have great acting. Lots movies have pulpy melodramatic hearts beating vigorously under a veneer of studio shine. Very, very few movies have the facility with language of All About Eve … It presents a ruthless, horrible world, where everybody who survives needs to be at least partially a predator (the small, early performance by Marilyn Monroe nails this perfectly; almost nowhere else in her career do we see the calculating menace behind adopting ‘I’m a busty dumb blonde!’ as a strategic weapon.)”
– Tim Brayton, Alternate Ending
The Marilyn Report 