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“All About Eve” Isn’t a Film. It’s Life. Met Her/Him?
Getting ahead in any field, for some women and men, doesn’t take guts. It takes deception and a certain personality type.
As it happens, there are particular aspects of my life to which I would like to maintain sole and exclusive rights and privileges. — Margo Channing
All About Eve, the American film is world-renowned, having won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay in 1950. It is one of the most memorable creations of Tinseltown.
The storyline is alive and active today, not merely in the theatre (the film's setting) or the creative arts. These individuals are in medicine, publishing, hedge funds, computer programming, and any other field where success means recognition and money. Mostly, they hunger for recognition and a type of fame.
You’ve met them. They are both women and men. I certainly have. Gender is the only point where the film departs from real life in that it’s exclusively a domain of females with cunning men thrown in, too. George Sanders (who in real life committed suicide), plays the cunning theatre critic who knows the Eve type and lays it out for her in a…
