Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, a extremely regarded, senescent Broadway actress, with Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, a immature fan who insinuates herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career & her personal relation. Gary Merrill, George Sanders, Hugh Marlowe, Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter also appear, & a film provided one of Marilyn Monroe's earliest important roles.

It was nominated for Xiv Academy Awards and won six awards, including Best Picture. It has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Synopsis
Margo Channing is the large star in Broadway however is beginning to show her age. She encounters the girl world health organization claims to become her large fan, & world health organization worms her way into Margo's life, finally becoming her secretary. Bit by bit, these are revealed that Eve is extra scheming & double-dealing than she seems. She begins working to supplant Margo: she requires a role of her understudy and engineers Margo's absence so that she could play her role onstage. Eve gives such the good performance that her have career as a theatre star begins to require off, & she becomes a large star than Margo. At a prevent of a film, Eve herself encounters an apparently wet immature fan, & these are implied that the period may prove my point.

Background
When performing in The Two Mrs. Carrolls during 1943 and 1944, Elisabeth Bergner allowed a young fan to become part of her household, and employed her as an assistant, but later regretted her generosity when the woman attempted to undermine her. On to her just when "the terrible girl", Bergner related the cases to Mary Orr, world health organization utilized it when a basis for a story A Wisdom of Eve. within a story, Orr attributed the supplementary unpitying character to the girl, & allowed her to succeed in stealing the career of the older actress. Bergner late confirmed a basis of the story within her autobiography Bewundert Viel und Viel Gescholten (Greatly Admired & Greatly Scolded).

Inside 1949, Mankiewicz was considering the story just about an senescent actress, & upon reading A Wisdom of Eve felt that the conniving girl would exist as a utile addition to his have ideas. He sent the memorandum to Darryl F. Zanuck saying it "fits in with an original idea [of mine] and can be combined. Superb starring role for Susan Hayward". Mankiewicz presented the film treatment of a combined stories under the title Right Performance. He changed a independent character's title from either Margola Cranston to Margo Channing & maintained many of Orr's characters, Eve Harrington, Lloyd & Karen Richards & Miss Caswell. He flushed Margo Channing's hubby all & replaced him using the freshly character, Bill Sampson. the intention was to depict Channing within a newly relationship, & allow Eve Harrington to threaten two Channing's agency & personalized dwells. Mankiewicz too added a characters Addison DeWitt, Birdie Coonan, Max Fabian & Phoebe.

Zanuck was enthusiastic & provided many suggestions for improving a screenplay. Around a few sections he felt Mankiewicz's writing lacked subtlety or even provided excessive detail. He suggested diluting Birdie Coonan's jealousy of Eve thus that a audience would non recognise Eve as a villain until great deal late in the story. Zanuck reduced a screenplay by astir L web sites & chose a title Tons Eve from either a opening scenes where Addison DeWitt says he might shortly tell "about Eve. All about Eve".

Casting and characters
Although a role of Margo Channing wwhen recognised just about immediately as one of a right around Bette Davis's career, Davis was non a number 1 selection. A Channing character wwhen originally conceived as cultured & wittingly humourous, & Claudette Colbert was signed to play the role, but she severely hurt her back & was forced to withdraw prior to cinematography began. Among people considered & rejected for the a portion were Mankiewicz's original selection, Susan Hayward, considered by Zanuck to be "too young", & Marlene Dietrich, considered to be "too German". Zanuck favorite Barbara Stanwyck but she was not available. Gertrude Lawrence was considered, but whenever her professional suggested "wouldn't it be nice if Gertie sat by the piano and sang", Mankiewicz refused to assume her any farther. Zanuck so known as Davis, world health organizatiin was finishing function on Payment on Demand. She see a script, which she declared was one of a better she got ever scroll through, & accepted a role.

Jeanne Crain was selected to play Eve Harrington despite Zanuck's reservations that she lacked "bitch quality" but was ruled out whenever she became pregnant. Anne Baxter, who got recently won a Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''The Razor's Edge'' took her place.

A role of Bill Sampson was originally arranged for John Garfield or Ronald Reagan. Reagan's married woman Nancy Davis was considered for the role of Karen Richards and Jose Ferrer for the role of Addison DeWitt. Zsa Zsa Gabor actively sought a role of Phoebe forgoing realizing that the producers were looking for her, along by owning Angela Lansbury, for the role of Miss Caswell.

A final cast was comprised of Davis & Baxter, by using Gary Merrill as Bill Sampson, Hugh Marlowe as the writer Lloyd Richards, Celeste Holm as his wife Karen, & George Sanders as the "venomous fish-wife", Addison DeWitt, the theatre critic. Mankiewicz greatly admired a actress Thelma Ritter, and wrote a character of Birdie Coonan for her fallowing working by owning her in A Letter to Three Wives (1949). When Coonan was the sole character immediately suspicious of Eve Harringtin, he was caring that Ritter would contribute the shrewd characterisation that would cast doubt on Harrington, & provide a contrast to the supplementary "theatrical" personalities of the more characters. Marilyn Monroe, relatively unknown at a instance, wwhen cast as Miss Caswell, referred to by Addison DeWitt as a "graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art". Monroe was cast despite Zanuck's initial antipathy, & his belief that she was better suited to drama. Little roles were filled by Gregory Ratoff as the producer Max Fabian, Barbara Bates, as Phoebe, the immature fan of Eve Harrington, & Walter Hampden as the Master of Ceremonies at an award presentation.

a film opens by owning a image of an award trophy, described by an unseen storyteller inside a subdued voice when the "highest honor our theater knows - the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement." In 1952, the little class action of distinguished Chicago theater-goers, began to give an award thereupon title to actors which was sculpted to look such as a one of Sarah Siddons used in the film. A award has been given annually by having preceding honorees including Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Celeste Holm, and Barbara Rush to name two or three.

Awards
This film was a large winner of Oscar around 1951, winning six Oscars: Academy Award for Best Picture: Darryl F. Zanuck, Producer Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor: George Sanders Academy Award for Costume Design, black and white: Edith Head and Charles Le Maire Best Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Best Writing, Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Best Sound Recording

It received the farther eight nominations: Academy Award for Best Actress: Anne Baxter and Bette Davis Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress: Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter Best placed counsel, black & white: George W. Davis, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott, and Lyle R. Wheeler Academy Award for Best Cinematography, black-and-white: Milton R. Krassner Best film editing: Barbara McLean Best music scoring: Alfred Newman

A film too won numbers of awards including, within 1997, placement on the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Tagline: ''It's all about women—& their men!''