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Movie: All About Eve - Paper

Movie: All About Eve

English 30
Spring "97"
In the film All About Eve, (directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and released in
1950), Eve Harrison (Anne Baxter) was a young woman with evil running through
her veins. She wanted to be "somebody" and chose to get there through Margo
Channing (Betty Davis) who was a famous stage star. Eve would do whatever it
took to get where she wanted to be, including hurt the ones that trusted her and
took her in as a "lost lamb". Though Eve was already evil within and throughout,
the people around her made it even easier to acomplish her goals.

Margo was one of the most popular stage actresses and put herself high on a
pedastel, and looked at someone like Eve as being below ...

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(Thelma Ritter), was the first to sense
something was strange about Eve, but her position made it not her place to speak
her mind. Eve knew this and also knew it would be easy to take control of her
position because of this. It would only seem to Margo that she enjoyed doing
things for her.

Eve charmed Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill), director and Margo's lover, with her
feminine qualities that Margo lacked. Eve just seemed to be overly interested
in everything Bill had to say about the theater. She used to keep him admiring
her and at the same time, drove Margo crazy with jealousy to tear their
relationship apart. Little did she realize, Bill had no romantic feelings
towards Eve at all, so she blew her cover when she made a pass at him.

Karen Richards (Celeste Holm), Margo's best friend, was the one that found
and introduced Eve to Margo. She was the type of person that would anything for
anyone, sort of niave and trusted Eve from day one. Karen was amazed by ...

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Added: 7/10/2007 02:25:41 PM
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