ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
Part of the Sunday Silvers
| Director: | J.L. Mankiewicz |
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| Certificate: | BBFC U |
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| Format: | 35mm |
| Language: | English (US) |
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"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!”
The second SUNDAY SILVERS brings you the definitive backstage drama saga of ambition and betrayal. Starring the most amazing actress BETTE DAVIS in one of her finest roles! ALL ABOUT EVE is a film about an aspiring actress who maneuvers her way into the lights of Broadway via a highly regarded but aging star, a revered playwright and a triumphant director.
The short film before tonight's feature will be a cheeky monkey of an animation called 'Survival' by Angie Turnbull and Mark Farrell.
FACTS…
ALL ABOUT EVE won of TWENTY awards in its year of release, including the Best Picture Oscar. It holds the record for the film with the greatest number of female acting nominations. It stars a young Marilyn Monroe in one of her first roles. Bette Davis filmed all of her scenes in 16 days. Bette Davis was 42 when she filmed ALL ABOUT EVE. Claudette Colbert was originally cast as Margo Channing, but had to pull out due to a severe back injury.
If you are so inclined, here's an interesting article by Martin Shingler entitled, 'Masquerade or Drag? Bette Davis and the ambiguities of gender' from Screen (36.3 Autumn 1995):
http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/3/179.full.pdf
A BUMPY NIGHT? An extract
Other films in the Sunday Silvers:
09
Film: Some Like It Hot (1959)
9 Jan 2011, 7 p.m.
To start the new SUNDAY SILVERS season off with a bang, we bring you quite possibly the greatest Hollywood comedy ever made! Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemon and the late and wonderful Tony Curtis star in Billy Wilder’s film of cross-dressing, jazz, prohibition, mobsters and romance. Plus short film, 'Keeping Time', by Ellen Phethean/Richard Lawson.
06
Film: A Night At The Opera (1935)
6 Mar 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Groucho, Harpo and Chico take on high society in the third of our SUNDAY SILVERS. Slapstick, good (and bad) jokes, routines, musical numbers, chaos and a bit of romance make this one of the finest Marx Brothers films out there.
03
Film: Jezebel (1938)
3 Apr 2011, 7 p.m.
A tale of defiance, love and redemption sees another SUNDAY SILVER! A headstrong Southern Belle forces away her love through her pride, vanity and sedition - all in a red dress - but vows to get him back. The amazing Bette Davis and Henry Fonda star in this 1850's Southern-set romantic melodrama. Why not come dressed in RED for tonight's screening?! MOTHER'S DAY SPECIAL OFFER… Bring your mother and she gets in at the concession price of £3.50!
01
Film: Mildred Pierce (1945)
1 May 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Joan Crawford stars as the ultimate self-sacrificing mother in May's SUNDAY SILVERS. Based on James M. Cain's maternal hard-boiled novel, Mildred Pierce is a film noir with a difference. Please don't tell anyone what Mildred Pierce did!
05
Film: High Society (1956)
5 Jun 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and his band all star in this Technicolor Cole Porter musical for another classic SUNDAY SILVERS! A well-to-do lady is set to marry into stability and potential boredom, but her free-loving, jazz musician ex-husband is set to win her back - although the dashing reporter has something to say about that! Well, what's a gal to do?
03
Film: The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
3 Jul 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Ah, Lubitsch! Subtle, sharp, sad, romantic and funny - a film fit for the SUNDAY SILVERS! Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan star in this tale of despise for those you know and love for those you don't - whoever they might be…
04
Film: King Kong (1933)
4 Sep 2011, 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY SILVERS brings you the definitive sci-fi, fantasy, special effects movie. A film crew go to a mysterious, tropical island to finish a shoot, but what they find there was bigger than they ever imagined… Adventure to make you wonder if it's TRUE, while your very eyes convince you that it IS!
02
Film: The Night Of The Hunter (1955)
2 Oct 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Doe-eyed Bob Mitchum turns nasty in a classic film-noir that showcases the sinister side of our Sunday Silvers. Watch, as our anti-hero's tattooed knuckles take hold of an unsuspecting family whose widowed matriarch is initially hoodwinked by his preacher-man act. Behold, the charming charlatan's pursuit of the widow's fortune.
06
Film: Gun Crazy (1949)
6 Nov 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Bart's got a thing for guns and when he meets Laurie, a carnival gun-slinging, trick-shot beauty, he falls in love. But a married life without luxury isn't Laurie's idea of happily-ever-after and they put their skills to thrilling use… Perhaps technically a B-Movie, this film deserves to be a SUNDAY SILVER!
04
Film: Singin' In The Rain (1952)
4 Dec 2011, 7:30 p.m.
The ultimate Hollywood Hollywood movie ends this year's SUNDAY SILVERS! Movies, stars, movie-stars, songs, dance, Technicolor, comedy and romance in one of MGM's finest musicals.