Everything about Eva
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Everything about Eva |
| Original title | All about Eve |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 138 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| script | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| production | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| music | Alfred Newman |
| camera | Milton R. Krasner |
| cut | Barbara McLean |
| occupation | |
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All About Eve is an American feature film made in 1950 directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz , who also wrote the screenplay. The film about the fight between two theater actresses was the big winner at the 1951 Academy Awards with six awards and 14 nominations .
action
The film describes, embedded in a framework, the memories of three people of the rise of Eve Harrington, an admirer of the theater star Margo Channing, up to receiving the most important theater award in New York.
Eve watches the performance of the play Gereift in Holz every day until Karen Richards, the playwright's gullible wife and closest friend of Margo Channing, finally enables her to contact the circle around the revered star. She impressed her with a touching but false story about an unhappy childhood and a crashed aviator. Margo takes the young woman under her wing, and she soon becomes indispensable.
Then the suspicion grows in Margo that the caring is by no means unselfish, and she tries to get rid of "the little one". But she has already thrown her net and can no longer be stopped in her rise, using clever intrigues. In the end, the 40-year-old diva foregoes the 20-year-old in favor of her private life, leaving Eve to play her next play. Only critic Addison De Witt knows about her true, obscure past, but still supports her because of her talent on the condition that she then submits to him, which she does reluctantly. She becomes the new star in the theater sky, for whom her own number 1 fan is waiting in the end, who is just like her, of whom there are many like her.
description
While the Twilight Boulevard, shot in the same year, pays homage to the stars of the silent film , Everything about Eva revolves around the theater business. The basic statement in All About Eve is first that if anyone goes to Hollywood to see Zanuck (who made the film), they will be viewed crookedly and considered a traitor to the cause. The theater is true art, but its makers are just as weak and strong as the audience. Bette Davis gives the star, who eventually realizes that life in marriage outside of the theater offers her true happiness. Her character is the defining role of the film, a diva who is aware of her abilities and has her way through, but is driven by the fear of losing her attraction in the theater and in life and therefore sees herself threatened by Eve's youthfulness.
Eve, driven by an iron will to earn fame, uses every opportunity that presents itself to influence those around her in her favor. She uses the critic De Witt and the naivete of others to get what she wants. The contemporary female and male viewers find Eve prettier and more personable, as well as more suitable due to her obviously great talent and her willingness to sacrifice herself for the audience. Their motives are similar to those of anyone who strives for recognition by the audience. In the end she made the breakthrough and goes to Hollywood, but is also tied to the calculating critic, who saw through her and only supports her for his own benefit due to her talent, whereby he also controls her so that her intrigues do not cause too much damage causes. For this he uses her obscure past, from which she wants to run away.
One of the most ironic parts of the film (in retrospect) is the successful appearance of Marilyn Monroe as a young actress who fails to meet the special requirements and is asked to try her luck on television.
useful information
Claudette Colbert was originally intended for the role of Margo Channing . However, after she sprained a vertebra in her house a few weeks before filming started, they had to find a replacement. Zanuck initially thought of his own star Susan Hayward , but she was too young for the role. The idea of hiring Marlene Dietrich , Jeanne Crain , John Garfield and José Ferrer for the leading roles also failed, mainly due to resistance from Joseph L. Mankiewicz . He said succinctly: "Marlene Dietrich poses beautifully but she can't speak correctly."
The attempt to use Gertrude Lawrence , fresh after her Broadway triumph in The King and I , also failed. Miss Lawrence only wanted to take on the role if she was contractually assured that she would not have to smoke and would be able to perform several songs (preferably Jerome Kern 's My Bill from Show Boat ).
More out of desperation, the producers finally hit on Bette Davis , who at the time as "washed up" (dt .: done was) after a lot of noise its long-standing contract with Warner Brothers had finished.
The cinematic work Everything about my mother by the Spaniard Pedro Almodóvar alludes to Everything about Eva with its title and a similarly dominant protagonist .
“All about Eva” defines a specific characteristic for an ending in film analysis that corresponds to the beginning of a narrative. One speaks here of a "bookend" or an "all about eve ending".
Film music
The following music tracks are played in the film:
| Music track | Composer (s) | year | instrument | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love dream number 3 | Franz Liszt | 1850 | piano | played at the party when Margo is sitting with the pianist; in the orchestral version it comes later on the car radio. |
| Manhattan | Richard Rodgers (M) & Lorenz Hart (T) | 1925 | piano | played at the party when Margo and Max are in the kitchen |
| Poinciana | Nat Simon (M) & Buddy Bernier (T) | 1936 | ||
| Beau Soir | Claude Debussy ; arr. Alfred Newman | circa 1883 | ||
| That Old Black Magic | Harold Arlen (M) & Johnny Mercer (T) | 1942 | ||
| Blue moon | Rodgers and Hart | 1934 | piano | |
| How About You? | Burton Lane (M) & Ralph Freed (T) | 1941 | piano | played at the party while the guests gather on the stairs |
| Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin 'All the Time) | Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler | 1933 | piano | played at the party when Margo goes upstairs |
| Thou Swell | Rodgers & Hart | 1927 | piano | played at the party when Margo says: “ Fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy night. " |
| 4th symphony | Anton Bruckner | 1874 | orchestra | |
| Linger Awhile | Vincent Rose (M) & Harry Owens (T) | 1923 |
synchronization
The text of the German film version, which was created in 1952 by Ultra Film Synchron GmbH in Berlin, was written by Erich Kästner . It was his only dubbing because he didn't want to expose himself to such agony again.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Margo Channing | Bette Davis | Anne Kersten |
| Eve Harrington | Anne Baxter | Eleanor Noelle |
| Addison De Witt | George Sanders | OE Hasse |
| Karen Richards | Celeste Holm | Carola Höhn |
| Bill Simpson | Gary Merrill | Peter Pasetti |
| Lloyd Richards | Hugh Marlowe | Curt Ackermann |
| Max Fabian | Gregory Ratoff | Hans Pössenbacher |
| Birdie | Thelma Ritter | Edith Schultze-Westrum |
reception
"Bitterly funny tragic comedy from the world of US show business with accurate dialogues and fascinating actor performances."
“The good old theater, the traditional temple of the performing arts, has always looked down on Hollywood with contempt and scorn. Hopefully it is also ready to be the target of criticism itself, because Hollywood is now showing its poisonous sting and giving the ridicule back massively. The film industry is ruthlessly showing its teeth to Broadway in All about Eve, a devastating satire (it is at the same time witty, thoughtful and cultivated) that Twentieth Century-Fox and Joseph L. Mankiewicz presented yesterday. If the theater doesn't want to put up with the beating, it should call on George Kaufman and Moss Hart for help. But it may well be that even Messrs. Kaufman and Hart would not compete with the glaring and devastating irony with which this film brilliantly comes up. Because obviously Mr. Mankiewicz, who is responsible as screenwriter and director, has been preparing for this blow for a long time. You can tell that he must have studied the theater and its charming folk for years, and certainly not through the rose-colored glasses of a sworn enthusiast. And now the moment has come when, with the brilliant support of Bette Davis and a truly exquisite cast, he plunges into the middle of the milieu, sharpens his claws and settles many a bill [...] "
"The tragedy of the aging of a Broadway actress as a differentiated psychological study staged with great empathy and realized with astonishingly subtle representational means."
The film grossed around 150,000 US dollars worldwide through its revival in 2000 and 2007. The box office results in the original release are unknown.
Awards
The film received numerous international awards. At the Academy Awards in 1951 he won six Academy Awards: for best film in 1950, for best director, for best screenplay, for best supporting actor ( George Sanders ) and for the costumes of Edith Head and for best sound. In addition, nominations were made for the acting performances of Anne Baxter , Bette Davis (both best leading actress) and Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter (both best supporting actress). There were further nominations for the best decoration as well as the best camera in a black and white film, the best editing and for the best music by Alfred Newman .
At the film festival in Cannes won Bette Davis and Joseph L. Mankiewicz Awards. This also received the main prize of the American directors' guild and the guild of screenwriters. The New York Critics Association awarded the film, the director and leading actress Bette Davis.
Mankiewicz went home as a screenwriter with a Golden Globe , but had to be content with a nomination in the Best Director category . Bette Davis , George Sanders and Thelma Ritter were also nominated at the Golden Globes for performing .
The American Film Institute selected the film as # 16 in the 1998 edition of the 100 Best Movies of All Time. In 2007, the film made it to 27th place in the list of the 100 Best Movies. The role of Eve Harrington , played by Anne Baxter , made it into the list of the top 50 villains of all time compiled by the American Film Institute. In the list of the 100 most famous film quotes of all time, also published by the AFI, the saying made it: "Please buckle up , Ladies and Gentlemen! I think it will be a stormy night! ”In 9th place.
In 1990 the film was included in the National Film Registry , which lists American films that are considered particularly worth preserving. In 2006, the script was voted the fifth best script of all time by the American Screenwriters' Guild.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Kubiak: The Oscar Films. The best films from 1927/28 to 2004. The best non-English language films from 1947 to 2004. The best animated films from 2001 to 2004 . Schüren, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89472-386-6
Web links
- All About Eve in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Everything about Eva in the online film database
- All About Eve atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- All About Eve atMetacritic(English)
- Review on Filmzentrale.com
swell
- ↑ Univ.-Ass. Mag. Dr. Anton Fuxjäger: Film and television analysis. Introduction to the basic terminology. P. 39.
- ↑ Notes on the soundtrack in the Internet Movie database
- ^ All About Eve. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Everything about Eva ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at verschorbene-filmstars.de
