All about "All about Eve" : The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Bitchest Film Ever Made

by Sam Staggs

• ISBN13: 9780312252687
• ISBN10: 0312252684
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-03-18
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

To millions of fans, All About Eve represents all that's witty and wonderful in classic Hollywood movies.Its old-fashioned, larger-than-life stars--including Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm--foudn their best roles in Eve and its sophisticated dialogue has entered the lexicon.But there's much more to know about All About Eve.Sam Staggs has written the definitive account of the making of this fascinating movie and its enormous incluence on both film and popular culture.Staggs reveals everything about the movie--from the famous European actress Margo Channing was based on to the hot-blooded romance on-set between Bette Davis and costar Gary Merrill, from the jump-start the movie gave Marilyn Monroe's career to the capstone it put on director Joseph L. Mankeiwicz's.All About "All About Eve" is not only full of rich detail about the movie, the director, and the stars, but also about the audience who loved it when it came out and adore it to this day.

Author Biography

Sam Stagg's first book was MMII: The Return of Marilyn Monroe. He has also written for a number of magazines, including Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, and Art News. He lives in Dallas, Texas

Table of Contents

Author's Note	ix
Fire and Music	1	(14)
When Was It? How Long?	15	(14)
Minor Awards Are for Such as the Writer	29	(14)
Zanuck, Zanuck, Zanuck	43	(15)
Miss Channing Is Ageless	58	(7)
The End of an Old Road, the Beginning of a New One	65	(8)
San Francisco, An Oasis of Civilization in the California Desert	73	(9)
How Could I Miss Her? Every Night, Every Matinee	82	(6)
To Margo. To My Bride-to-Be	88	(3)
A Graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art	91	(10)
Killer to Killer	101	(9)
A New Word for Happiness	110	(6)
A Little Taking In Here and Letting Out There	116	(5)
A Career All Females Have in Common	121	(15)
The General Atmosphere Is Very Macbethish	136	(6)
I Call Myself Phoebe	142	(12)
The Time I Looked Through the Wrong End of the Camera Finder	154	(20)
And You, I Take It, Are the Paderewski Who Plays His Concerto on Me, the Piano?	174	(7)
Wherever There's Magic and Make-Believe and an Audience, There's Theatre	181	(10)
I'll Marry You If It Turns Out You Have No Blood At All	191	(6)
You'll Give the Performance of Your Life	197	(9)
Those Awards Presented Annually by That Film Society	206	(11)
Waiting for Me to Crack That Little Gnome on the Noggin With a Bottle	217	(15)
I Could Watch You Play That Scene a Thousand Times	232	(15)
Tell That to Dr. Freud Along With the Rest of It	247	(10)
Real Diamonds in a Wig	257	(25)
Why, If There's Nothing Else, There's Applause	282	(37)
Postscript: Tell Us About It, Eve	319	(17)
Brief Lives, Etc.	336	(8)
Acknowledgments	344	(4)
Selected Bibliography	348	(6)
Notes	354	(17)
Index	371