All About Eve

Trading on the vanity and insecurity of ageing actress Margo Channing, Eve Harrington becomes her indispensable confidante in an attempt to launch her own bid for Broadway immortality...

On passing her 40th birthday, she discovers that her social circle of intimates has admitted to their company a young woman called Eve...

...veteran actress Margo Channing...was...Davis'...greatest role; ....marks a victory: the triumph of personality andwill over the superficial power of beauty. She never played a moreautobiographical role.

...thanks to a superlative cast, a brilliantly witty screenplay and top-drawer direction from Joseph L Mankiewicz, it's also one of the most entertaining.