All About Eve – Criterion Collection – Blu-Ray

In this devastatingly witty Hollywood classic from JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ (Cleopatra), backstage is where the real drama plays out. One night, Margo Channing (Now, Voyager’s BETTE DAVIS) entertains a surprise dressing-room visitor: her most adoring fan, the shy, wide-eyed Eve Harrington (The Magnificent Ambersons’ ANNE BAXTER). But as Eve becomes a fixture in Margo’s life, the Broadway legend soon realizes that her supposed admirer intends to use her
and everyone in her circle, including an acid-tongued critic played by GEORGE SANDERS (Rebecca), as stepping-stones to stardom. Featuring stilettosharp dialogue and direction by Mankiewicz, and an unforgettable Davis in the role that revived her career and came to define it, the multiple-Oscar-winning
All About Eve is the most deliciously entertaining film ever made about the ruthlessness of show business.

Bonus Features:

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Two audio commentaries from 2010, one featuring actor Celeste Holm,
director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s son Christopher Mankiewicz, and author
Kenneth L. Geist; the other featuring author Sam Staggs
• All About Mankiewicz, a feature-length documentary from 1983 about
the director
• Episodes of The Dick Cavett Show from 1969 and 1980 featuring actors
Bette Davis and Gary Merrill New interview with costume historian Larry
McQueen
• Hollywood Backstories: “All About Eve,” a 2001 documentary featuring
interviews with Davis and others about the making of the film
• Documentaries from 2010 about Mankiewicz’s life and career, the short story on which the film is based and its real-world inspiration, and a real- life “Sarah Siddons Society” based on the film’s fictional society
• Radio adaptation of the film from 1951
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic Terrence Rafferty and the 1946 short story on