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October 4, 2016 (XXXIII:6) Joseph L. Mankiewicz: ALL ABOUT EVE (1950), 138 Min October 4, 2016 (XXXIII:6) Joseph L. Mankiewicz: ALL ABOUT EVE (1950), 138 min All About Eve received 14 Academy Award nominations and won 6 of them: picture, director, supporting actor, sound, screenplay, costume design. It probably would have won two more if four members of the cast hasn’t been in direct competition with one another: Davis and Baxter for Best Actress and Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter for Best Supporting Actress. The story is that the studio tried to get Baxter to go for Supporting but she refused because she already had one of those and wanted to move up. Years later, the same story goes, she allowed as maybe she made a bad career move there and Bette David allowed as she was finally right about something. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screenplay) Mary Orr (story "The Wisdom of Eve", uncredited) Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck Music Alfred Newman Cinematography Milton R. Krasner Film Editing Barbara McLean Art Direction George W. Davis and Lyle R. Wheeler Eddie Fisher…Stage Manager Set Decoration Thomas Little and Walter M. Scott William Pullen…Clerk Claude Stroud…Pianist Cast Eugene Borden…Frenchman Bette Davis…Margo Channing Helen Mowery…Reporter Anne Baxter…Eve Harrington Steven Geray…Captain of Waiters George Sanders…Addison DeWitt Celeste Holm…Karen Richards Joseph L. Mankiewicz (b. February 11, 1909 in Wilkes- Gary Merrill…Bill Simpson Barre, Pennsylvania—d. February 5, 1993, age 83, in Hugh Marlowe…Lloyd Richards Bedford, New York) started in the film industry Gregory Ratoff…Max Fabian translating intertitle cards for Paramount in Berlin. He Barbara Bates…Phoebe became a screenwriter for Paramount, then went to MGM, Marilyn Monroe…Miss Casswell left there when Louis B. Mayer got mad at him because of Thelma Ritter…Birdie Coonan his affair with Judy Garland, then went to Fox and worked Walter Hampden…Aged Actor as a producer for Darryl F. Zanuck. He got his directing Randy Stuart…Girl break when Ernst Lubitsch took sick and was unable to Craig Hill…Leading Man direct Dragonwyck (1946). After that very successful film, Leland Harris…Doorman Mankieweicz directed 21 more, among them: (asterisk Barbara White…Autograph Seeker indicates he was also scriptwriter): Mankewicz—A:LL: ABOUT EVE—2 Sleuth (1972), King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to movie scores in each of those years. During his long Memphis (1970), Cleopatra *(1963), Suddenly, Last career in Hollywood totaling 250 films, Alfred Newman Summer (1959), The Quiet American* (1958), Guys and was nominated for a staggering thirty-six Academy Dolls (1955), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Julius Awards. In 1940 he earned four nominations for four Caesar* (1953), Five Fingers* (1952), A Letter to Three different films. Nine times, he took home the gold statue: Wives* (1949), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), Tin Pan Alley (1940), and The Late George Apley (1947). He won back-to-back The Song of Bernadette (1943), Mother Wore Tights Academy Awards for best writing and best (1947), With a Song in My Heart (1952), Call Me Madam director for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About (1953), Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1955), The Eve. [His elder brother Herman won a best King and I (1956) and Camelot (1967). For the next screenplay Oscar for Citizen Kane (1941)]. eighteen years, until his resignation in 1960, all of his musical scores would be for Alfred Newman (b. March 20th Century Fox. Bernard 17, 1901 in New Haven, Hermann said that the true Connecticut—d. February genius of Newman in the 17, 1970, age 68, in Musical Director position was Hollywood, Los Angeles, his ability to find and surround California) was a child himself with an abundance of prodigy by the age of talent. Of Newman, Hermann eight. He derived his first said, “He did not write every income as an accompanist note of the scores assigned and on piano in vaudeville, and credited to him, as head of in the orchestral pits of department he could not be picture theatres. By the expected to. He surrounded time Newman was twelve, himself with an expert staff and he was supporting his was not afraid to delegate. Nor entire family, which by was he afraid to employ now had moved to New composers regarded by other York City. Newman worked his way up the ladder, studios as untrustworthy on account of their supposedly conducting his first orchestra by age 17, consequently progressive inclinations” such as David Raksin [most being tagged the boy conductor. By 1917, he had made his famous for his haunting score of Laura (1944)], Hugo way to New York, conducting musicals on Broadway, Friedhofer and Herrmann himself [whose scores for beginning with "George White's Scandals". During his Alfred Hitchcock would cement his career in the 1950s]. time on Broadway, Newman had become friends with John Williams also began his film career at twenty-six several of the composers, including Gershwin (who he had working as a pianist for Alfred Newman on South Pacific known when the latter was still a song plugger at Remick's (1958). Newman was succeeded by his brother Lionel, Music Store) and Irving Berlin, who would be the catalyst composer and conductor, most famously on the Omen for Newman's Hollywood career. At the instigation of series and Alien (1979), as Musical Director for Fox. Irving Berlin, who first made the suggestion to the head of Perhaps most notably, Alfred E. Newman is known for United Artists, Joseph M. Schenck, Newman was invited being the gap-toothed icon of Mad Magazine when the to Hollywood in 1930 to arrange and score Berlin's editor saw a 1954 postcard of the composer with the comedy Reaching for the Moon (1930). United Artists caption, “What me worry?” Some of his impressive 229 then signed him to a seven-year contract, from 1931 to composer credits include, Airport (1970, music composed 1938. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck became so enamored by), Firecreek (1968), Nevada Smith (1966), The Greatest with his work, that he coaxed him into joining the newly Story Ever Told (1965), How the West Was Won (1962), formed 20th Century Fox. His subsequent tenure at Fox, Flower Drum Song (1961, uncredited), The Pleasure of both as composer and as musical director, spanned the His Company (1961), The Best of Everything (1959), The years 1938 to 1959. During this time, he became the Diary of Anne Frank (1959), A Certain Smile (1958), The studio's most prodigious Academy Award winner. He was Bravados (1958, uncredited), The Gift of Love (1958), one of two film composers to have received four Oscar Anastasia (1956), Bus Stop (1956), The King and I (1956, nominations in the same year - the other being Victor uncredited), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), Young, who achieved it twice. Nominated for an The Seven Year Itch (1955), Daddy Long Legs (1955, Academy Award 20 years in succession, from 1938 to uncredited), The Egyptian (1954), Hell and High Water 1957. This includes a nine-year stretch from 1938 to 1946 (1954), The Robe (1953), The President's Lady (1953), in which he was nominated for at least two different Call Me Madam (1953, uncredited), Tonight We Sing Mankewicz—A:LL: ABOUT EVE—3 (1953, uncredited), Stars and Stripes Forever (1952, and-white photography was finally recognized. Krasner uncredited), The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), What Price hit his stride in the 1950s at 20th Century-Fox, where he Glory (1952), Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952), With photographed many of the studio's opulent Technicolor a Song in My Heart (1952), David and Bathsheba (1951), epics (Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954), Désirée Fourteen Hours (1951), For Heaven's Sake (1950), All (1954), The Rains of Ranchipur (1955), among others. About Eve (1950), No Way Out (1950), Panic in the First cameraman to win an Oscar for a film shot in Streets (1950), The Gunfighter (1950), The Big Lift widescreen for Three Coins in a Fountain, CinemaScope, (1950), When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950), (1954). He was nominated an additional 5 times for Best Twelve O'Clock High (1949), Prince of Foxes (1949), Cinematography for Fate Is the Hunter (1964), Love with Pinky (1949), Thieves' Highway (1949), Mr. Belvedere the Proper Stranger (1963), How the West Was Won Goes to College (1949), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), (1962), An Affair to Remember (1957), All About Eve The Snake Pit (1948), Give My Regards to Broadway (1950) and Arabian Nights (1942). (1948, uncredited), Call Northside 777 (1948), Captain from Castile (1947), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), The Razor's Edge (1946), Margie (1946), Leave Her to Heaven (1945), The Dolly Sisters (1945, uncredited), State Fair (1945, uncredited), A Bell for Adano (1945), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Purple Heart (1944), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Heaven Can Wait (1943), My Friend Flicka (1943), The Moon Is Down (1943), Girl Trouble (1942), The Battle of Midway (1942, Short documentary), Prelude to War (1942, Documentary, uncredited), This Above All (1942), To the Shores of Tripoli (1942), Roxie Hart (1942), How Green Was My Valley (1941), Belle Starr (1941), Charley's Aunt (1941), Blood and Sand (1941), The Mark of Zorro (1940), They Knew What They Wanted (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Little Old New York (1940), The Grapes of Wrath (1940, uncredited), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939, original composition Bette Davis (b. Ruth Elizabeth Davis on April 5, 1908 in by), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), Beau Geste (1939), Lowell, Massachusetts—d. October 6, 1989, age 81, in Young Mr.
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