All About Eve (1950) Facts
| Director(s) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Producer(s) | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Featured Cast | Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill |
| Total Facts | 55 |
Though most of the score is original music by Alfred Newman, the music during the car scene with Karen and Margo is an instrumental version of "Liebestraum" ("Love's Dream") by Franz Liszt, the same music the drunken, maudlin Margo had the pianist play over and over again during the party scene. The joke is that when she hears it again in the car (now sober, of course), she condemns it as "cheap sentimentality" and quickly turns it off.
Upon learning that he had cast Bette Davis, one of her former directors, Edmund Goulding, rang up Joseph L. Mankiewicz and warned him that she would grind him down into a fine powder. This proved to be a redundant warning as Davis knew better than to mess with Mankiewicz's finely tuned screenplay. In fact, Mankiewicz found her to be one of the most professional and agreeable actresses he'd ever worked with.
Was voted the 21st Greatest Movie of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
Years later, Bette Davis said in an interview "Filming _All About Eve_ was a very happy experience....the only bitch in the cast was Celeste Holm."
The United States Postal Service honored Bette Davis with a commemorative postage stamp in 2008, marking the 100th anniversary of her birth. The stamp features an image of her in the role of Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950).