by Staggs, Sam
“An hour after”—Leaming, p. 233
“The downfall”—Riese, Bette, p. 297
“The joke was”—Davis, This ’N That, p. 185
“The stars of”—Merrill, p. 197
“Not long after”—Davis, This ’N That, p. 186
BOX: Life reported—Life, Dec. 21, 1959; during the tour—Leaming, p. 247; in San Francisco—Spada, p. 322; Ethel Barrymore—Margot Peters, The House of Barrymore, p. 520; “I sat and watched”—Merrill, p. 196; “she had totally”—Merrill, p. 197
CHAPTER 21
The lights went down—unsourced clipping, Bette Davis scrapbook #50, BU
Buzz in Hollywood—Spada, pp. 284–285
Built on a scale—Black, p. 22
Flood of telephone calls—NY Times, Oct. 14, 1950
Ticket sales increased—NY Herald Tribune, Oct. 21, 1950
Variety reported—Variety, Oct. 18, 1950
“Eve, who would make”—NY Times, Oct. 14, 1950
Leo Mishkin—quoted in Spada, p. 285
Two servicemen—Riese, Bette, p. 199
“The fans were treated”—Hollywood Reporter, Nov. 10, 1950
As the stars arrived—Hollywood Citizen News, Nov. 9, 1950
“I’m afraid some of”—San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 16, 1950
“It was a world”—Davis, Glamour Factory, p. 325
“I love Hollywood”—McClelland, Starspeak, p. 50
“My husband”—Considine, p. 255
Sporadic applause—LA Times, Nov. 10, 1950
When the movie ended—ibid.
Dinner parties—Hollywood Reporter, Nov. 10, 1950
The studio bash—Stine, Mother, p. 237
“It was Bette’s”—quoted in Considine, p. 256
The new arrival—ibid.
Joan took her phone—Considine, p. 426
CHAPTER 22
Feeling ill—Considine, p. 257
Joan Crawford’s son—Considine, p. 258
She campaigned hard—Levy, p. 61
What a monster—Spada, p. 286
The first two actresses—ibid.
Later Mankiewicz said—ibid.
“A symbol that captures—Levy, p. xi
Sam Lesner—Swanson, p. 262
Fellow starlets—Wiley, p. 208
The only person—Wiley, p. 209
Sanders accepted—VanDerBeets, p. 107
“It is generally imagined”—Sanders, p. 69
“I sat alone”—Gabor, My Story, pp. 183–184
“The night I got”—Sanders, p. 70
“Ran up to Sam Jaffee’s table”—Wiley, p. 209
Gloria hugged Judy—ibid.
The radio network—Osborne, p. 170
Gloria Swanson congratulated—ibid.
In England—Wiley, p. 209
But she left—Wiley, p. 210
She felt she should—Levy, p. 218
In support of—Playboy, July 1982, p. 76
“Gary and I”—Riese, Bette, p. 412
“Swanson was up”—Playboy, July 1982, p. 76
Anne Baxter told—Riese, Bette, p. 38
List of non-Oscar awards from Riese, Bette, p. 29
Samson and Delilah—Riese, Bette, p. 60
Eve brought in—Solomon, p. 73
“In the golden years”—Solomon, p. xii
CHAPTER 23
“Most of the guests”—Davis, This ’N That, p. 18
“I begged the producer”—McBride, p. 108
Someone asked Tallulah—Carrier, p. 35
Tallulah called up—Quirk, Fasten, p. 334
She had sued—Brown, p. 184
Wrote letters, sent telegrams—Quirk, Fasten, p. 334
“No intentional imitation”—Spada, p. 287
Meyer Berger—quoted in Brian, p. 145
“Someone in the audience”—Dallas Times Herald, Dec. 6, 1950
The Dallas Morning News—Dallas Morning News, Dec. 6, 1950
The following year—Israel, p. 287
“Comedy of insult”—VanDerBeets, p. 109
To guest George Sanders—Israel, p. 288
“Whenever I’m in Hollywood”—VanDerBeets, p. 109
“Forced to vote”—Bankhead, p. 2; p. 325
Mary Orr still shudders—MO to SS, Apr. 16, 1996
“Was there any truth”—Playboy, July 1982, p. 78
Mankiewicz, too—Osborne, p. 171
“I steeped myself”—Head and Calistro, p. 94
“Multitude of reasons”—Israel, p. 236
“Barrage of scurrility”—Israel, p. 237
“I visited the set”—Carey, p. 74
“Zanuck’s choice for the role”—TM to SS, Aug. 21, 1997
“What Dad tried”—TM to SS, Aug. 21, 1997
“I’ve always told”—Carey, p. 72
“When Tallulah decided”—Israel, p. 101
“As scripts arrived”—Israel, p. 143
“Dola was a wealthy Canadian”—Brian, pp. 128–129
“Tallulah never traveled”—Brian, p. 256
“Can I help her”—Israel, p. 220
“She shopped”—ibid.
“I know what people”—Israel, p. 221
“By the time Tallulah”—Israel, p. 99
She reportedly—Israel, p. 65
“The Wise Old Man”—Campbell, p. 9
“Occupy a prominent place”—Campbell, p. 10
“Figure of the Tyrant-Monster”—Campbell, p. 15
“I’m well-nigh besotted”—Carey, p. 41
“Wonderful understanding”—Stempel, AFI
CHAPTER 24
“The screenplay is”—Dallas Morning News, Oct. 11, 1997
Film scholar Bernard Dick—Dick, Anatomy, p. 83
“Stream of juicy”—Winnington, p. 119
“The fashionable viewers”—Truffaut, The Films in My Life, p. 129
Mankiewicz only pretends”—quoted in Hochman, p. 314
BOX: “That homely little girl?”—unsourced clipping, Davis scrapbook #50, BU
“Triumphantly literary”—Andrew, p. 189
“True and savage indictment”—Riese, Bette, p. 7
“Elegant comedy”—Geist, p. 102
“Théâtre filmé”—Dick, Mankiewicz, p. 151
“Ersatz art”—Kael, Kiss, p. 283
“We tried to make”—Behlmer, America’s Favorite, p. 118
This device goes all the way back—Slide, p. 322
D. W. Griffith elaborated—Mast, p. 55
Popularized the freeze-frame—Dick, Mankiewicz, p. 25; Geist, p. 101
“The camera moves”—Dick, Mankiewicz, p. 155
“The best direction”—Mérigeau, pp. 14–15
“I was angry”—Taylor, p. 18
“They entertained you”—Kael, Kane, p. 26; p. 52
“We are transfixed”—Roen, p. 26
“Male behavior”—Films in Review, Mar./Apr. 1991, p. 75
“Based essentially on me”—Films in Review, Mar./Apr. 1991, p. 76
CHAPTER 25
“One of Anne’s greatest”—TM to SS, Aug. 21, 1997
“I wanted Michael Caine”—Ciment, p. 155
Still getting mail—Ciment, pp. 218–219
“I’m not prepared”—NY Post, Feb. 24, 1973
CHAPTER 26
Acting out favorite scenes—Gussow, p. 158
Novelist Joseph Hansen—JH, letter to SS, Oct. 11, 1997
“Large volume” of letters—NY Times, Apr. 14, 1951
J. R. Moser, et seq.—correspondence in Production Code files, AMPAS
“I discovered that”—Davis, This ’N That, p. 90
“All About Little Eva?”—Variety, Mar. 7, 1951
Maria Zeppezauer—Variety, Mar. 5, 1952
BOX: Local censor boards—Production Code files, AMPAS
Imitation of Life screenplay—Fischer, p. 60
Robert Alda—Fischer, p. 68
“I was a kid”—GC to SS, Dec.
23, 1996
James Baldwin—Another Country, p. 32
Carey-Mankiewicz controversy—GC to SS, Dec. 23, 1996
Mankiewicz told a reporter—NY Post, Feb. 24, 1973
“Seven Deadly Sins Festival”—Robertson, p. 208
Bradford Samuel—Jim Faraone, 2nd Fashion Doll Makeovers, p. 68
John Rechy—Marilyn’s Daughter, pp. 83–84; 143; 180
MMII—p. 161
Timequake—p. 188
Later that year—TV Guide, Aug. 8–14, 1998
William Friedkin—Byrge, p. 57
Isaac Mizrahi—American Movie Classics magazine, Aug. 1996
E. Lynn Harris—Publishers Weekly, Apr. 9, 1999
Gay filmmaker Marc Huestis—Murray, p. 143
CHAPTER 27
Cole Porter, in 1957—William McBrien, Cole Porter, p. 380
A 1964 taped conversation—Spada, pp. 385–387
“I had a tremendous”—CS to SS, June 26, 1998
“I was working”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998
“This time, at least,”—MO to SS, Apr. 16, 1996
“The theatre has given”—NY Times, Nov. 19, 1982
“We worked together”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998
According to Lee Adams—LA to SS, Mar. 8, 1999
To interest Anne Bancroft—Greenberger, p. 207
“Lauren Bacall was”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998
“I was approached”—Bacall, Myself, p. 339
“We went to Ron Field”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998
“I was bucking”—Field, SMU
“Larry Kasha had”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998
“My recollection”—LA to SS, Mar. 8, 1999
“I hired Strouse and Adams”—Kasha, SMU
“What happened”—CS to SS, June 26, 1998
“A settlement”—Bacall, Myself, p. 353
“I went to David Brown”—Kasha, SMU
“A meeting was called”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998
“A limited amount”—NY Times, Apr. 1, 1970
Run-of-the-play contract—Greenberger, p. 207
“We used very little”—NY Times, Apr. 1, 1970
The decision to incorporate—Comden and Green, in Strouse, p. 73
“Sometimes when you”—BC to SS, Sept. 16, 1998
“I’ve heard that”—BC to SS, Sept. 16, 1998
“A perfectly professional relationship”—BC to SS, Sept. 16, 1998
“It is necessary”—Frankel, p. 75
“The first meeting of actors”—Bacall, Myself, pp. 135–136
“The Margo Channing of Applause”—Bacall, Now, p. 139
“I’ve made an ass”—Greenberger, p. 207
“I talked with Ron”—GL to SS, Oct. 3, 1998
“It was tricky”—GL to SS, Oct. 3, 1998
“I camped it up”—GL to SS, Oct. 3, 1998
“During tryouts in Baltimore”—LRR to SS, July 14, 1998
“You do the show”—Bacall, Myself, p. 359
“Wonderful screaming acceptance”—DM to SS, July 8, 1998
“I clasped her hands”—LRR to SS, July 14, 1998
“The pressure was constant”—Bacall, Myself, p. 361
Brandon Maggart, who played—DM to SS, July 8, 1998
“The national is”—DM to SS, July 8, 1998
“It’s nice to dream”—DM to SS, July 8, 1998
“The fourth row center”—Bacall, Myself, pp. 361–362
“After the audition” et seq.—PF to SS, Sept. 23, 1998
“The tenth musical”—Suskin, pp. 63–64
“Whoever first-nighters are”—BC to SS, Sept. 16, 1998
“Half of my royalties”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998
“Whatever it is”—NY Times, Mar. 31, 1970
“A splashy bitch”—Hollywood Reporter, Apr. 2, 1970
“I always imagined”—Playboy, July 1982, p. 80
Send Lauren Bacall a telegram—Greenberger, p. 210
“I hope we meet”—Bacall, Myself, p. 20
“Miss Bacall leaves out”—Moseley, p. 118
“She sat on a chair”—Bacall, Myself, p. 369
“Joe, you have to”—TM to SS, Aug. 21, 1997
“He was happy”—Bacall, Myself, p. 272
“I don’t blame him”—CS to SS, June 26, 1998
Mankiewicz said—CS to SS, June 26, 1998
“Ladies and gentlemen”—PF to SS, Sept. 23, 1998
“It has put”—LA Times, June 20, 1971
“After a couple”—Field, SMU
Penny Fuller describes—PF to SS, Sept. 23, 1998
“Were very musical”—LRR to SS, July 14, 1998
“A little silver apple”—PF to SS, Sept. 23, 1998
“The theatre was very”—PF to SS, Sept. 23, 1998
“Did one of the best”—LRR to SS, July 14, 1998
“I hate what they did”—LRR to SS, July 14, 1998
“A hard part to do”—PF to SS, Sept 23, 1998
“Anne showed me”—AD to SS, Oct. 9, 1998
“Oh my God”—Field, SMU
“House taking summer off”—Variety, June 21, 1972
“Every time I climbed”—Davis, Lonely Life, p. 67
POSTSCRIPT
He played the tape—March 18, 1999
He started out—HH to SS, Apr. 19, 1999
“I have little interest”—ML to SS, Apr. 20, 1999
“Let me ask you” et seq.—ML to SS, Apr. 24, 1999
Rosemary Mankiewicz—RM to SS, May 19, 1999
“I came to New York”—MD to SS, May 10, 1999
Martina happened into town—ML to SS, Apr. 24, 1999
BRIEF LIVES.…
Helena Mojeska—Mordden, Fireside, p. 191
“The rudest person”—Denham, p. 217
Index
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Act One (Hart autobiography)
Actor’s Nightmare, The (play)
Adams, Lee
and Applause
career of
theme from All in the Family
Adlon, Percy
Affairs of State (Verneuil play)
Affron, Charles
Aged in Wood, sources of
Aherne, Brian
Albee, Edward
influence of All About Eve on
Alda, Robert
Aldrich, Richard
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (film)
All About Eve (Mankiewicz film: screenplay)
Aged in Wood, sources for
fire imagery in
Hollywood’s attitude toward women and
“Miss X” as inspiration for Eve Harrington
Production Code and
sources for and versions of
thirties comedies as influence on
title
treatment (as Best Performance)
trivia
20th Century-Fox’s acquisition of story
writing credits
See also Applause; Wisdom of Eve, The
All About Eve (Mankiewicz film: casting)
Birdie
Miss Caswell
Margo Channing
Addison DeWitt
Eve Harrington
Phoebe
Karen Richards
Lloyd Richards
Bill Sampson
All About Eve (Mankiewicz film: production)
art direction
costume design
filming and rushes
final scene
production cost estimate
All About Eve (Mankiewicz film: postproduction)
blunders and mistakes
editing
main title
musical score. See All About Eve
(Mankiewicz film: musical score)
redubbing
All About Eve (Mankiewicz film: musical score)
Addison’s Theme
“Beau Soir” (Debussy)
cocktail party pianist
Eve’s Theme
Karen’s Theme
“Liebestraum” (Liszt)
Margo’s Theme
popular songs used in
Theatre Theme
See also Newman, Alfred; Stroud, Claude
All About Eve (Mankiewicz film: opening and engagement)
Argentina’s opposition to
awards (the Oscars)
awards and prizes
best movie listings
Esquire magazine cartoon
famous photo still
as a film classic/institution
grosses and box office
local censorship
merchandising
plagiarism, claims of
press, public relations and reviews
press screening
premiere (Hollywood)
premiere (New York City)
as revival house/television late show favorite
road-show policy
“smoking in bed” controversy
trailers
All About Eve (Mankiewicz film: subtext, interpretations and influence)
and backstage movies
characters and quotations in the popular culture
cocktail parties
freeze-frame as technical device
as a gay male cult film
implied lesbianism of
influence (literature and plays)
influence (other films)
influence (various)
multiple-narrator flashbacks
All About Eve (NBC The Theatre Guild on the Air radio version)
“All About Eve” (neo-disco song)
All About Eve (Random House published version)
All About Eve (rock group)
All About Eve (Screen Guild Theatre radio version)
All About Eve (Screen Stories magazine)
All About My Mother (film)
All About Steve (porn film)
All About Yves (porn film)
All This and Heaven Too (film)
Allen, Arthur
Allen, Dede
Allen, Randy
Allen, Woody
Allyson, June
Almodóvar, Pedro
Ameche, Don
American Film Institute
Ames, Leon
Amor, Edward
Andrews, Julie
Andrews, Lois
Angels in America (play)
Anger, Kenneth
Anna (film)
Anna and the King of Siam (film)
Annabel Lee
Another Country (Baldwin)
Another Man’s Poison (film)
Another World (soap opera)
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
Apache Territory (film)
Applause (Broadway musical)
