by Staggs, Sam
Sterling, Jan
Stevens, George
Stevens, K. T.
Stevens, Warren
Stolen Life, (British film)
Stolen Life, A (Hollywood film)
Stone, Peter
Stradner, Rosa (see also Mankiewicz, Rosa Stradner)
Strangers on a Train (Highsmith novel)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (play)
Streisand, Barbra
Stroud, Clarence
Stroud, Claude
Strouse, Charles
and Applause
career of
theme from All in the Family
Stuart, Gloria
Stuart, Randy
Sturges, Preston
Suddenly, Last Summer (film)
Sugarbaby (film)
Sullavan, Margaret
Sullivan, Barry
Summer Stock (film)
Sunrise (film)
Sunset Boulevard (film)
Sussman, Matthew
Svengali, (fictional character)
Swanson, Gloria
Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case, The (Baxt)
“Tallulah Tells All” stage show
Tammy and the Bachelor (film)
Tandy, Jessica
Tarkington, Booth
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Tom
Tebaldi, Renata
Temple, Shirley
Tender Trap, The (film)
Thalberg, Irving
That Certain Woman (film)
Theatre 80 Saint Marks
Theatre Guild on the Air
There Was a Crooked Man (film)
Thespis
They Had Faces Then (Springer/Hamilton)
This ’N That (Davis)
Thomas, Danny
Three Came Home
Three Little Girls in Blue (film)
Three Tall Women (Albee play)
Ticket to Tomahawk (film)
Tierney, Gene
Time magazine
Timequake (Vonnegut)
Tin Pan Alley (film)
Tobin, Dan
Toland, Virginia
Tom Sawyer (film)
“Tomorrow,” (song)
Tone, Franchot
Torso magazine
Touch of Evil (film)
Trevor, Claire
trivia (All About Eve)
cigarettes smoked in
general
local censorship
queen of extras
Truffaut, François
Turner, Lana
Twelve O’Clock High (film)
Twentieth Century (film)
20th Century-Fox
and stage rights to All About Eve
See also All About Eve
Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (Solomon)
Two Mrs. Carrolls, The (play)
understudies
Unfaithfully Yours (film)
United Artists
Universal/Universal International
Vale, Martin (Marguerite Vale Veiller)
Vallee, Rudy
VanDerBeets, Richard
Vanity Fair
Variety
Velvet Touch, The (film)
Vera-Ellen
Verneuil, Louis
Vertigo (film)
Vidal, Gore
Vines, Joseph
Viva Zapata (film)
Vizzard, Jack
von Stroheim, Erich
Vonnegut, Kurt
Wabash Avenue (film)
Wait ’Til the Sun Shines, Nellie (film)
Wallace, Adelaide
Wallflower (play)
Walters, Barbara
Walton, William
Warner, Jack
Warner Bros.
Warren, Lesley Ann
Warrick, Ruth
Watson, Rita
Waxman, Franz
Wayne, David
We’re Not Married (film)
Webb, Clifton
Webb, Robert D.
Wedding Present, The
Weill, Kurt
Welles, Orson
Wessely, Paula
West, Mae
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)
Wheeler, Lyle
art director for All About Eve
awards
career of
Oscars, loss and return of
Whelan, Arleen
Where Do We Go From Here? (film)
Where Love Has Gone (film)
Whirlybirds, The (TV series)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee play)
Widmark, Richard
Wiest, Dianne
Wilder, Billy
Williams, Ann
Williams, Esther
Williams, Tennessee
Willits, Malcolm
Wilson (film)
Wilson, Dooley
Windsor, David
“Winged Victory” (Army Air Force Show)
Winged Victory (film)
Winnington, Richard
Winter Meeting (film)
Winwood, Estelle
Wisdom of Eve, The (Orr radio play)
Wisdom of Eve, The (Orr and Denham stage version)
“Wisdom of Eve, The” (Orr short story)
20th Century-Fox’s acquisition of
See also “More About Eve”
Witness to Murder (film)
Wizard of Oz, The (film)
Wlasik, Stan
Wodehouse, P. G.
Woffington, Peg
Woman of the Year (Broadway musical)
women
and film editing
Hollywood’s attitude toward
Women, The (film)
Women’s Wear Daily
Wood, Sam
Woollcott, Alexander
“World of Carl Sandburg, The” tour
Worth, Irene
and Eve Harrington
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Teresa
Wuthering Heights (film)
Wyler, William
Wyman, Jane
Young, Loretta
Young, Robert
Zanuck, Darryl
Bette Davis, quarrel with
and Celeste Holm
and Joseph L. Mankiewicz
and Marilyn Monroe
See also 20th Century-Fox
Zanuck, Darryl (and All About Eve)
casting of
editing
and the filming
Hollywood premiere
the Oscar
screenplay, as editor of
treatment, revisions of
and the writing credit for
Zanuck, Dick
Zanuck, Virginia
Zeppezauer, Maria
Also by Sam Staggs
MMII: The Return of Marilyn Monroe
ALL ABOUT “ALL ABOUT EVE.” Copyright © 2000, 2001 by Sam Staggs. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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A portion of this work appeared in Vanity Fair in somewhat different form.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Staggs, Sam.
All about “All about Eve”: the complete behind-the-scenes story of the bitchiest film ever made / Sam Staggs.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-312-25268-4 (hc)
ISBN 0-312-27315-0 (pbk)
1. All about Eve (Motion picture) I. Title.
PN1997.A323 S73 2000
791.45'72—dc21 99-056341
First St. Martin’s Griffin Edition: June 2001
eISBN 9781466830431
First eBook edition: October 2012
All About “All About Eve”
