All About Eve: One of the Greatest Films Ever Made

All About Eve features a trio of powerhouse performances from Oscar winners Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, and Celeste Holm. “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” – Margo Channing (Bette Davis) While Joseph L. Mankiewicz bookends the film with the fictitious Sarah Siddons Society honoring Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), the film quickly jumps into her backstory. Mankiewicz presents Eve’s climb through the eyes of three different characters. Anyway, Harrington was a big…

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Exodus: An Epic Film About Israel’s Founding

Exodus puts the epic into epic film with a three and a half hour run time but remains notable for helping end the Hollywood blacklist. I must first confess that I have not read the novel by Leon Uris. Trumbo bases his script on the international bestseller, which retells the the founding of the modern state of Israel in a way that only historical fiction can. That being said, it took a brief online search…

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