All About Eve

In Brief:

The 1950 film All About Eve stars Bette Davis as aging Broadway star Margo Channing and Anne Baxter as her eager young protege, Eve. Bette Davis , Anne Baxter , George Sanders , Celeste Holm , Marilyn Monroe Run Time: The role of Channing, which had been written for Claudette Colbert , revived Bette Davis' career after an extended slump throughout the late '40s, and provided the actress with a number of her most famous moments and lines of dialogue. ") Baxter as well had not been the producer's first choice; Jeanne Crain was going to play the role until she became pregnant just before filming was to begin.