April 5 movie: All About Eve. What an amazing movie this is. Bette Davis is perfection, as is George Sanders and of course Thelma Ritter. Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill and Marilyn Monroe also turn in excellent performances. The weak spot for me is Anne Baxter. She doesn't ruin the movie or anything, she's a fine enough actress. But "fine enough" just isn't enough on the same screen with the likes of Davis and Sanders. I wonder what this movie would have been like if someone like Patricia Neal had played Eve.
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