All About Eve

Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 1950 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A young woman waits at the stage door every night for Margo Channing, a Broadway star of forty, and is taken in as an assistant on the strength of a hard-luck story. She makes herself indispensable to Margo, then to Margo's director, playwright and friends, while a critic watches with interest. Ambition as a hall of mirrors.

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