All About “All About Eve” (56 page)

“Male behavior”—
Films in Review
, Mar./Apr. 1991, p. 75

“Based essentially on me”—
Films in Review
, Mar./Apr. 1991, p. 76

CHAPTER 25

“One of Anne’s greatest”—TM to SS, Aug. 21, 1997

“I wanted Michael Caine”—Ciment, p. 155

Still getting mail—Ciment, pp. 218–219

“I’m not prepared”—
NY Post
, Feb. 24, 1973

CHAPTER 26

Acting out favorite scenes—Gussow, p. 158

Novelist Joseph Hansen—JH, letter to SS, Oct. 11, 1997

“Large volume” of letters—
NY Times
, Apr. 14, 1951

J. R. Moser, et seq.—correspondence in Production Code files, AMPAS

“I discovered that”—Davis,
This ’N That
, p. 90

“All About Little Eva?”—
Variety
, Mar. 7, 1951

Maria Zeppezauer—
Variety
, Mar. 5, 1952

BOX: Local censor boards—Production Code files, AMPAS

Imitation of Life
screenplay—Fischer, p. 60

Robert Alda—Fischer, p. 68

“I was a kid”—GC to SS, Dec. 23, 1996

James Baldwin—
Another Country
, p. 32

Carey-Mankiewicz controversy—GC to SS, Dec. 23, 1996

Mankiewicz told a reporter—
NY Post
, Feb. 24, 1973

“Seven Deadly Sins Festival”—Robertson, p. 208

Bradford Samuel—Jim Faraone,
2nd Fashion Doll Makeovers
, p. 68

John Rechy—
Marilyn’s Daughter
, pp. 83–84; 143; 180

MMII
—p. 161

Timequake
—p. 188

Later that year—
TV Guide
, Aug. 8–14, 1998

William Friedkin—Byrge, p. 57

Isaac Mizrahi—
American Movie Classics
magazine, Aug. 1996

E. Lynn Harris—
Publishers Weekly
, Apr. 9, 1999

Gay filmmaker Marc Huestis—Murray, p. 143

CHAPTER 27

Cole Porter, in 1957—William McBrien,
Cole Porter
, p. 380

A 1964 taped conversation—Spada, pp. 385–387

“I had a tremendous”—CS to SS, June 26, 1998

“I was working”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998

“This time, at least,”—MO to SS, Apr. 16, 1996

“The theatre has given”—
NY Times
, Nov. 19, 1982

“We worked together”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998

According to Lee Adams—LA to SS, Mar. 8, 1999

To interest Anne Bancroft—Greenberger, p. 207

“Lauren Bacall was”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998

“I was approached”—Bacall,
Myself
, p. 339

“We went to Ron Field”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998

“I was bucking”—Field, SMU

“Larry Kasha had”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998

“My recollection”—LA to SS, Mar. 8, 1999

“I hired Strouse and Adams”—Kasha, SMU

“What happened”—CS to SS, June 26, 1998

“A settlement”—Bacall,
Myself
, p. 353

“I went to David Brown”—Kasha, SMU

“A meeting was called”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998

“A limited amount”—
NY Times
, Apr. 1, 1970

Run-of-the-play contract—Greenberger, p. 207

“We used very little”—
NY Times
, Apr. 1, 1970

The decision to incorporate—Comden and Green, in Strouse, p. 73

“Sometimes when you”—BC to SS, Sept. 16, 1998

“I’ve heard that”—BC to SS, Sept. 16, 1998

“A perfectly professional relationship”—BC to SS, Sept. 16, 1998

“It is necessary”—Frankel, p. 75

“The first meeting of actors”—Bacall,
Myself
, pp. 135–136

“The Margo Channing of
Applause
”—Bacall,
Now
, p. 139

“I’ve made an ass”—Greenberger, p. 207

“I talked with Ron”—GL to SS, Oct. 3, 1998

“It was tricky”—GL to SS, Oct. 3, 1998

“I camped it up”—GL to SS, Oct. 3, 1998

“During tryouts in Baltimore”—LRR to SS, July 14, 1998

“You do the show”—Bacall,
Myself
, p. 359

“Wonderful screaming acceptance”—DM to SS, July 8, 1998

“I clasped her hands”—LRR to SS, July 14, 1998

“The pressure was constant”—Bacall,
Myself
, p. 361

Brandon Maggart, who played—DM to SS, July 8, 1998

“The national is”—DM to SS, July 8, 1998

“It’s nice to dream”—DM to SS, July 8, 1998

“The fourth row center”—Bacall,
Myself
, pp. 361–362

“After the audition” et seq.—PF to SS, Sept. 23, 1998

“The tenth musical”—Suskin, pp. 63–64

“Whoever first-nighters are”—BC to SS, Sept. 16, 1998

“Half of my royalties”—SM to SS, July 9, 1998

“Whatever it is”—
NY Times
, Mar. 31, 1970

“A splashy bitch”—
Hollywood Reporter
, Apr. 2, 1970

“I always imagined”—
Playboy
, July 1982, p. 80

Send Lauren Bacall a telegram—Greenberger, p. 210

“I hope we meet”—Bacall,
Myself
, p. 20

“Miss Bacall leaves out”—Moseley, p. 118

“She sat on a chair”—Bacall,
Myself
, p. 369

“Joe, you have to”—TM to SS, Aug. 21, 1997

“He was happy”—Bacall,
Myself
, p. 272

“I don’t blame him”—CS to SS, June 26, 1998

Mankiewicz said—CS to SS, June 26, 1998

“Ladies and gentlemen”—PF to SS, Sept. 23, 1998

“It has put”—
LA Times
, June 20, 1971

“After a couple”—Field, SMU

Penny Fuller describes—PF to SS, Sept. 23, 1998

“Were very musical”—LRR to SS, July 14, 1998

“A little silver apple”—PF to SS, Sept. 23, 1998

“The theatre was very”—PF to SS, Sept. 23, 1998

“Did one of the best”—LRR to SS, July 14, 1998

“I hate what they did”—LRR to SS, July 14, 1998

“A hard part to do”—PF to SS, Sept 23, 1998

“Anne showed me”—AD to SS, Oct. 9, 1998

“Oh my God”—Field, SMU

“House taking summer off”—
Variety
, June 21, 1972

“Every time I climbed”—Davis,
Lonely Life
, p. 67

POSTSCRIPT

He played the tape—March 18, 1999

He started out—HH to SS, Apr. 19, 1999

“I have little interest”—ML to SS, Apr. 20, 1999

“Let me ask you” et seq.—ML to SS, Apr. 24, 1999

Rosemary Mankiewicz—RM to SS, May 19, 1999

“I came to New York”—MD to SS, May 10, 1999

Martina happened into town—ML to SS, Apr. 24, 1999

BRIEF LIVES.…

Helena Mojeska—Mordden,
Fireside
, p. 191

“The rudest person”—Denham, p. 217

Index

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Act One
(Hart autobiography)

Actor’s Nightmare, The
(play)

Adams, Lee

and
Applause

career of

theme from
All in the Family

Adlon, Percy

Affairs of State
(Verneuil play)

Affron, Charles

Aged in Wood
, sources of

Aherne, Brian

Albee, Edward

influence of
All About Eve
on

Alda, Robert

Aldrich, Richard

Alexander’s Ragtime Band
(film)

All About Eve
(Mankiewicz film: screenplay)

Aged in Wood
, sources for

fire imagery in

Hollywood’s attitude toward women and

“Miss X” as inspiration for Eve Harrington

Production Code and

sources for and versions of

thirties comedies as influence on

title

treatment (as
Best Performance
)

trivia

20th Century-Fox’s acquisition of story

writing credits

See also
Applause
;
Wisdom of Eve, The

All About Eve
(Mankiewicz film: casting)

Birdie

Miss Caswell

Margo Channing

Addison DeWitt

Eve Harrington

Phoebe

Karen Richards

Lloyd Richards

Bill Sampson

All About Eve
(Mankiewicz film: production)

art direction

costume design

filming and rushes

final scene

production cost estimate

All About Eve
(Mankiewicz film: postproduction)

blunders and mistakes

editing

main title

musical score. See
All About Eve
(Mankiewicz film: musical score)

redubbing

All About Eve
(Mankiewicz film: musical score)

Addison’s Theme

“Beau Soir” (Debussy)

cocktail party pianist

Eve’s Theme

Karen’s Theme

“Liebestraum” (Liszt)

Margo’s Theme

popular songs used in

Theatre Theme

See also
Newman, Alfred; Stroud, Claude

All About Eve
(Mankiewicz film: opening and engagement)

Argentina’s opposition to

awards (the Oscars)

awards and prizes

best movie listings

Esquire
magazine cartoon

famous photo still

as a film classic/institution

grosses and box office

local censorship

merchandising

plagiarism, claims of

press, public relations and reviews

press screening

premiere (Hollywood)

premiere (New York City)

as revival house/television late show favorite

road-show policy

“smoking in bed” controversy

trailers

All About Eve
(Mankiewicz film: subtext, interpretations and influence)

and backstage movies

characters and quotations in the popular culture

cocktail parties

freeze-frame as technical device

as a gay male cult film

implied lesbianism of

influence (literature and plays)

influence (other films)

influence (various)

multiple-narrator flashbacks

All About Eve
(NBC
The Theatre Guild on the Air
radio version)

“All About Eve” (neo-disco song)

All About Eve
(Random House published version)

All About Eve (rock group)

All About Eve
(
Screen Guild Theatre
radio version)

All About Eve
(
Screen Stories
magazine)

All About My Mother
(film)

All About Steve
(porn film)

All About Yves
(porn film)

All This and Heaven Too
(film)

Allen, Arthur

Allen, Dede

Allen, Randy

Allen, Woody

Allyson, June

Almodóvar, Pedro

Ameche, Don

American Film Institute

Ames, Leon

Amor, Edward

Andrews, Julie

Andrews, Lois

Angels in America
(play)

Anger, Kenneth

Anna
(film)

Anna and the King of Siam
(film)

Annabel Lee

Another Country
(Baldwin)

Another Man’s Poison
(film)

Another World
(soap opera)

Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare)

Apache Territory
(film)

Applause
(Broadway musical)

awards

book (Betty Comden/Adolph Green)

book (Sidney Michaels)

cast and replacements

Bette Davis and

director

Duane Fox character

Eve Harrington replacement

music and lyrics

national tour/bus-and-truck companies

Palace Theatre (NYC)

producers

rehearsals, gypsy run-through, out-of-town tryouts and previews

reviews

rights (
All About Eve
)

rights (“The Wisdom of Eve”)

songs

titles

Apple, Fiona

As You Like It
(Shakespeare)

As Young As You Feel
(film)

Astaire, Fred

Astor, Mary

Atwater, Edith

Auer, Mischa

Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens

(Steffens)

Awful Truth, The
(film)

Aznavour, Charles

Bacall, Lauren

and
Applause

career

and Len Cariou

Bette Davis and

Bachanan, Alice

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (song)

Bad and the Beautiful, The
(film)

Baker, Carroll

Baldwin, James

Ball, Lucille

Bancroft, Anne

Band Wagon, The
(film)

Bankhead, Tallulah

All About Eve (
NBC
The Theatre Guild on the Air
radio version)

The Big Show
(NBC radio)

career

Margo Channing, as inspiration for

“curtain call”

and Bette Davis

domestic arrangement

fan clubs

press and

“Tallulah Tells All” stage show

temperament

Barber, Jill

Barefoot Contessa, The
(film)

Barkleys of Broadway, The
(film)

Barnes, Clive

Barrymore, Ethel

Barrymore, John

Bates, Barbara

and
All About Eve

salary

Bates, Eve

Bautzer, Greg