BP026 All About Eve (1950) with special guest Yasmine Akram

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and
Tom Salinsky and special guest Yasmine Akram.


Episode 26: All About Eve (1950)


Released 16 January 2019


For this episode, we watched All About Eve, written and directed
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with cinematography by Milton R Krasner,
music by Alfred Newman and starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter,
George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe and
Thelma Ritter.


From a haul of 14 Academy Award nominations (matched only by
Titanic and La La Land), it gained six wins, two for Mankiewicz,
one for George Sanders and for its costume design and sound
recording as well as Best Picture.


The Hollywood Ten (short film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taancRcLQ8o



Next time we will be discussing The Great
Ziegfeld. If you want to watch it before listening to
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