Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for All About Eve
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
1950 · FILM

All About Eve

A rising young actress insinuates herself into the life of a fading Broadway star, manipulating her way into the spotlight while threatening to destroy everything the aging legend has built.

“It's all about women... and their men!”

Directed by
Joseph L Mankiewicz, Gerald Braun
Written by
Joseph L Mankiewicz, Mary Orr
Rated
MPA · Approved
Color
Black & White
Runtime
138 min
Drama

Synopsis

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo

Credits

Actors
Editor
Director of Photography
Writers
Directors

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 129+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Barbara McleanShot by Milton R KrasnerScored by Alfred NewmanCostumes by Edith Head

Box Office

1950 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$8.4M

Budget$1.4M
Worldwide gross$8.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

20001 theaters
$30K($57K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Alles über Evade
  • Eva al desnudoes
  • (Flemish)Eva
  • (French)Ève
  • Èvefr
  • Eva contro Evait
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesOct 13, 1950
  • CanadaNov 3, 1950
  • United KingdomDec 7, 1950

Production & Distribution

Production
20th Century Fox

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).