All About Eve

In the film All About Eve, (directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and released in 1950), Eve Harrison (Anne Baxter) was a young woman with evil running through her veins. She wanted to be 'somebody' and chose to get there through Margo Channing (Betty Davis) who was a famous stage star. Eve would do whatever it took to get where she wanted to be, including hurt the ones that trusted her and took her in as a …

…to. Each of their personalities made it possible for her to suceed in getting what she wanted. Margo's conceitedness and insecurities, along with Karen being too trusting. Addison De Witt's popular past history and Lloyd's blindness due to the thought of his plays being acted out exactly how he wrote them also made it easier. Had Birdie been higher in her position, Eve wouldn't have gotten as far as she did, not with them anyway.