
[1950]
DIRECTED BY: Joseph Mankiewicz
RELEASE DATE: 01.01.2005
STARRING:
(Los Angeles Times)
"One of the smartest pictures of all time - a picture for any era."
(Time Out Film Guide Review)
"Never-bettered melodrama of backstage bitchery. Her display as Margo Channing shows [Bette] Davis at the top of her game, not only for the acid-tongued egotism and bristling paranoia about the effects of the passing years, but for the moving realisation of the emotional toll exacted by her glittering career. Along the way we get [George] Sanders - priceless barbed aperçus and steely scheming, a succulent cameo from a youthful [Marilyn] Monroe and more quotable dialogue in one movie than most screenwriters manage in a lifetime."