Re: Sunset Blvd. vs. All About Eve

Date: 27 Mar 2003 02:56:27 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.past-films
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>From: Jim email-address-deleted
> "All about Eve" touches on a lot of the same themes
>about the young and ambitious deceiving the successful but fading. But it
>doesn't have those real figures who keep popping up in "Sunset Boulevard".
Ironically though, it's All About Eve (which I prefer to Sunset Boulevard)
that's rumored to be based on a true incident, Lizabeth Scott understudying and
trying to usurp Tallulah Bankhead during the run of a Broadway play Bankhead
was starring in.