History Film / AllAboutEve

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->"''Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night.''"

%%* AgentPeacock: Addison again.
* AlliterativeName: Addison at one point calls Miss Caswell 'Claudia', meaning she's an example.

-->'''Bill''': (''on his way to fly to Hollywood'') Anything you'd like me to tell Creator/TyronePower?\\

-->"You're an improbable person Eve and so am I, [[NotSoDifferentRemark we have that in common]]. Also [[MisanthropeSupreme a contempt for humanity]], an inability to love or be loved, insatiable ambition and talent. We deserve each other."

%%* TheDandy: Addison.

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Margo. Also Addison and Birdie, to nearly as great an extent.

** Some subtle, non-sexual ones in the play titles: aging actress Margo stars in "Aged In Wood". [[spoiler:Eve spends a sizeable portion of the plot gunning for the lead in the play "Footprints on the Ceiling". Indeed, in the course of doing this her persona does "flip over".]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Addison mentions that Eve's parents are worried about her - having not heard from her in three years.

%%* GeniusDitz: Lloyd Richards and Bill Sampson.

%%* GratuitousFrench: Used by a few characters.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: [[spoiler: Eve is caught out in her lies when she says she saw Margo perform at the Shubert Theatre in San Francisco - a city which doesn't have a Shubert Theatre. Addison lampshades this; saying after all the other well thought out stories she made up about herself, that one was far too easy to expose]].
* ITakeOffenceToThatLastOne: Out of all the insults Margo hurls at her, Birdie retorts most to the "fifth rate Vaudeville star":
--> "I closed the first act for eleven years and you know it!"

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Karen sees herself as this, as she's only known for being married to a playwright. She however is not an example in the film itself - as she's an active character defined more by her relationship to Margo than Lloyd.

-->'''Eve:''' ''(opens door insistently)'' Get out!\\

** In Addison's opening monologue:
---> Eve... but more of Eve, later. All about Eve, in fact.

'''Eve:''' What of it!? ''[stomps away from Addison]''\\

'''Eve:''' ''[whirls round, enraged]'' She never proved anything, not a thing!\\

'''Eve:''' ''[breaking down]'' She was a liar! SHE WAS A LIAR!\\
'''Addision:''' ''[icily]'' Answer my question, weren't you ''paid'' to get out of town? ''[Eve falls onto the bed, sobbing; Addison impassively stands over her]'' There was no "Eddie", no pilot. You've never been married. That was not only a lie, it was an insult to dead heroes and the women who loved them. ''[he sits on the bed and leans close to Eve]'' San Francisco has no Shubert Theater! You've never been to San Francisco, ''[grabs Eve and turns her face toward his]'' that was a ''stupid'' lie, easy to expose, not worthy of you!\\
'''Eve:''' ''[through tears]'' I had to get in to meet Margo! I had to say something, be somebody, MAKE HER LIKE ME!\\

'''Eve:''' That's not true!-\\
'''Addison:''' ''I was there!'' I saw you and heard you through the dressing room door. ''[Eve falls back and continues sobbing]'' You used my name and column to blackmail Karen into getting you the part of Cora, and you lied to me about it.\\
'''Eve:''' ''[pounding the mattress]'' NO! NO! NO!...\\
'''Addison:''' I had lunch with Karen not three hours ago; as always with women who try to find out things, she told more than she learned. ''[Eve continues sobbing; Addison sits up straight again]'' Now, do you want to change your story about Lloyd beating at your door the other night?\\
'''Eve:''' ''[completely broken]'' Please... ''please''...

* InsufferableGenius: Margo, Bill, and Addison.

%%* BreakingLecture: Addison, to Eve. Taking her inflated ego down a notch by calling her out on all her lies. Lying about her dead fiancee, lying about being Eve's biggest most kind and devoted fan, lying where she lived in San Francisco, and her manipulation of other people around her simply for a role in a play with no remorse of what happens to those lives she's ruined. And then there's the affair she was blackmailed into leaving town about. After all of this thrown in her face, Eve is in tears.
%%* CampStraight: Addison. Who has a large formal vocabulary, fashionable sense of style and mannerisms, and in the end he tells Eve that she belongs to him.

* ChristmasCake: Margo is starting to become aware that she's hit forty and Bill is eight years younger; worrying that she's too old to have a future with him. Part of her dislike of Eve (at first anyway) is fear that Bill will fall for a younger girl instead.