From Margo Channing to Margaret Elliot: The Aging Actress, Age Performance, and the Dictates of Aging in Joseph Mankiewicz’s All about Eve and Stuart Heisler’s The Star

Bette Davis played the role of an aging actress in different films throughout her career. In Joseph Mankiewicz’s All about Eve (1950), Davis performs one of her most highly acclaimed parts as Margo Channing, a mature actress who must face the decline of her acting career upon the arrival of a younge...

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Main Author: Marta Miquel-Baldellou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athens Institute for Education and Research 2023-07-01
Series:Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts
Online Access:http://www.athensjournals.gr/humanities/2023-10-3-5-Baldellou.pdf