Burned by the Bright Lights: Ambition, Applause and Artifice in All About Eve

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This classic film by Joseph L Mankiewicz examines how a desire for fame can poison relationships and morality, and is as relevant to today's celebrity culture as it was to the 1950s culture from which it emerged, writes Jasmine Crittenden.

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Film as Text, senior secondary, tertiary, 1950s cinema, classic cinema, American cinema, Bette Davis, jealousy, theatre, satire, George Sanders, Hugh Marlowe, Celeste Holme, Gregory Ratoff, Gary Merrill, patriarchal society, Thelma Ritter, Anne Baxter, black-and-white cinema.