All About Eve 1950. Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Gary Merrill, David Sanders, Marilyn Monroe, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, Hugh Marlowe Backstage story about a young girl, Eve Harrington who shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing, telling a melancholy life story to Margo and her friends. Margo takes Eve under her wing, but it appears that Eve has aspirations beyond just being near her idol.