Review of All About Eve

. . . who had been virtually black-listed by Tinsel Town for her wanton capriciousness, malingering, and shirking of agreed-upon duties. "You'll never work in this town again!!" genius filmmaker "D. F. Zanuck" told ungrateful Labor rabble-rouser "B. Davis" when she refused to SAG as appropriate for a matron of her age. The history of the relationship between far-sighted Management and "instant gratification"-seeking workers here in our USA Homeland is marked by many egregious acts of virtual warfare, as illustrated by such films as ON THE WATERFRONT, MATEWAN, and NORMA RAE. When Union Thugs such as "Dolly P." are duct-taping supervisors to office chairs during deplorable Leftist fare of the 9 TO 5 ilk, moviegoers know that Mr. Zanuck has had NOTHING to do with these outrages! The plot of ALL ABOUT EVE runs parallel to Real Life, this BACKSTORY outing reveals. Though Davis had ostensibly left SAG in a snit, her Union minions conspired to force her down Mr. Zanuck's throat by trumping up a vacancy in the already-cast "Margo Channing" role, which every SAG chick declined to fill--except for the ubiquitous Ms. Davis, a proven box office flop. Fortunately for this flick's bottom line prospects, the Midas-like Mr. Z. sagely surrounded Davis with a bevy of stout-hearted men, including "G. Sanders," "G. Merrill," "H. Marlowe," and "G. Ratoff." These guys compensated so well for the union mole's inadequacies that ALL ABOUT EVE captured several highly-coveted Oscars for Mr. Z., BACKSTORY recounts. The moral of this tale seems to be that "All's well that ends well when a Tough Guy's in charge"!