All About Eve (1950)
IMDB #91 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/]
The Gist:
A tale of a duplicitous young girl who worms her way into the life of a legendary stage actress and manipulates the environment around to engineer her big break. The beginning suffers, not from being bad in and of itself, but from inspiring a knock off formula prevalent in stories today (girl is doe-eyed, admires great woman, wants to become great woman, starts dressing like great woman, gets progressively crazier, and so on). Because of this it feels dated without the film really warranting. Thankfully, once Eve gets her big break it becomes more of a study of the sacrifices she has made for success and what invisible and irreparable harm that does to her soul (or anyones).
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