Alejandro Mogollo Art strikes again with another incredible graphic design depicting Bette Davis as the iconic Margot Channing from “All About Eve.”
“All About Eve” recently celebrated its 70th anniversary, so keep a look out for a tribute to it coming soon!
Remembering the incomparable Bette Davis, who passed away on this date 30 years ago.
Bette Davis had a long and illustrious career spanning 7 decades. She won the Academy Award for ‘Best Actress‘ twice, was the first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Insitute.
Some of her most well known films include “Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?” “Now Voyager,” “Dark Victory,” and “The Virgin Queen.” But it is undoubtably her role as Margo Channing in “All About Eve” that film goers and Marilyn fans remember most as Monroe had a small, but most definitely memorable role as the light headed, but charming Miss Caswell.
Davis said in her autobiography about “All About Eve,”
“I can think of no project that from the outset was as rewarding from the first day to the last. It is easy to understand why. It was a great script, had a great director, and was a cast of professionals all with parts they liked. It was a charmed production from the word go.”
Regarding Miss Monroe:
“I felt a certain envy for what i assumed was Marilyn’s more than obvious popularity. Here was a girl who didn’t know what it was like to be lonely. Then i noticed how shy she was, and i think now that she was as lonely as I was. Lonelier. It was something I felt, a deep well of loneliness she was trying to fill.”
She is buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills in California. Her tombstone reads “She did it the hard way.”
Award season is well underway in Tinsletown as the Golden Globe Award ceremony is taking place at the Beverley Hilton Hotel in California tonight (Jan 5th 2020.)
Thoughts always turn to Marilyn and her peers whenever the annual celebrations of awarding the entertainments finest takes place. You remember all the talented individuals and classic Old Hollywood films that made their mark and took home the industries most coveted accolades.
Marilyn herself was nominated three times for a Golden Globe Award in her lifetime, taking home two out of the three nominations.
Golden Globes Won:
* 1962 Henrietta Award For World Film Favourite.
* 1960 Actress In A Leading Role Or Comedy (Some Like It Hot.)
Nominated:
*1957 Actress In A Leading Role – Musical Or Comedy (Bus Stop.)
In addition to that, many of the films that Marilyn Monroe starred or featured in, were Golden Globe Award winners in their own right:
Golden Globe Winners and Nominees:
‘All About Eve’
* 1951 Best Screenplay – Motion Picture – Joseph L. Mankiewicz (WINNER)
* 1951 Best Director – Joseph L. Mankiewicz (NOMINEE)
* 1951 Best Preformance By An Actress In A Supporting Role – Thelma Ritter (NOMINEE)
*1951 Best Preformance By An Actor In A Supporting Role – George Sanders (NOMINEE)
* 1951 Best Preformance By An Actress In A Leading Role – Bette Davis (NOMINEE)
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
*1956 Best Actor In A Leading Role – Tom Ewell (WINNER)
BUS STOP
*1957 Best Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy (NOMINEE)
* 1957 Best Actress In A Leading Role – Marilyn Monroe (NOMINEE)
SOME LIKE IT HOT
*1960 Best Motion Picture – Comedy (WINNER)
*1960 Best Actress In A Leading Role Musical Or Comedy – Marilyn Monroe (WINNER)
*1960 Best Actor In A Leading Role Musical Or Comedy – Jack Lemmon (WINNER)
LET’S MAKE LOVE
*1961 Best Picture – Musical (NOMINEE)
Marilyn attended the 17th Golden Globe Awards held on Tuesday, March 8th at the Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, when she won as Best Actress for the comedy Some Like It Hot. Looking every inch the movie star, photographs show just how elated she was that night, as if she were on top of the world.
A year later she returned on March 5th 1962 on the arm of Jose Bolanos, but some of the most iconic pictures of her that night saw her with friend and fellow actor Rock Hudson. She wore a shimmering green evening gown with earrings given to her by Frank Sinatra. The gown was one of the many items auctioned off at the famous Christie’s 1999 auction, fetching $96,000. Most recently, her 1961 World Film Favourite Golden Globe was auctioned off for a staggering and record breaking $250,000.
For more information on the Golden Globes, head to their website: https://www.goldenglobes.com/
Remembering the incomparable Bette Davis, born on this date in 1908.
Bette Davis had a long and illustrious career spanning 7 decades. She won the Academy Award for ‘Best Actress‘ twice, was the first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Insitute.
Some of her most well known films include “Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?” “Now Voyager,” “Dark Victory,” and “The Virgin Queen.” But it is undoubtably her role as Margo Channing in “All About Eve” that film goers and Marilyn fans remember most as Monroe had a small, but most definitely memorable role as the light headed, but charming Miss Caswell.
Davis said in her autobiography about “All About Eve,”
“I can think of no project that from the outset was as rewarding from the first day to the last. It is easy to understand why. It was a great script, had a great director, and was a cast of professionals all with parts they liked. It was a charmed production from the word go.”
She is buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills in California. Her tombstone reads “She did it the hard way.”
