All About Eve that formed the basis for the film. Bette Davis played three roles on film that had been originated by Tallulah Bankhead — "Dark Victory", "Jezebel" and "The Little Foxes", much to Bankhead's chagrin. Bankhead and Davis were considered to be somewhat similar in style. Several decades later Davis called Channing "the essence of a Tallulah Bankhead kind of actress" in an interview with Barbara Walters. The production is notable in that Mary Orr, of "The Wisdom of Eve," played the role of Karen Richards. The cast also featured Alan Hewitt as Addison DeWitt (who narrated), Beatrice Pearson as Eve Harrington,
About Last Night (2014 film) film would pass but fall short of the similar film "Think Like a Man" (2012), which grossed . The "Los Angeles Times" said the initial reviews for "About Last Night" were "largely positive" and better than those for Hart's film "Ride Along", which was released the previous month. It reported that critics found the film "pretty satisfying, if rather familiar" and that the reviews, including negative ones, highlighted in particular "the comic relief of Hart and Hall". The film review website Metacritic surveyed and assessed 20 reviews as positive, 9 as mixed, and 1 as negative. It gave an aggregate