All About Eve while "Harrison's Reports" called it "a fascinating, continually absorbing story about Broadway theatrical people, given a mature treatment and penetrated with realistic dialogue and flashes of slick, sardonic humor." John McCarten of "The New Yorker" called it "a thoroughly entertaining movie." Writing in 2000, film critic Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun Times" praised the film, saying Bette Davis' character "veteran actress Margo Channing in "All About Eve" was her greatest role." Boxoffice.com stated that it "is a classic of the American cinema – to this day the quintessential depiction of ruthless ambition in the entertainment industry, with legendary performances
Said the actress to the bishop Air Force c.1944-47, but may originate from the Edwardian era. The phrase is frequently used by the fictional character Simon Templar (alias "The Saint") in a long-running series of mystery books by Leslie Charteris. The phrase first appears in the inaugural Saint novel "Meet the Tiger", published in 1928. The version "as the girl said to the soldier" appears in a recorded sound test for Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film "Blackmail". Kingsley Amis uses the line in his 1954 novel "Lucky Jim", where a woman offering relationship advice to Jim Dixon says "I can't show you, as the actress said to