All About Eve a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film has been selected by the American Film Institute for many of their 100 Years lists. When AFI named Bette Davis #2 on its list of the greatest female American screen legends, "All About Eve" was the film selected to highlight Davis' legendary career. The Writers Guild of America has ranked the film's screenplay as the fifth greatest ever written. The film opens with the image of a fictitious award trophy, described by DeWitt as the "highest honor our theater knows: the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement." The statuette is modelled after
Said the actress to the bishop the bishop." The title character on the US TV show "Archer", after several seasons of using "phrasing!" to draw attention to double entendres, briefly toyed with "...said Ripley to the android Bishop", a reference to both this phrase and the 1986 film "Aliens." "That's what she said," is used in the 1969 British play, "In Celebration" by David Storey, in a way that suggests it is already a well-known one-liner to the audience. By 1973, "that's what "she" said" had already been characterized as an "ancient one-liner". In the early 1990s, it was a recurring joke in the "Saturday Night