Bette Davis well-known, particularly "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night". She was again nominated for an Academy Award, and critics such as Gene Ringgold described her Margo as her "all-time best performance". Pauline Kael wrote that much of Mankiewicz' vision of "the theater" was "nonsense", but commended Davis, writing "[the film is] saved by one performance that is the real thing: Bette Davis is at her most instinctive and assured. Her actress - vain, scared, a woman who goes too far in her reactions and emotions - makes the whole thing come alive." Davis won a Best Actress
All About Eve Great Movies", says Eve Harrington is "a universal type," and focuses on the aging actress plot line, comparing the film to "Sunset Boulevard." Similarly, Marc Lee's 2006 review of the film for "The Daily Telegraph" describes a subtext "into the darker corners of show business, exposing its inherent ageism, especially when it comes to female stars." Kathleen Woodward's 1999 book, "Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (Theories of Contemporary Culture)", also discusses themes that appeared in many of the "aging actress" films of the 1950s and 1960s, including "All About Eve." She reasons that Margo has three options: "To continue to