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 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