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All About Eve premiered in New York City on 13 October 1950.

Based on Mary Orr’s short story, “The Wisdom of Eve” (published in Cosmopolitan in May 1946), Joseph Mankiewicz changed many elements of the original story, and producer Darryl F. Zanuck cut about 50 pages of Mankiewicz’s script and ignored the writer/director’s suggestion of Susan Hayward to star. Zanuck offered the part of Margo Channing to a number of actors before settling on Bette Davis.

The film was an immediate commercial and critical success, and was nominated for a record 14 Academy Awards, including Best Actress (Anne Baxter and Bette Davis), Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter), Best Cinematography (Milton Krasner), Best Editing (Barbara McLean), Best Score (Alfred Newman), and Best Art Direction.

Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - Marlene Dietrich as Christine Helm Vole in a promotional shoot by John Engstead. The actress was wearing a turtleneck sweater, “half” trousers and two different types of shoes - ballerina flats and high-heeled mules.

The film is inspired by Agatha Christie’s short story with the same title, but an extra scene was written in order to show just one of Marlene Dietrich's famous legs: it required 145 extras, 38 stunt men and $ 90,000. 

Bozzetto di Edith Head (famosa costumista della Paramount Pictures) per Grace Kelly in "Rear Window" (La finestra sul cortile) di Alfred Hitchcock