Desnudando a Eva [Tapa blanda] , Sam Staggs

"Undressing Eva: the title evokes all the wit, all the malice and all the wonder of classic Hollywood cinema. For millions of fans this film means more than most: it appears on every top ten list and is loved so much by fans and hardcore purists alike. Naked Eve is one of the most entertaining films in history. It's full of old-fashioned starlets - Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Gary Merrill, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, The lma Ritter, Celeste Holm - and has become the source of dozens of famous quotes. But Eve Naked is much more. And they finally tell us everything. Sam Staggs has written the definitive story of the making of this film and the enormous influence that has had both in cinematographic and popular culture. Staggs lays the film and those who made it completely naked, without any half measures. Naked is the famous European actress who inspired the character played by Bette Davis, Margo Channing (and why Tallulah Bankhead was wrong, but not entirely wrong, in assuming Margo was based on her). The passionate romance that Davis and Merrill lived almost from the first day of filming and the subsequent stormy marriage are laid bare. Naked George Sanders, whose wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor, forbade him from speaking to Marilyn Monroe on and off the set. And of course, the nude Marilyn Monroe, whose career could have come to a standstill without the boost that Eva gave to the Nude. And then there is Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who wrote and directed the film and who after Naked Eve seeded his career with artistic obituaries. And Edith Head, who designed that unforgettable cocktail dress for Bette Davis. Also exposed, of course, is Bette herself, on screen and in her private life.