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All About Eve (1950) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The hands in the bedside clocks do not move
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Eve and Addison De Witt are walking down the street in New Haven from the Schubert Theater, the pedestrians behind them are walking at a faster pace, but never gain any ground on them.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of Addison DeWitt's "introduction-speech" of everyone in the movie, he's supposed to look at the stage. But the rest of the audience behind him is clearly staring in a different direction.
  
  

• Continuity: In the closing credits, the character of Bill Sampson is shown as Bill Simpson.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: While Phoebe is looking at herself in the mirror during the final scene, a crew member sitting on a crane is visible for a few seconds at the top of the shot.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Margo reads the note written by Eve, Bill says, "I understand she's the understudy in there." However, when he turns his head to the camera, his lips aren't forming any words.
  
  
• Continuity: Bill prepares only two martinis and gives one to Margo and the other to Karen. However, after she drinks, Margo gives him back the empty glass and receives one more.
  
  
• Continuity: After she drinks the martinis, Margo goes up the stairs holding the cigarette in her right hand. Next shot it is in her left hand.
  
  
• Continuity: Sitting on the stair step behind Eve, Bill leans his right arm on his legs. In the subsequent shot, when she stands up, his right hand appears high about his head.
  
  
• Continuity: In The Cub Room, Margo holds a lit cigarette. In the next shot, without having put it in her mouth, she puffs a cloud of smoke.
  
  
• Continuity: After Bill proposes a toast to Margo, she changes the cigarette from her left hand to her right. But next shot it is still in her left hand.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before he enters Eve's suite, DeWitt swaps his cane from his left hand to the right. In following shot, shown from inside, he repeats the change.
  
  
• Continuity: After she arrives at home, Eve picks up one ice cube, puts it in the glass and pours a drink. Phoebe startles her and she drops the drink. Phoebe gathers the glass and two ice cubes.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the first scene just as the camera pulls away from the award plaque, the dolly tracks are visible on the floor.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the Cub room, after Eve has returned from her restroom talk with Karen, Addison DeWitt is tapping his cigarette into the ashtray. The cigarette falls off from the holder. He continues tapping until he realizes it fell off and then he attempts to hide the holder behind his hands.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Eve tells her life story in the dressing room, she says "then the war came, and we got married. Eddie was in the air force - and they sent him to the South Pacific." The Air Force, wasn't formed until after the war in 1947. During the war it was called the Army Air Forces.
  
  
• Continuity: When Margo arrives at the theatre, she enters through a door with glass panes, but in reverse shot as she comes into lobby, door is solid with no panes.
  
  

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