This is the film with the most Oscar nominations (14 times, and was later tied by "Titanic"), and the original title of the film means "everything about Eve". The word comet is used very well. First of all, the title of the film cannot use a shooting star, because shooting stars often have the meaning of "dead early", which does not match the story. The use of "Comet Beauty" reflects the merciless replacement reality of the fleeting entertainment industry, especially the collocation of the common name "Beauty" and the comet, which forms a sharp contrast and alludes to the theme of the film. The original source of the story of "Comet Beauty" was a novel "The Wisdom of Eve" published in "Metropolis" magazine in 1946. Fox purchased the copyright of the novel for $5,000. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz will Combining the storyline of the novel with the real experience of an actress he knows well creates this classic women's film. "Comet Beauty" contains a profound philosophy of life and metaphors and exposures to the shortcomings of Hollywood and even the United States at that time, the scene scheduling, the use of camera language, especially the wonderful dialogue, can be called a classic film textbook.
The selection of the protagonist Margo Channing made the producers spend a lot of thought. Before Bette Davis, many Hollywood actresses competed for this role, but they were all rejected by the director. For example, Mankiewicz thought that the Oscar winner Su Shane Hayward was too young, and Marlene Dietrich was considered too German. Ingrid Bergman was also cast as Margo, but she had just fallen in love with Italian director Roberto Rossellini and was reluctant to leave Italy. After some selection, the producers identified Claudette Colbert as Margot Channing, but unfortunately Claudette Colbert suffered a back injury, so Twentieth Century Fox delayed it. Filming for two months, waiting for Claudette Colbert to recover. But two months later Claudette Colbert was still unavailable for the film, with Bette Davis taking over as the charming and mature Margot Channing. The heroine played by Bette Davis is a humorous and elegant woman in the script, and the director made this character more rude according to Bette Davis' own image characteristics. Bette Davis thinks the film's lines are "the best I've ever read", and is rumored to be in a relationship with the most important man in her life, Gary Merrill, and the two married after the film was completed auditorium. Director Joseph Mankiewicz once commented on Bette Davis, "Bette Davis is amazing. She is the dream of all directors: a fully prepared actor."
After confirming the first heroine, the producers initially selected Jenny Crane as the second heroine of the film. Crane was very popular at the time, but the director felt that Crane lacked a sense of shrewdness and scheming. With her temperament, it was difficult for audiences to associate her with an unscrupulous woman, plus Crane was pregnant at the time, so the role ended up being played by Anne Baxter. Anne Baxter had a ten-year supporting role before "The Comet" and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Razor's Edge" (1946). In reality, Bette Davis was 42 years old when she starred in Comet Beauty, and Anne Baxter was still very young at the time. She not only showed excellent acting talent in the film, but also successfully gave the media Pressured her to get an Oscar nomination for Best Actress instead of Best Supporting Actress. 1950 was definitely the most powerful and competitive year for actresses in film history. Judy Holliday "Born Yesterday" defeated Gloria Swanson, "Sunset Boulevard" and Bette Davis. This award is highly controversial because Bette Davis is clearly better than Jodie Holliday, but there is a reason why the Oscars made this decision, Anne Baxter and Betty Davey The co-nomination of St. Andrews scattered the votes of Bette Davis, and Baxter was invisibly the biggest obstacle to blocking Davis' third Oscar.
Bette Davis is the second-best actress on the AFI's list of the greatest screen legends (first is Katherine Hepburn). She has been the No. 1 position in Warner Bros. for many years and has the reputation of "Warner Bros.". In 1977, Davis became the first actress to receive the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. Compared to his contemporaries, Davis was a true star of the thirties and forties. The characters she plays are varied, and even if the work itself is mediocre, she can still perform her own style. How unpopular Bette Davis' work was before "The Comet", when director Joseph L. Mankiewicz told her that Hollywood thought she was difficult to get along with, she admitted that in the early days of "The Comet" During the filming of the film, she was terrified, so she had to toughen up to protect herself.
When audiences see me on screen, they don't think that my show is the result of countless people working behind the scenes. Bette Davis is very grateful to director Mankiewicz, who she has said saved her from death. Critics praised Bette Davis' performance in "The Comet," where she made some of her popular lines, such as "fasten your seat belts, there's a rough night ahead." Critic Pauline Kael, who has always had a low opinion of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's films, praised Bette Davis, "The truth is that an actor saved the film: Bette Davis made her It's the best that makes the whole empty film come alive." Bette Davis won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award and the New York Film Critics Association Best Actress Award for "Beauty on the Comet." Bette Davis' performance is full of passion and perfection in everything. There are often in-depth discussions and even disputes with producers, directors and other actors in order to be able to shape the characters. Her outspoken personality, crisp voice and cigarette-dipping image are often imitated and sarcastic.
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