QWere the characters based on real people?
AGerman/Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner has been named by author Mary Orr as well as by director Joseph Mankiewicz, as the inspiration for the character of Margo Channing. As reported in The New York Times (1 October, 2000) and in Vanity Fair (April, 1999), Bergner recounted an incident to Orr in which a would-be Eve Harrington, a young actress calling herself Martina Lawrence (after a character played on stage by Bergner), stood outside the stage door for months wearing a red coat. Orr: "The girl lied to her, deceived her, did things behind her back, and even went after her husband..."
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QAny recommendations for movies with a character as despicable as Eve?
AThe money-grubbing Veda Forrester (Ann Blyth) in Mildred Pierce (1945) should be enough to raise your hankles. Many find Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (1939) to be infuriating, although some viewers say that they feel sorry for her at the end. Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) in Network (1976) is also high on a lot of many detestometers. More recently, Drew Barrymore played the scheming and contemptible Ivy in Poison Ivy (1992).
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