20 Amazing Facts About All About Eve

As aforementioned, Tallulah Bankhead was greatly offended by the movie and even considered suing 20th Century Fox because she thought Margo Channing was an imitation of herself.

Part of the reason why is because Bette Davis performed the character with a raspy voice, similar to Tallulah’s. Davis finally put the on-going rumours to an end by reluctantly admitting why she had such a husky tone.

Davis was going through a bitter divorce with William Grant Sherry around the time of shooting the production. She had been in a fiery row with her almost ex-husband and during an argument, she had burst a blood vessel in her throat. Director Mankiewicz liked the croaky quality so much that he didn’t make Davis work around it and allowed her to speak in her natural register.