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re: It's not based on the movie.

Posted by:	AlanScott 06:01 am EDT 03/15/14
In reply to:	It's not based on the movie. - Michael_212 03:04 am EDT 03/15/14

The Applause situation is perhaps a bit more ambiguous. The credits say, "Based on the film 'All About Eve' and the original story by Mary Orr." The producer did not have the rights to the film when the writing started. Comden and Green came on board in May 1969, replacing Sidney Michaels. At that time they were told that the production had the rights to the story and a "limited amount" of the film script. They weren't really sure what that meant, but they were told that they couldn't use any character in the film who was not in the story. Which meant no Addison DeWitt. Late in the summer of 1969 they were told that full rights to the film had been obtained, but by that time they'd written two drafts without Addison DeWitt. They left it that way, partly because they thought that a producer made more sense than a critic as the character who'd have power over Eve. Never having read the story, I don't know how much of the musical comes only from the film. I do think we can say, as we can with A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, that there would have been no musical without the film.

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