The Movie That Changed My Life

Please take your seats and switch off your mobile phones, as Radio 2 heads to the movies with six well-known figures choosing their favourite film. Honor Blackman chooses the 1950 classic All About Eve, in which ageing actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis), sees her career threatened by young devotee and aspiring star, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). The film, which includes among its cast a young Marilyn Monroe, won six Academy Awards, and its screenplay by director Joseph Mankiewicz is a sharp and witty take on the ruthless world of celebrity. Honor recalls when she first saw the film as a rising star herself, and the effect it had on her own acting career.