From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....

When a journalist poses as a Jewish man to write an article about anti-Semitism, he becomes the victim of religious intolerance; two cops intercept a large drug shipment from France and find themselves fighting for their lives; after stealing a prized role from her idol Margo, Eve begins to disrupt other areas of Margo's life; a woman leaves a convent to become governess to seven children in a house where the father does not allow music or entertainment;...