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The Lady Eve (1941)

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Reviews Counted: 28

Fresh: 28

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 8.8/10

Consensus: A career highlight for Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve benefits from Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda's sparkling chemistry, and from a script that has inspired countless battle-of-the-sexes comedies.

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Directed by Preston Sturges, THE LADY EVE stars Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Herrington, a sly con artist aboard a transatlantic ocean liner who happens to run across Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), a... Directed by Preston Sturges, THE LADY EVE stars Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Herrington, a sly con artist aboard a transatlantic ocean liner who happens to run across Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), a snake expert returning from a year in the Amazon jungle. Since Pike is the wealthy and shy heir to a beer fortune, he seems like the perfect target for one of Jean's cons, but as she deceives him she finds herself falling in love. One of Sturges's most hilarious comedies, THE LADY EVE is a romantic comedy masterpiece with two of Hollywood's stars at the top of their form. [More]

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper, Martha O'Driscoll

Director: Preston Sturges

Director: Preston Sturges
Producer: Paul Jones
Screenwriter: Preston Sturges
Composer: Sigmund Krumgold

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Oct 16, 2001

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Top of the line Preston Sturges with wonderful Barbara Stanwyck and surprisingly funny Henry Fonda.

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02/22/08
Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com

One of those movies whose battle-of-the-sexes themes are still relevant more than 50 years on.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
11/13/07
Channel 4 Film

Third writer-director effort of Preston Sturges [from a story by Monckton Hoffe] is laugh entertainment of top proportions with its combo of slick situations, spontaneous dialog and a few slapstick falls tossed in for good measure.

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11/13/07
Variety Staff
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Preston Sturges extended his range beyond the crazy farces that had made his reputation with this romantic 1941 comedy, and his hand proved just as sure.

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11/13/07
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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It's a masterclass in performance and directing %u2013 and shows how romantic comedy is not for amateurs

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10/21/07
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Preston Sturges' most brilliant film deftly combines deftly witty dialogue and slapstick comedy, splendidly acted not only by Stanwyck and Fonda but by every single member of the ensemble.

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06/26/07
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

...as powerful a feminist statement as it is a smart comedy, and all the more so for hardly seeming to break a sweat in the process.

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01/16/07
Chris Barsanti
Filmcritic.com

A beguilingly ribald sex comedy, spattered with characteristic Sturges slapstick.

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06/24/06
Tom Milne
Time Out

No review available.

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07/01/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

A wonderful picture set in a world of silly heirs and sharp-eyed dolls as remote from reality and yet wholly credible as that of P. G. Wodehouse.

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05/11/05
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine

No review available.

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04/07/05
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

As usual with Sturges, you wonder how he was able to get away with so much innuendo during Hollywood's Hayes Code period.

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03/07/05
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

No review available.

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02/22/05
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

It's just not simply an hilarious and witty battle of the sexes farce but amazingly has a tender romantic side.

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02/14/05
Dennis Schwartz
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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Scintillating Preston Sturges comedy.

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08/11/03
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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05/23/03
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Now there's no question about it: Preston Sturges is definitely and distinctly the most refreshing new force to hit the American motion pictures in the past five years.

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05/20/03
Bosley Crowther
New York Times
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Screwball comedy at its finest and one of Preston Sturges' best. This deliciously funny battle of the sexes has Barbara Stanwyck as a smart, sexy con artist who wraps a bewildered Henry Fonda around her little finger. There's also a great supporting cast.

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03/14/03
Beth Accomando
KPBS.org

Preston Sturges' delirious humor sets up Henry Fonda's wealthy dope to be taken by Barbara Stanwyck's seductive con artistry.

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03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
 
 
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