One of those movies whose battle-of-the-sexes themes are still relevant more than 50 years on.
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11/13/07
The Lady Eve (1941)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:27
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.7/10
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... [More]
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette
Director: Preston Sturges
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Reviews for The Lady Eve
Sturges's chic, sly little masterpiece of comic seduction.
01/01/00
No review available.
04/07/05
Crackles with a level of wit and sexual innuendo that makes you wish they still made sex comedies for adults.
04/12/02
Stanwyck and Fonda are great. Another masterpiece from Sturges. A movie that can be enjoyed over and over.
08/15/02
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.
05/20/03
No review available.
08/22/03
...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.
01/16/07
No review available.
02/22/05
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.
11/13/07
Top CriticIt's just not simply an hilarious and witty battle of the sexes farce but amazingly has a tender romantic side.
02/14/05
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.
06/26/07
Preston Sturges' ode to romance as the greatest con game of all
10/23/01
As usual with Sturges, you wonder how he was able to get away with so much innuendo during Hollywood's Hayes Code period.
03/07/05
No review available.
10/01/02
Scintillating Preston Sturges comedy.
08/11/03
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.
05/11/05
Preston Sturges' delirious humor sets up Henry Fonda's wealthy dope to be taken by Barbara Stanwyck's seductive con artistry.
03/10/03
Romantic comedy perfection.
11/24/02
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