Top of the line Preston Sturges with wonderful Barbara Stanwyck and surprisingly funny Henry Fonda.
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02/22/08
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
One of those movies whose battle-of-the-sexes themes are still relevant more than 50 years on.
11/13/07
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.
11/13/07
Top CriticPreston 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 a masterclass in performance and directing %u2013 and shows how romantic comedy is not for amateurs
10/21/07
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
...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
A beguilingly ribald sex comedy, spattered with characteristic Sturges slapstick.
06/24/06
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
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04/07/05
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
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02/22/05
It's just not simply an hilarious and witty battle of the sexes farce but amazingly has a tender romantic side.
02/14/05
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08/22/03
Scintillating Preston Sturges comedy.
08/11/03
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05/23/03
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
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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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