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The Lady Eve

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The Lady Eve

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Summary

Classic screwball comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.Working the cruise liners, beautiful trickster Jean Harrington believes that the highly eligible Charles Pike is there for the taking. If she plays her cards right.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Tony Sloman

This wonderfully witty masterpiece was written and directed by the inimitable Preston Sturges. The plot gives a couple of near career-best roles to two of Hollywood's finest, who are perfectly cast here. Henry Fonda plays a wealthy young man obsessed by snakes, who lays himself wide open to the schemes of professional con artist Charles Coburn and his daughter, Barbara Stanwyck. Fonda's buddy, William Demarest, intervenes, but Stanwyck, undeterred, later reappears in disguise at Fonda's palatial manse and tries again. Naturally, the slick, assured sexual opportunist falls for the gauche brewer's son who has spent a year up the Amazon, resulting in a sparkling combination of romance and screwball comedy that is still unequalled. There was a 1956 remake with Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven called The Birds and the Bees, but it didn't come within spitting distance of this great original.

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Cast

rolenameJean Harrington / Lady Eve SidwichBarbara StanwyckCharles Poncefort PikeHenry Fonda"Colonel" HarringtonCharles CoburnMr PikeEugene PalletteMuggsyWilliam DemarestSir Alfred McGlennan Keith / "Pearly"Eric BloreGeraldMelville CooperMarthaMartha O'DriscollMrs PikeJanet BeecherBurrowsRobert GreigGertrudeDora ClementButlerWilson Benge

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rolenameDirectorPreston Sturges

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Theatrical distributor

BFI Distribution

Released on

2019-02-15

Languages

English

Available on

DVD

Formats

Black and white

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