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10/01/02
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
Reviews for The Lady Eve
Stanwyck and Fonda are great. Another masterpiece from Sturges. A movie that can be enjoyed over and over.
08/15/02
Crackles with a level of wit and sexual innuendo that makes you wish they still made sex comedies for adults.
04/12/02
Preston Sturges' ode to romance as the greatest con game of all
10/23/01
Sturges's chic, sly little masterpiece of comic seduction.
01/01/00
Top CriticA movie like The Lady Eve is so hard to make that you can't make it at all unless you find a way to make it seem effortless. Preston Sturges does a kind of breathless balancing act here, involving romance, deception and physical comedy.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe Lady Eve (1941) is a sophisticated romantic/sex comedy (with light romance and mock seduction scenes) - a classic screwball film,
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