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The Lady Eve (1941) -- Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship...
The Lady Eve (1941) -- Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship...

Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Monckton Hoffe (story) and
Preston Sturges (writer)
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Release Date:
25 February 1941 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Eve Sure Knows Her Apples ! more
Plot:
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win more
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Susannah Straughan, London Correspondent
 (From SoundOnSight. 3 November 2009, 2:05 PM, PST)

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Clever Sturges comedy and very, very funny... more (59 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Barbara Stanwyck ... Eugenia 'Jean' Harrington

Henry Fonda ... Charles 'Charlie' Poncefort Pike
Charles Coburn ... 'Colonel' Harry Harrington
Eugene Pallette ... Horace Pike
William Demarest ... Ambrose 'Muggsy' Murgatroyd
Eric Blore ... Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith
Melville Cooper ... Gerald
Martha O'Driscoll ... Martha - the Maid
Janet Beecher ... Janet Pike
Robert Greig ... Burrows - Pike's Butler
Dora Clement ... Gertrude
Luis Alberni ... Emile, Pike's chef
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Additional Details

Runtime:
94 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

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Trivia:
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1994. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Charles and Jean are standing on the deck talking, the ambient, background sounds - of people talking and birds singing - can be heard running on a loop. The scene lasts several minutes, but the ambient sounds repeat every several seconds. more
Quotes:
Jean Harrington: I don't see why I have to do all the dirty work. There must be plenty of rich old dames waiting for you to push them around.
"Colonel" Harrington: You find them, I'll push them.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "ER: Somebody to Love (#13.3)" (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Blaydon Races more

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14 out of 17 people found the following comment useful.
Clever Sturges comedy and very, very funny..., 2 December 2003
Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

I don't know how I missed seeing this until now, but tonight I watched THE LADY EVE unfurl on TCM and took notice of how great the chemistry was between BARBARA STANWYCK and HENRY FONDA. And even more so, how fantastic their ability with screwball comedy had to be in order to make their characters as believable as they are.

Fonda, especially, impressed me with his honestly naive interpretation of a man without guile. He seemed totally hoodwinked by Stanwyck's con artist, even in those relentless close-ups that captured every expression on his Honest Abe face. Stanwyck, of course, had a role tailored to her abilities and was at the top of her form as an actress.

I would have liked a better role for Melville Cooper who is somewhat wasted in his rather thankless supporting role but Charles Coburn, William Demarest and Eric Blore have no such trouble with full-bodied character parts.

Sturgess obviously is a master of long takes--and proves it again in his seduction scene where Stanwyck toys with Fonda's hair as she drapes herself across him, a spider spinning her web. Her best moment is the scene in the dining room where she uses her make-up mirror to make a running commentary on all the women who are ogling the rich catch (Fonda) while he becomes aware of the female attention. Although Fonda's pratfalls are painfully real, Sturges lets them occur a little too frequently. Demarest too has his share of falls--as he did in that other Sturges masterpiece, THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK.

Fonda's performance ranks with his mild professor in THE MALE ANIMAL. As for Stanwyck, her professionalism has never been more solid. She was nominated in 1941 for Best Actress in BALL OF FIRE but she is equally impressive in her dual role assignment here.

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