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- A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him. Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con artist Jean Harrington on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms.
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Nov 23, 1997 · Stanwyck plays Jean Harrington, a con woman who travels first class with her father and their valet, fleecing rich travelers in card games and whatever else comes along. She sets her sights on Charles Pike (Fonda), heir to a brewery fortune, as he comes aboard after a snake-hunting expedition in South America.
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The Lady Eve is a 1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. [2] The film is based on a story by Monckton Hoffe about a mismatched couple who meet on board an ocean liner.
The Lady Eve: Directed by Preston Sturges. With Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette. A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.
- (24K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Preston Sturges
- 1941-03-21
A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him. Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con artist Jean Harrington on a ship.
Preston Sturges' romantic comedy The Lady Eve (1941) appears at first to be a classy crime thriller movie, then devolves into a study of what people want in their ideal spouse.
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- Barbara Stanwyck
- Preston Sturges
- Paramount Pictures
After Charles Poncefort Pike, an ophiologist and heir to the Pike's Pale Ale fortune, leaves a zoological expedition in the South American jungle, he boards an ocean liner headed for the East Coast.
Jul 26, 2023 · Writer-director Preston Sturges’ The Lady Eve is the greatest American movie comedy, period, a definitive movie about the unreliability of other humans, about the cruelties people can...
