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   • 7.7/10 7.7/10 IMDb
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   Critics consensus A career highlight for Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve benefits from Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda's sparkling chemistry -- and a script that inspired countless battle-of-the-sexes comedies. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

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     • Outstanding classic comedy. The Lady Eve is one of the most memorable comedies of the golden age, and today it stands as a highly entertaining movie that has a lot of enjoyably dated comedy.
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2. www.rogerebert.com › great-movie-the-lady-eve-1941The Lady Eve movie review & film summary (1941) | Roger Ebert

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   Nov 23, 1997 · Although the movie would be inconceivable without Fonda, "The Lady Eve” is all Stanwyck's; the love, the hurt and the anger of her character provide the motivation for nearly every scene, and what is surprising is how much genuine feeling she finds in the comedy.

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   Is the Lady Eve a good movie?

   • P reston Sturges’ The Lady Eve is some kind of great movie. And yet, like most of the best Hollywood movies of its time, its emotional range is narrow, it makes almost no pretensions to observation of American life or to social satire, its characterization is almost nil and its conflicts a clash of stereotypes.

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   How hard is it to make a movie like 'the Lady Eve'?

   • A 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. Consider the scenes where Jean masquerades as the Lady Eve.

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   Who starred in the Lady Eve?

   • Charles Coburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve. When anyone asks my favorite movie of all time, my answer is immediate and always the same.

   100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades: The Lady Eve (1941)

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   Is 'the Lady Eve' a romantic comedy?

   • After The Lady Eve premiered at the Rialto Theatre, The New York Times reviewer Bosley Crowther characterized the film as "a sparkling romantic comedy". He further described the director's work: "It isn't often that this corner has good reason to bang a gong and holler 'Hurry, hurry, hurry!'

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   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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   • Actors: Barbara Stanwyck

   • Director: Preston Sturges
   • Produce Company: Paramount Pictures

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   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...

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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.

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   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.

   • 7.7/10 (24K)
   • Genre: Comedy, Romance

   • Director: Preston Sturges

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   Oct 15, 2001 · Preston Sturges’ The Lady Eve is some kind of great movie. And yet, like most of the best Hollywood movies of its time, its emotional range is narrow, it makes almost no pretensions to observation of American life or to social satire, its characterization is almost nil and its conflicts a clash of stereotypes.

9. www.deepfocusreview.com › definitives › the-lady-eveThe Lady Eve | The Definitives | Deep Focus Review

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   Brian Eggert's essay about The Lady Eve provides an in-depth critical analysis, exploring its production, history, and themes. Compare today’s average romantic comedy to the work of the genre’s most celebrated practitioner, Preston Sturges, and it becomes tragically clear