The Lady Eve (1941)
Director: Preston Sturges
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette
Running Time: 94 minutes
Production Co.: Paramount Pictures
Academy Award Nominations:
Best Writing
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike (Henry Fonda) meets con-artist Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms. To get back at him, Jean disguises herself as an English lady, and comes back to tease and torment him. Her father (Charles Coburn) is also a con-artist. Jean decides to keep away but she can't.
This is the screwball comedy. Barbara Stanwyck is absolutely amazing (and quite sexy) and Henry Fonda is good as the dimwitted scientist. Directed by the great Preston Sturges who has really grown on me. Barbara Stanwyck portayal of "Eve" as a temptress is spot on. She is very seductive. This has got lots of laughs and slapstick, which Fonda performs perfectly. I give a thumbs up and recommend it fully! Other Preston Sturges films i recommend include Sullivan's Travels and The Palm Beach Story!!
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