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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Charles Coburn, Melville Cooper, Robert Warwick, Martha O'Driscoll, Barbara Stanwyck, Eric Blore, Walter Walker, Jimmy Conlin, Evelyn Beresford, Julius Tannen, Eugene Pallette, Frances Raymond ...MORE

Cast: Charles Coburn, Melville Cooper, Robert Warwick, Martha O'Driscoll, Barbara Stanwyck, Eric Blore, Walter Walker, Jimmy Conlin, Evelyn Beresford, Julius Tannen, Eugene Pallette, Frances Raymond, Janet Beecher, Reginald Sheffield, Al Bridge, Bess Flowers, Henry Fonda, William Demarest, Arthur Hoyt, Luis Alberni, Jack Richardson ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic Comedy, Screwball Comedy, Romance Film, Black-And-White, Comedy

The Lady Eve is a 1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. The film is based on a story by Monckton Hoffe about a mismatched couple who meet on board a luxury liner. In 1994, The Lady Eve was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) is a beautiful con artist. Along with her equally larcenous father, "Colonel" Harrington (Charles Coburn) and his partner... MORE

The Lady Eve is a 1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. The film is based on a story by Monckton Hoffe about a mismatched couple who meet on board a luxury liner. In 1994, The Lady Eve was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) is a beautiful con artist. Along with her equally larcenous father, "Colonel" Harrington (Charles Coburn) and his partner Gerald (Melville Cooper), she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), the heir to the Pike Ale fortune ("The Ale That Won for Yale"). Pike is a woman-shy snake expert just returning from a year-long expedition up the Amazon. Though surrounded by ladies desperate for his attention, Charles is putty in Jean's hands. But even the best laid plans can go astray. First, Jean falls hard for Pike and shields him from her card sharp father. Then, when Pike's suspicious minder/valet Muggsy (William Demarest) discovers the truth about her and her father, Pike dumps her. Furious at being LESS