The Lady Eve (1941) Movie Review

1. The Lady Eve movie review & film summary (1941) | Roger Ebert

  • She is a crook, and yet can be trusted. A seductress, and yet a pushover for romance. A gold digger, and yet she wants nothing from him. And he is a naive ...

  • If I were asked to name the single scene in all of romantic comedy that was sexiest and funniest at the same time, I would advise beginning at six seconds

2. The Lady Eve | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Critics Reviews The Lady Eve cinches Sturges as an important personality in films... It is highly entertaining movie fare -- the kind that keeps the box offices ...

  • It's no accident when wealthy Charles (Henry Fonda) falls for Jean (Barbara Stanwyck). Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

3. The Lady Eve review – card sharp Barbara Stanwyck steals the show

4. The Lady Eve (1941) directed by Preston Sturges • Reviews, film + cast

  • Putting Barbara Stanwyck in your movie is a cheat code to making it a down bad, "that brother's starving" classic. Henry Fonda making some of the most dazed ...

  • It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

5. The Lady Eve Movie Review - Common Sense Media

  • 18 aug 2024 · Classic '40s screwball comedy has greed, deception, smoking. Read Common Sense Media's The Lady Eve review, age rating, and parents guide.

  • Classic '40s screwball comedy has greed, deception, smoking. Read Common Sense Media's The Lady Eve review, age rating, and parents guide.

6. The Lady Eve (1941) recensie, Preston Sturges - Cinemagazine

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  • Recensie The Lady Eve (1941), een film van Preston Sturges met Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette

7. The Lady Eve Reviews - Metacritic

  • A frivolous masterpiece. Like Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve is a mixture of visual and verbal slapstick, and of high artifice and pratfalls. By Pauline Kael.

  • A trio of classy card sharks targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, until one of them falls in love with him.

8. The Lady Eve — Cineaste Magazine

  • excuse me, an ale empire. The entire film is an elaborate stunt, pulled by Sturges and Stanwyck on this poor sap of a rich boy. Stanwyck plays Jean Harrington, ...

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9. REVIEW: PRESTON STURGES' "THE LADY EVE" (1941) STARRING ...

  • The Lady Eve is considered one of the prime examples. It is full of charm, sophistication, and slapstick. The number of pratfalls performed by Henry Fonda— ...

10. [PDF] Review #18 : The Lady Eve (1941) - Ashley Wyman

  • Review #18 : The Lady Eve (1941). Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck ... Although the movie would be inconceivable without Henry Fonda, The Lady Eve is all.

11. Criterion Review: THE LADY EVE (1941) - Cinapse

  • 15 jul 2020 · It was such a blast revisiting The Lady Eve — Sturges' screenplay unfurls with fiendish glee through its brisk 90-minute runtime, and gives each ...

  • Preston Sturges’ screwball comedy’s still got it in a new 4K restoration It’s been a banner year for Criterion so far in 2020, whose work amidst the COVID-19 pandemic has continued unabated and with no less dedication to their releases. When The Lady Eve was announced this Spring, I was caught well off-guard; a podcast [...]

12. 'The Lady Eve' Indulges Preston Sturges' Humor - PopMatters

  • 18 aug 2020 · They leave each other on bitter terms once their cruise ship docks, setting in motion the second half of the film's story in which Jean, seeking ...

  • Preston Sturges' 'The Lady Eve' is layered with texture and substance draped in the gleeful prurience of a master of slapstick and romance.

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