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The Lady Eve

1941 · Film · 97 min

  • Comedy
  • Romance

Plot

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.

About The Lady Eve

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 an ocean liner. Regarded amongst the greatest films of all time, The Lady Eve was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994 by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

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Cast

  • Barbara StanwyckJean Harrington
  • Henry FondaCharles Pike
  • Charles Coburn'Colonel' Harrington
  • Eugene PalletteHorace Pike
  • William DemarestMuggsy
  • Eric BloreSir Alfred McGlennan Keith
  • Melville CooperGerald
  • Martha O'DriscollMartha
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