The Lady Eve

film by Sturges [1941]

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discussed in biography
- In Preston Sturges: Films of the early 1940s
  The Lady Eve (1941) was Sturges’s first true “A” production, and he was equal to the task, creating a tart romantic-comedy classic that starred Barbara Stanwyck as a con artist who first fleeces and then falls for a naive herpetologist (Henry Fonda).
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Fonda
- In Henry Fonda: Stardom: The Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts, and 12 Angry Men
  …Davis, and the romantic comedies The Lady Eve (1941), with Barbara Stanwyck, and The Big Street (1942), with Lucille Ball.
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Stanwyck
- In Barbara Stanwyck
  …Remember the Night (1940) and The Lady Eve (1941); and the westerns Union Pacific (1939) and Cattle Queen of Montana (1954). Other notable films were Meet John Doe (1941), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Clash by Night (1952), and Executive Suite (1954).
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