The Lady Eve

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Barbara Stanwyck stands beside Henry Fonda, who is seated on the floor in a white tuxedo, as two men assist him in a formal dining room scene from The Lady Eve.

The Lady Eve

film by Sturges [1941]

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- 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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  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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- romantic comedy
  Origin
  …Bringing Up Baby (1938), and The Lady Eve (1941), in which Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, and other Hollywood leading men exchanged double entendres and pratfalls with gifted, glamorous comedians such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert. Overseen by studio directors such as
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  …Bringing Up Baby (1938), and The Lady Eve (1941), in which Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, and other Hollywood leading men exchanged double entendres and pratfalls with gifted, glamorous comedians such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck and Claudette Colbert. Overseen by studio directors such as
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