The Lady Eve (1941)

7.7	Listal rating
8.2	IMDB rating

Romance (4), 1940s (4), Comedy (3), 1941 (2), Ship (2), Usa (2), Snake (2), Forgiveness (2), Con Artist (2), Poker (1), Bride And Groom (1), Card Playing (1), Father Daughter Relationship (1), Shipdeck (1), Cockroach (1), Cruise (1), Fear Of Snakes (1), Dressmaker (1), Flowers (1), Cheater (1)

Description

Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms. To get back at him, Jean disguises herself as an English lady, and comes back to tease and torment him.

Directed by

Preston Sturges

Starring (View all) :

Barbara Stanwyck

Eugenia 'Jean' Harrington

Henry Fonda

Charles 'Charlie' Poncefort Pike

Charles Coburn

'Colonel' Harry Harrington

Eugene Pallette

Horace Pike

William Demarest

Ambrose 'Muggsy' Murgatroyd

Eric Blore

Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith

Gerald

Martha - the Maid

Janet Pike

Burrows - Pike's Butler

Written by (View all) :

Monckton Hoffe

(story)

Preston Sturges

writer

Videos


	The Lady Eve Preston Sturges (1941) Two good scenes from the otherwise insipid movie.

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