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Lady Eve, The (1941) Rank 4 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Lady Eve, The (1941) a score of 3.2436 out of 4

based on (11) reviews

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Empire Magazine [UK]

A wonderful picture set in a world of silly heirs and sharp-eyed dolls as remote from reality and yet wholly credible as that of P. G. Wodehouse. ...read the complete Lady Eve movie review at Empire Magazine [UK]

TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide

Sturges's chic, sly little masterpiece of comic seduction. Fonda, who is the son of a wealthy brewer (Pallette, whose slogan is "Pike's Pale, the Ale That Won for Yale"), is a rather shy and backward young man whose main interest is in snakes. As the ...read the complete Lady Eve movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide

Daily-Reviews.com (Stephen Cooke)

The Lady Eve has changed hands a few times, going from being a Paramount picture to becoming the property of MCA TV, which eventually became the modern-day Universal Studios empire. Through it all, print materials for this have remained in decent shape, ...read the complete Lady Eve movie review at Daily-Reviews.com (Stephen Cooke)

filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)

Remarkably sophisticated for a film 60 years old, The Lady Eve is another fine flick about life and love courtesy of Preston Sturges, this time with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda as unlikely lovers meeting aboard a cruise ship. He's an adventurer ...read the complete Lady Eve movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)

Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)

The Lady Eve is writer-director Preston Sturges' ode to romance as the greatest con game of all. Always the ironic satirist with a love of great characters and improbably wild scenarios, in The Lady Eve Sturges dreamt up a classical Hollywood screwball ...read the complete Lady Eve movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)

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