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Lady Eve, The (1941) Rank 5 Reviews

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

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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)

Crazy for Cinema (Lisa Skrzyniarz)

Stanwyck steps up to the plate in this screwball comedy starring unlikely love interest Henry Fonda. This is a solid genre entry with good chemistry between the leads, witty dialogue and fairly funny physical gags. The plot revolves around Stanwyck and ...read the complete Lady Eve movie review at Crazy for Cinema (Lisa Skrzyniarz)

Movie Mirror

In the Amazon Charles Pike (Henry Fonda) is given a snake and says good-bye. On a ship Jane Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) and her father Harry (Charles Coburn) aim to fleece rich Charles. Jane sees Charles ignoring women while reading and trips him. She ...read the complete Lady Eve movie review at Movie Mirror

moviediva, for the last word on classic films

When the American Film Institute published a list of the 100 Greatest Films, a most outrageous omission was the films of Preston Sturges. He was the first screenwriter to direct his own scripts. The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, ...read the complete Lady Eve movie review at moviediva, for the last word on classic films

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

If I were asked to name the single scene in all of romantic comedy that was sexiest and funniest at the same time, I would advise beginning at six seconds past the 20-minute mark in Preston Sturges' "The Lady Eve,'' and watching as Barbara Stanwyck toys ...read the complete Lady Eve movie review at Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

"It's just not simply an hilarious and witty battle of the sexes farce but amazingly has a tender romantic side." ...read the complete Lady Eve movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

Edwin Jahiel

Directed by Preston Sturges. Bookworm and opheologist (snake lover and scientist - note the progression from worm to snake) Henry Fonda, an ale millionaire's son, has been "up the Amazon for a year" (note the echoes of jail or solitary) and is out of ...read the complete Lady Eve movie review at Edwin Jahiel

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