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NOTE TO FIRST-TIMERS: This event is not a screening of this film. This event is a group Zoom conversation on this film, after you've streamed or rented and watched it on your own during the week. Check out the HOW THIS WORKS section below. We look forward to having you join us!

# The Lady Eve

  • 1941
  • 1h 34m
  • A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.
  • Director
  • Preston Sturges
  • Writers
  • Monckton Hoffe
  • Preston Sturges
  • Stars
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Henry Fonda
  • Charles Coburn
  • HOW THIS WORKS
  • To find out where to stream or rent The Lady Eve online, click the link to The Lady Eve Watch on your own during the week and then join us for our Zoom conversation Saturday, April 11 at 7:20pm. - 7:30pm. A Zoom link will appear to the right of your screen once you RSVP. (NOTE: If you can’t get that link to work, copy and paste it into the search bar of your browser.)

Roger Ebert - November 23, 1997
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 with Henry Fonda’s hair in an unbroken shot that lasts three minutes and 51 seconds.

Criterion Reflections
n the guise of a winsome, laugh-out-loud funny and impeccably executed romantic comedy, The Lady Eve delivers a fascinating text on the nature of male and female relationships. Richly loaded with crafty symbolism and memorable dialog, brilliant performances and ingenious plot twists, it's an easy film to underestimate if one hasn't actually seen it or only glanced at it indifferently while it showed on TV. In a collection of cinematic milestones, I think it's fair to put The Lady Eve among the upper ranks of Hollywood productions, comedies and American films in general.

Los Angeles Times: Kenneth Turan
Preston Sturges was arguably the most gifted writer-director of sound comedies Hollywood has ever produced, and this Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda standoff is his masterpiece.

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