The Lady Eve

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Classic screwball battle-of-the-sexes Sturges that boasts an impeccable lead pairing of Fonda as a herpetologist Professor newly returning from studies in the Amazon and con artist Stanwyck out to get him. When he rejects her advances she disguises herself as Lady Eve Sidwich, flower of English society, and is determined on revenge.

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Article - "Preston Sturges" by David Parkinson
Friday 1st April 2005

Few film-makers have struck a patch as purple as the one that Preston Sturges enjoyed between 1940 and 1944. The pictures he produced in this period have become the benchmark for US screen comedy and provide the link between the sophisticated conceits of Ernst Lubits...  View article in full

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