The Lady Eve (1941)

Highly Recommended

USA
Feature Film
Director: Preston Sturges
Writers: Preston Sturges, Monckton Hoffe
Cinematographer: Victor Milner
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore

Although far from being Sturges’s best work, this superior romantic comedy in which Stanwyck’s comely conwoman, against her better judgement, falls for Fonda’s rich, naïve mark, is, with its expert performances and unpredictable scripting, head and shoulders above most of its competition. Iain.Stott