LADY EVE - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1941
• Genre: Comedy; Romance
• Plot: Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoonworthy romance. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck’s conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda’s nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to a brewery fortune. But when the con artist falls for her mark, her grift becomes a game of hearts—and she is determined to win it all. One in a string of matchless comedic marvels that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced as part of a dazzling 1940s run, this gender-flipped battle-of-wits farce is perhaps his most emotionally satisfying work, tempering its sparkling wit with a streak of tender poignancy supplied by the sensational Stanwyck at her peak.
• Cast: Barbara Stanwyck; Henry Fonda; Charles Coburn; Eugene Pallette; William Demarest; Eric Blore; Melville Cooper; Martha O'Driscoll; Janet Beecher; Robert Greig; Dora Clement; Luis Alberni; Abdullah Abbas; Norman Ainsley; Mary Akin; Sam Ash; Harry A. Bailey; Bobby Barber; Ambrose Barker; Dorothy Barrett; Wilson Benge; Wilda Bennett; Evelyn Beresford; Al Bridge; Tex Brodus; Jane Buckingham; Ken Carpenter; Marcelle Christopher; Jimmy Conlin; Georgie Cooper; Nell Craig; Madge Crane; Eva Dennison; Harry Depp; Helen Dickson; Pauline Drake; Robert Dudley; Franklyn Farnum; Betty Farrington; Bess Flowers; Ray Flynn; Almeda Fowler; Kenneth Gibson; Laura Gile; Alfred Hall; Eddie Hall; Sam Harris; John Hartley; Arthur Hoyt; Arthur Stuart Hull; Mitchell Ingraham; Sheldon Jett; Jack W. Johnston; Richard Kipling; Kay Koury; Mary MacLaren; Bertram Marburgh; Brenda Marshall; Wanda McKay; George Melford; Torben Meyer; Esther Michelson; Harold Miller; Bert Moorhouse; Frank Moran; Ella Neal; Joseph North; Barry Norton; Ernesto Palmese; Jean Phillips; Victor Potel; Frances Raymond; Jack Richardson; Suzanne Ridgway; Cyril Ring; Ronald R. Rondell; Harry Rosenthal; Reginald Sheffield; Larry Steers; Count Stefenelli; Bert Stevens; Julius Tannen; Joan Tours; Dorothy Vernon; Wally Walker; Robert Warwick; Pat West; Gayne Whitman; Florence Wix; Preston Sturges; Monckton Hoffe
• Director: Preston Sturges
• Runtime: 1:34
• Company: Paramount Pictures, Inc., EMKA, Ltd., Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie