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